etas and the Gulf cartel.Also Tuesday, federal prosecutors announced that a former
high-ranking federal police official has been sentenced to 10 years in prison
for helping the Sinaloa drug cartel.The case of former regional police security
coordinator Javier Herrera Valles had been a scandal and for some a
cause celebre, in part because he was arrested after having publicly accused
some of his superiors of corruption or incompetence.The Attorney General's Office said
in a statement Tuesday that Herrera Valles had been convicted of organized
crime charges for aiding the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico's most powerful gang.He
was arrested in 2008, around the same time Mexico arrested a number
of high-ranking officials for collaborating with drug cartels.
illion.Those increases, I think, are dramatic," Reichert told Fox News.A longtime Democratic
tax lawyer says royalties, or passive income are a common tool for
nonprofit groups to earn revenues, and pointed to the Sierra Club as
another beneficiary of arms-length arrangements."That is the classic royalty situation where the
Sierra Club in effect simply makes its mailing lists available to other
charities in return for royalty," said attorney Bill Josephson. "I don't have
any problem with that, nor does anybody else."But Republicans say AARP's deal
with United HealthCare is different, and in the letter to the IRS,
they point to what they say are several examples of AARPs daily
influence over the business, including its authority over United's operating plan and
its ability to "approve, modify on a line-by-line basis, or provide specific
direction to United."Josephson said if thats indeed the case, "the kinds of
hands-on relationships (AARP) has with its supposedl
en reported since 2004," the group says on its website.According to the
foundation, the ballot measure would update the city's code to require anyone
"directly engaged in the creation of adult films" and issued a film
permit by the city "to maintain engineering and work practice controls, including
the provision of and required use of condoms, sufficient to protect employees
from exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials consistent with state
law."The proposed ordinance would also require that film permits be issued on
the condition of compliance with the requirement and would require the city
to charge permit applicants a feel to cover the cost of periodic
inspections.
on and Beyonce. In tabloid land it is always better to report
it wrong than report it last.The thing that I always joke about
with these pregnancy stories is that eventually it will almost always be
right. It just may be 20 months later, says the founder and
editor of tabloid policing site GossipCop.com, Michael Lewittes.So who were the most
oft pregnant, not pregnant stars of 2011?Jennifer AnistonIn October Star magazine told
us that Jennifer Aniston was secretly married to beau Justin Theroux and
that the pair wed in a secret ceremony because the actress waspregnant!
This came just a couple of weeks after Aniston herself told the
Hollywood Foreign Press, No, were not pregnant. Its just I quit
smoking, so Ive gained a couple of pounds.From October until December Aniston,
who is partial to tight dresses, showed no sign of a baby
bump, but Star refused to give up the vicarious pregnancy narrative and
as recently as December 14th the mag told us that Aniston wa
tiple coronal mass ejection arrivals," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space
Weather Prediction Center wrote in an update Tuesday (Dec. 27). "R1 (Minor)
radio blackouts are expected until 31 December."Geomagnetic storms can also trigger dramatic
aurora displays, which are also known as the northern and southern lights.
So skywatchers at higher latitudes may want to look up after sunset
over the next few days.The sun's recent eruptions are part of a
pattern.After remaining surprisingly quiet from 2005 through 2010, our star has come
alive in 2011, spouting off numerous powerful flares and CMEs. An August
flare, for example, was the strongest one seen in more than four
years.Most experts expect such outbursts to continue over the next few years.
Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle, and scientists think
the current one known as Solar Cycle 24 will peak
in 2013.* The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History* Amazing New
Sun
has said he wouldn't rule it out automatically.Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman
of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, praised Nelson for being a "loyal
public servant to the people of Nebraska."She also said she's expecting Republicans
will have "a very divisive primary in the state, which will provide
an opportunity for Democrats to remain competitive" in the state.Dec. 27, 2011:
Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., seen here in this 2009 photo, will retire
from the U.S. Senate, sources confirmed to Fox News.
