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- President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have teamed up with Jeremy Lin, Eli Manning, David Beckham and other sports stars on a public service announcement for the prevention of dating violence and sexual assault against women.
The PSA... is part of Biden's "1is2Many" (One is Too Many) initiative and is directed at young men because, according to the White House, women between the ages of 16 and 24 experience the highest rates of relationship violence.See More - The Supreme Court unanimously threw out fines and sanctions Thursday against broadcasters who violated the Federal Communications Commission policy regulating curse words and nudity on broadcast television.
STORY: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57457836/supreme-court-throws-out-tv-cursing-sanctions/ - JUST IN TO CBS News: Commerce Secretary John Bryson resigned his post Wednesday, less than two weeks after suffering a seizure connected to three traffic accidents in southern California.
In a letter to President Obama, Bryson said his June 9 seizure could be a distraction from his performance and the nation "would be better served by a change in leadership of the department." - Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison has reached a deal to buy 98 percent of the island of Lanai from its current owner, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said Wednesday. The land's owner, Castle & Cooke Inc., has filed a transfer application with the state's public utilities commission, Abercrombie said. (Via CBS MoneyWatch)
- The Obama administration has rejected requests from The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union seeking information about its "targeted killing" program against suspected terrorists, saying the release of the requested documen...ts would harm national security.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Times and the ACLU sought records regarding the legal justifications for the alleged U.S. government killing of U.S. citizens and others associated with al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.See More - There is an estimated $1 trillion gap between what's been promised state and city employees nationwide, and money on hand to meet their retirement obligations.
"In good times and bad, the states were kicking the can down the road," said one researcher.
Can this problem be solved, or will the millions of Americans who have paid into these plans be left in the lurch?
via CBS Evening News - Temperatures climbed toward the high 90s along America's Eastern Coast on Wednesday as a hot spell heralded the official start of summer, with people wilting at graduation ceremonies, students trying to learn in suffocating classrooms and authorities warning folks to check on elderly neighbors.
- A jury deliberating a sex abuse trial involving a high-ranking official in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has been ordered to deliberate further to overcome a stalemate on four of the five charges.
Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina told jurors she might let them rehear portions of testimony from the two accusers if it would help them reach consensus.
