By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2011
Acting Solicitor Gen. Neal Katyal, in an extraordinary admission of misconduct, took to task one of his predecessors for hiding evidence and deceiving the Supreme Court in two of the major cases in its history: the World War II rulings that upheld the detention of more than 110,000 Japanese Americans.
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske in Cairo, Babylon and Beyond blog @ Los Angeles Times, May 31, 20
A senior Egyptian general told CNN Tuesday that officials performed "virginity checks" on women arrested during the uprising that led to former President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the first time the authorities have admitted they performed such tests during the revolution....
By Steve Lohr, New York Times Business, May 29/30, 2011
Maybe Japan is not as crucial to the global supply chain as those first weeks after the earthquake made it seem.....
“The global supply chain has been able to weather the storm,” said Hau Lee, a professor at Stanford University’s graduate school of business. Barring further unexpected shocks, Mr. Lee said, “This has not been as bad as most people initially worried it might be.”
TUCSON — Obama administration officials are sharpening their crackdown on the hiring of illegal immigrants by focusing increasingly tough criminal charges on employers while moving away from criminal arrests of the workers themselves.
The political opposition blames President Ali Abdullah Saleh for losing control of Zinjibar; some even allege it's a set-up. But others fear Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has taken advantage of months of protests to gain ground.
The NYT covers the Saudi-led counter revolution, starting with a lede that is a hodgepodge of bombastic adjectives and mixed metaphors:....OK, now that my writerly criticism is out of the way, to the meat of the story:....
Thousands of immigrants lured to Spain by dreams of a better life now live in encampments in the woods with little food and unsafe water
By Suzanne Daley, New York Times, May 25/26, 2011
PALOS DE LA FRONTERA, Spain— Back home in Gambia, Amadou Jallow was, at 22, a lover of reggae who had just finished college and had landed a job teaching science in a high school. But Europe beckoned.....
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2011
Chinese authorities fearful of unrest try to smother reports of three bomb blasts set off by a farmer who was apparently upset about his house being demolished. The bomber and one other person are killed.
By Jennifer Steinhauser, New York Times, May 25, 2011
WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours after their surprising victory in the race for a vacant House seat, Democrats forced Senate Republicans on Wednesday to vote yes or no on a bill that would reshape Medicare, signaling their intent to use the issue as a blunt instrument against Republicans through the 2012 election.
By Ray Rivera and Carlotta Gall, New York Times, May 23/24, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban said Monday that their reclusive leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, was still very much alive and “leading the mujahedeen in all aspects,” disputing reports from inside Afghanistan’s intelligence agency indicating that he had been killed in Pakistan last week.[...]
By Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2011
The declines are the biggest since 2008 and are expected to continue. An oil analyst says it should fuel concerns that Wall Street speculation drove the recent run-up.
BRUSSELS — Five days after the United States imposed sanctions on Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, the European Union followed suit on Monday, overcoming internal divisions on whether to target the Syrian leader over the bloody crackdown against protesters in his country....
