News you can use to avoid actually having to open a newspaper.
- The Obama Administration plans to overhaul the Department of Justice.
- The BBC profiled Jerusalem’s new mayor, Nir Barkat.
- Doctors in Germany appear to have cured HIV in one patient via bone marrow transplant.
- A Kuwaiti court ordered the country’s stock market to close.
- The normally peaceful streets of Bogota, Columbia hosted violent riots in response to a perceived financial scam.
- Barack Obama’s Secret Service code name: "Renegade." Not bad.
- Germany is in a full-on recession. Uh-oh.
- CNN.com was able to work 9/11 into a headline about the unemployment rate.
- Alaska’s natural gas supply could be part of the solution for curbing America’s dependence on foreign oil. Plus, it would get Sarah Palin back in the news.
- Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell died on Wednesday in Portland, OR.