Wolf leads 91 – 7 percent among Democrats and 53 – 39 percent among independent voters, while Gov. Corbett has a lackluster 66 – 28 percent lead among Republicans, the independent.
Detroit, key creditor reach bankruptcy deal
ALJAZEERA: Detroit has reached a tentative deal to pay a key creditor 26 cents on the dollar and offer it valuable leases, a move that that could clear the biggest hurdle in the city’s plan to reduce its debts and emerge from bankruptcy protection.
Majority in China expect war with Japan
FINANCIAL TIMES: …The Genron/China Daily survey found that 53 per cent of Chinese respondents – and 29 per cent of the Japanese polled – expect their nations to go to war. The poll was released ahead of the second anniversary of Japan’s move to nationalise some of the contested Senkaku Islands in the East China […]
Exposition of captured weapons
From 1943 to 1948 there was a permanent exposition of the captured German weapons in Moscow’s Gorky Park. I lived across the street from the Park and this expo was the favorite playground of my boyhood. I could be one of the boys on this photograph.
NewsLanc looks back at a decade of service
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Poll: People around the globe sour on economic recovery
USA TODAY: …Most people in advanced economies (64%) and emerging ones (59%) describe their country’s economic condition as bad, while 51% of people in developing countries call it good…
World figures call for legal regulation of drug use
ALJAZEERA: Otto Pérez Molina, the president of Guatemala, floated an audacious idea last December. His government was considering legalizing the production of opium poppy — the source of morphine, which is the principal ingredient of heroin — as an alternative to combating drug-fueled bloodshed in Central America, where the number of violent deaths today mirrors […]
Trump Entertainment Resorts files for bankruptcy
PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY: Trump Entertainment Resorts, which operates two casinos in Atlantic City, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday.
NCAA further reduces sanctions against Penn State.
The NCAA has lifted the post-season bowl ban on Penn State’s football program and is allowing the team to offer the maximum number of athletic scholarships next season, further paring down punishing sanctions against the school.
Iraq crisis: Parliament swears in unity government
BBC: Iraq’s parliament has approved a new government with Sunni and Kurdish deputy prime ministers, as it seeks to tackle Islamic State (IS) militants who have seized large parts of the country…. US Secretary of State John Kerry praised the inclusive nature of the new government and said he would travel to the Middle East […]
UPenn named best college nationwide for 2015
USA TODAY: …UPenn ranks first with a six to one student to faculty ratio and a “high earnings boost” — meaning grads of particular majors overall earn more than those of the same major nationwide. UPenn snagged Harvard’s first-place ranking for 2014…
NCAA seeks to end legal challenges to Endowment Act
In a motion filed Friday, the NCAA asked a Commonwealth Court judge to allow the organization to withdraw statements made in a previous filing that led a judge to question the validity of the Consent Decree, which laid out the terms and conditions of the fine and other sanctions against Penn State
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
“Heroin is now the number one abused drug in Lancaster County,” said John Burkhart who heads the county-wide drug task force. “It’s the most dangerous drug and it’s everywhere, in every single town and borough in Lancaster.”
Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: …But what if, instead, you took a test on Day 1 that was just as comprehensive as the final but not a replica? You would bomb the thing, for sure. You might not understand a single question. And yet as disorienting as that experience might feel, it would alter how you […]