While the rest of the world rants and raves over seeing a photo of OBL, the important news is sliding under the radar. Is this creating a distraction by choice or just business as usual by the whitehouse?
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications rose 43,000 to 474,000 in the week ended April 30, the third increase in four weeks. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose for the fourth straight week to 431,250.
After being handed a lifeline by U.S. taxpayers, bipartisan lawmakers are meeting Thursday to try hashing out the beginnings of a budget plan that can draw enough support to clear the way for increasing the nation's debt ceiling.
More Than 1,300 Guns Were Bought Illegally by Suspect Buyers Under ATF's 'Gunrunner' Program. It is the closest thing to a smoking gun investigators have in their probe of Project Gunrunner -- a document that shows U.S. officials’ allowed criminals to buy 1,318 guns worth nearly $1 million even after they suspected the buyers were working for Mexican drug cartels and the agency's effort to stop the guns had "yielded little or no results."
(taken from various news agency headlines)
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