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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

U.S. to probe pretend tweets of Obama death

Fox account hacked

The Secret Service said Monday it'll investigate the hacking of Fox's political Twitter account over updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

Hackers broke into the FoxNewsPolitics account early Monday, leaving a series of six tweets reporting that Obama had been shot to death in Iowa by an unknown gunman.

In a statement posted on its internet web site, Fox News known as the tweets "malicious" and "false."

The president celebrated the July four vacation at the White House.

Fishing trip disaster
1 dead, seven missing when boat mishap

A boat carrying twenty seven U.S. tourists on a vacation fishing trip capsized in an surprising storm early Sunday within the Gulf of California. One man died, and 7 still were still missing Monday.

Mexican officers said late Monday they were considering calling off the rummage around for survivors and turning their efforts to recovering bodies.

Slap at opponents
Chavez's come surprises Venezuela

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez created a surprise come to Caracas from Cuba, coming back home for the primary time since undergoing surgery for cancer over 3 weeks ago.

His come Monday was seen as a slap at opponents who had been pressuring him to relinquish power briefly.

Caylee Anthony case
Toddler mom's fate currently up to the jury

Jurors didn't reach a verdict Monday within the Casey Anthony murder trial when deliberating for nearly six hours on the prosecution's claim that the Orlando girl killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee as a result of the toddler interrupted her partying and love life.

Caylee disappeared within the summer of 2008. The case has dominated CNN's Headline News.

Kosovo talks
Serbian minister: we wish Balkan stability

Serbia's foreign minister said Monday the capture of former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic and progress in Kosovo talks replicate his country's want for a stable Balkans, not pressure from the ecu Union.

Vuk Jeremic said Serbia is prepared to figure on resolving the impasse over Kosovo -- that declared independence 3 years ago -- though the govt remains resolved to not cross lines that might mean recognizing an freelance state.

Mladic was thrown out of court at The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday for disruptive behavior, leaving the court to enter a not-guilty plea on his behalf to charges that he oversaw unspeakable acts of genocide throughout the 1992-95 Balkans conflict.

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