On top of everything else, this: Fox has renewed Glee for not one, but two more seasons. Two more seasond! Of Glee! Which ran out of storylines like three years ago! That is absolutely outrageous.…Just when you think things can't get worse, there's more Glee. Two more years' worth of Glee.
Atlantic Wire
Dunkin’ Donuts kept the lights on during chaos
At officials’ request, coffee chain stayed open during lockdown to aid police, emergency responders…
Boston Globe
The privately funded Digital Public Library of America was launched Thursday and provides users with access to the digital archives of institutions ranging from national the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution to local historical societies.
Among 2.4 million works, visitors to the site, dp.la, can find a Boston Public Library picture of Babe Ruth in a Red Sox jersey taken in 1915 or more than32,000 maps from collector David Rumsey in San Francisco.
Boston.com
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The alchemists of Wall Street are at it again.
The banks that created risky amalgams of mortgages and loans during the boom — the kind that went so wrong during the bust — are busily reviving the same types of investments that many thought were gone for good. Once more, arcane-sounding financial products like collateralized debt obligations are being minted on Wall Street. …
“All of this seems like a fairly quick round trip,” said Manus Clancy, a managing director at Trepp, a research firm that focuses on commercial real estate. “You are seeing a fair number of sins being forgiven.”
New York Times
Remember the good old days, when the good men and women of America got into politics to help serve their country, and not for the money?
21st Century Wire
"The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared" sounds like the whole story, but it isn't. We love how it spirals a little bit out of control, and lands on more funny moments than we care to recall.
It is unclear how many of the 1.4 million homeowners who were mailed the first round of payments covered under the foreclosure settlement have had problems with their checks. But housing advocates from California to New York and even regulators say that in recent days frustrated homeowners have bombarded them with complaints and questions.
New York Times
Brent crude dropped towards $98 per barrel on Wednesday, weighed by the prospect of sluggish fuel demand in top consumers the United States and China.
More bleak economic news came courtesy of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which trimmed projections for this year and next - implying limited upside for oil demand growth.
Reuters
Senate Democrats are trying desperately to round up a bipartisan coalition in advance of a critical round of gun-control votes Wednesday afternoon, as fence-sitting Republicans began to peel away and new polling showed ebbing public support for tightening gun laws.
Fox News
The want ads posted by the anonymous buyer on Armslist.com, a sprawling free classified ads Web site for guns, telegraphed urgency.…
President Obama’s offer to trim Social Security benefits has perplexed and angered Democrats, but GOP leaders are embracing the proposal and rushing to jump-start a debate that will delve even more deeply into the touchy topic of federal spending on the elderly.
Washington Post
Though Obama cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the motive for the attack, a senior administration official said it was "clearly an act of terror and will be approached as act of terror."…
House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, spoke to reporters outside the House chamber late Monday.
"It has all the hallmarks of an act of terrorism," he said. "The White House is not calling it an act of terrorism yet. I am. We just don't know if it's foreign or domestic."
Republicans are expected to question FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg about why the agency didn’t take more forceful action against NECC before the outbreak.
Wind power in the U.S. is doing well, and the country has only just begun to tap its massive potential…with a year-over-year growth in capacity of 28% coming from 6,700 new wind turbines, bringing the country's total to about 45,100.
Treehugger
MANY Americans assume that the chemicals in their shampoos, detergents and other consumer products have been thoroughly tested and proved to be safe.
This assumption is wrong.…
New York Times
