Hello NikkiNewsNetters! I'm trying an experiment over on Google+. I created a page called "Network XXIII News" (link) with the thought of having a collective news posting community like this one ( Read more... )

The People vs. Goldman Sachs. Shortest version: Goldman Sachs helped create the financial crisis, they knew they were doing it, they decided to make a profit on it, and then they lied to Congress about it. Don't blame this one on Bush - the financial deregulation started under Clinton, and the current Department of Justice has curiously decided not ( Read more... )

European corporations, many of whom are the world's biggest polluters, are giving giant contributions to U.S. Senate candidates.

In Toronto, if a police officer stops you on the street and demands to see your ID, you don't have to show it to him.

Well, except if you're in the G20 zone, where a newly instituted law means that if you don't show your ID you could go to jail for months. The Toronto Star tells the story of a man who was, to his shock, arrested on the sidewalk ( Read more... )

According to Physicians for Human Rights, the CIA experimented on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. This is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, among many other laws. Groups such as The National Religious Campaign Against Torture are demanding an investigation, as is an editorial in the New York Times. Meanwhile, Post columnists are pointing to comments ( Read more... )

team builds and installs functioning synthetic genome in bacterial cell

functioning glucose biocells installed in rats (they run off glucose supplied by the rat's body)

slashdot notes: gene therapy restores sight to the blind. i hadn't realized gene therapy was quite that reliable or effective. nifty.

When Scott Brown, Republican from Massachusetts, was elected, many conservatives trumpeted that the Democrats would never be able to get anything passed in the Senate again, as they did not have a filibuster-proof majority.

Yesterday Scott Brown voted to advance the jobs bill in the Senate, breaking a Republican-led filibuster. While other ( Read more... )

Quick hit from the Nikki News Net International Canadian Edition.

Federal Conservative MP and Cabinet Minister John Baird outed by Pamela Taylor, who is running for the Ontario provincial seat vacated by (actually openly gay) MPP George Smitherman. This happened in a morning interview on the CBC with outgoing host Andy Barrie.

ANDY BARRIE: Can ( Read more... )

Republican Scott Brown handily won the US Senate Seat in Massachusetts that had been held by Ted Kennedy for over 40 years, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley by a wide margin.

While voting was still going on, advisers to Martha Coakley said that they were going to lose because DC Democrats didn't do enough to support her. The Democratic Party ( Read more... )