AP Source: Jackson's will puts assets in trust - Yahoo! News

AP Source: Jackson's will puts assets in trust - Yahoo! News: "Michael Jackson's will gives guardianship over his children to the singer's mother and leaves all his assets in a trust fund, a person with knowledge of the document told The Associated Press on Tuesday."

Iraqis celebrate US pullback but bombing kills 27 - Yahoo! News

Iraqis celebrate US pullback but bombing kills 27 - Yahoo! News: "Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad's background track. Left alone to protect the capital Tuesday were thousands of Iraqi troops and police manning checkpoints, with army tanks deployed at potential trouble spots and convoys of pickup trucks with machine guns roaming the streets."

AP Exclusive: Insomniac Jackson begged for drug - Yahoo! News

AP Exclusive: Insomniac Jackson begged for drug - Yahoo! News: "Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a nutritionist who was working with the singer as he prepared his comeback bid."

Politico ignores Roberts, Alito record in claiming Ricci "could tarnish Sotomayor" http://mediamatters.org/items/200906300006 A June 30 Politico article about the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano -- which reversed by a 5-4 margin a decision joined by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor -- promoted the myth that a Supreme Court reversal is somehow unusual. The article bore the headline, "Ruling could tarnish Sotomayor." The article itself, by staff writer Josh Gerstein, asserted that the Supreme Court's action "seemed to deal a blow to President Barack Obama's pending nominee for the high court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor." At no point in the article did Gerstein note that the Supreme Court reversed Justice Samuel Alito on at least four occasions when he was an appellate court judge and that the court also reversed a decision Chief Justice John Roberts joined as an appellate court judge. Gerstein also did not note that it is not unusual for the Supreme Court to reverse federal appellate court decisions. In his book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Doubleday, 2007), New Yorker staff writer and CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote that, in 1992, O'Connor had "excoriated" the "logic, approach, and conclusions" of her eventual successor, Alito, in her opinion for the abortion-rights case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Moreover, Alito identified four more reversals -- in each of which O'Connor voted with the majority reversing Alito -- in his Supreme Court nomination questionnaire: Rompilla v. Horn, 355 F.3d 233 (3d Cir. 2004), cert. granted 542 U.S. 966, and rev'd 125 S.Ct. 2456 (2005) Thomas v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec., 294 F.3d 568 (3d Cir. 2002), cert. granted 537 U.S. 1187, and rev'd 540 U.S. 20 (2003) Coss v. Lackawanna County D.A., 204 F.3d 453 (3d Cir. 2000) (en banc), cert. granted 531 U.S. 923 (2000), and rev'd 532 U.S. 394 (2001) Fiore v. White, 149 F.3d 221 (3d Cir. 1998), cert. granted 526 U.S. 1038, question certified 528 U.S. 23 (1999), certified question answered 562 Pa. 634 (2000), and rev'd 531 U.S. 225 (2001) Alito was reversed unanimously in Thomas. Additionally, as an appeals court judge, Roberts was a member of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which, in its July 2005 unanimous ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, allowed a military commission to try Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Guantánamo Bay detainee. Roberts was confirmed as chief justice several months later, in September 2005. Then, in 2006, the Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's decision on a 5-3 ruling. Moreover, data compiled by SCOTUSblog since 2004 show that the Supreme Court has reversed more than 67 percent of the federal appeals court cases it considered each year, except 2007, when it reversed federal appeals court cases 61 percent of the time. During the term that concluded June 29, the Supreme Court reversed outright 74.7 percent of the federal appellate cases it considered. From the June 30 Politico article: In awarding a victory Monday to a group of white firefighters in New Haven who argued that they were denied promotions on account of their race, the U.S. Supreme Court also seemed to deal a blow to President Barack Obama's pending nominee for the high court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who earlier had ruled against the firefighters. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a court split 5-4 along ideological lines, reversed an appeals court ruling Sotomayor joined last year that rejected a claim that the City of New Haven discriminated against white firefighters by throwing out a promotional exam after all the African-American firefighters who took it scored too poorly to be promoted. "Whatever the city's ultimate aim -- however well intentioned or benevolent it might have seemed -- the city made its employment decision because of race. The city rejected the test results solely because the higher-scoring candidates were white," Kennedy wrote on behalf of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Contact: The Politico E-mail: tblake@thepolitico.com You can help support our work; become a volunteer media monitor, or donate to Media Matters for America.

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Plane with 153 crashes off Comoros, child rescued - Yahoo! News

Plane with 153 crashes off Comoros, child rescued - Yahoo! News: "A passenger jet carrying 153 people from Yemen crashed into the Indian Ocean in bad weather early Tuesday while trying to land at the island nation of Comoros. Search teams rescued a child from the sea, officials said, but there was no word on other survivors."

Battle to control Jackson's fortune begins - omg! news on Yahoo!

Battle to control Jackson's fortune begins - omg! news on Yahoo!: "His mother took the first step Monday when she petitioned the Superior Court of California to be named the administrator of the late singer's estate. Katherine Jackson said in the filing she was acting to ensure Michael Jackson's three children are the beneficiaries."

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CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News: "Jackson's mom gets guardianship of his kids"

Rockets could lose Yao for season, if not longer - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

Rockets could lose Yao for season, if not longer - NBA - Yahoo! Sports: "As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming’s(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets. The fear isn’t that he’s just lost for next season, but longer."

Obama says Honduran ouster was 'not legal' - Yahoo! News

Obama says Honduran ouster was 'not legal' - Yahoo! News: "President Barack Obama says the weekend ouster of Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya was a 'not legal' coup and that he remains the country's president."

Iran says partial recount shows election valid - Yahoo! News

Iran says partial recount shows election valid - Yahoo! News: "Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media."

Bernard Madoff gets maximum 150 years in prison - Yahoo! News

Bernard Madoff gets maximum 150 years in prison - Yahoo! News: "A federal judge rejected Bernard Madoff's plea for leniency Monday, sentencing the 71-year-old swindler to spend the rest of his life in prison for an 'extraordinarily evil' fraud that took a 'staggering toll' on thousands of victims."

Parents file papers to administer Jackson estate - omg! news on Yahoo!

Parents file papers to administer Jackson estate - omg! news on Yahoo!: "Michael Jackson's mother asked a Superior Court judge on Monday to name her administrator of her late son's estate so she can ensure the King of Pop's three children are its beneficiaries."

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