• Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for California-based Current TV, were jailed for illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labour.

    BBC: US citizens held by North Korea

  • California's current system is a tax-and-spender's delight.

    FORBES: The Economy? There Is Hope!

  • In northern California alone, the current power deficit averages 2, 000 to 3, 000 megawatts per hour, according to the California Independent System Operator, the agency set up to monitor the state's power grid.

    CNN: The California power quagmire

  • Finally, in just the minute we have left, Jon Davidson, I wanted to ask about what you think this means, this current situation in California means nationally.

    NPR: California Gay Leaders Assess Marriage Defeat

  • California will bounce back from its current malaise: its industries and its labour force are too strong for it not to.

    ECONOMIST: California on the couch | The

  • "If we want to win in bluish-getting-bluer states like California, we have to change the current perceptions of who we are, " he said.

    NPR: Paul: GOP Needs To Become A 'Bigger' Party

  • Given that California voters have twice voted to approve the current process, a repeal seem unlikely.

    FORBES: To End Gridlock, Start by Ending Gerrymandering

  • On Wednesday, he said those investigations were continually obstructed by the current chairman, Henry Waxman of California.

    NPR: House Panel Grills GSA Chief on Republican Briefing

  • The Palo Alto, California-based vendor will work with both current and newly named partners in these endeavors.

    CNN: Big names plan to pre-install Sun's StarOffice

  • The current economic and budgetary climate in California, and Sacramento specifically, are certainly not ideal for new construction of sports facilities.

    FORBES: Kings For Another Year, But Are Sacramento's Arena Hopes One Large Court Jester?

  • The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, led by former California Treasurer Phil Angelides, has already called current and former executives of Citigroup, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America in three previous hearings this year.

    FORBES: Next Up In Washington: Bear Stearns

  • Meanwhile, university officials in California voted earlier this month to overhaul their current admissions system, which guarantees a student a place at a UC campus if he ranks in the top 4% of his high-school class or in the top 12.5% of the graduating class statewide.

    ECONOMIST: Affirmative action

  • It is not surprising that Asians and Hispanics dominate the current crop of bills: they are California's two fastest-growing groups.

    ECONOMIST: History in California

  • The six states with the highest current per-gallon charges--California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Michigan and Indiana--all levy taxes based on a percentage of the price of gasoline, meaning when the cost of gas goes up, the state's tax take per gallon goes up too.

    FORBES: State Gas Tax Guzzlers

  • Similar concerns apply today, and Attorney General Eric Holder's recent announcement that the Drug Enforcement Administration will not raid medical marijuana distributors in California suggests an openness in the Obama administration to rethinking current practice.

    CNN: Commentary: Legalize drugs to stop violence

  • TechCrunch reported on Saturday that Facebook is close to a deal to move to the former Sun site from its current 150, 000 square foot home on California Avenue in Palo Alto, close to the Stanford University campus.

    FORBES: Facebook Staffers: Sentenced To Sun Quentin?

  • The University of California, San Francisco, calculates that more than a million current US smokers 12-17 were recruited by the billions of tobacco impressions delivered, in theaters alone, annually.

    FORBES: Should 'Rango' Have Been Rated R?

  • It could, that is, except that California Chardonnay is as popular as ever, and at the current pace it would take, well, let's just say a really long time before Pinot Gris' 5, 900 acres catches up to Chardonnay's 98, 000.

    FORBES: Wine & Spirts

  • He said he considered moving his family and selling his house, but the current real estate market and the expense of living in California made it impossible.

    CNN: Family of 5 weathers economy with 7 housemates

  • Los Angeles (CNN) -- The California State Teachers' Retirement System has filed a derivative action lawsuit against current and former Wal-Mart executives and board members for the firm's alleged bribery in Mexico and a subsequent corporate coverup, the system said Friday.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • To that end California still represents the best opportunity for the country to grow out of our current situation.

    FORBES: Fix California And The Country Will Follow

  • California Pizza Kitchen got burned on Monday after revising earnings and sales guidance for the current quarter.

    FORBES: Can't Put Dough Into California Pizza Kitchen

  • Mr Allen says he will buy the Seahawks from their current owner (who wants to move the team to, ironically, California) only if a new stadium is built.

    ECONOMIST: Football and the reluctant voter | The

  • Many, though by no means all, of his current advisers are indeed sound, and the evidence from his time governing California and from what the more impressive of them say is that his greatest quality is to be a good listener though not to the legislature, which he treated with disdain.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • In June Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, the ex-CEOs of Hewett-Packard and eBay , won their respective California primaries for senator and governor, while BP 's Tony Hayward, a current CEO, battled environmental and public relations disasters both in the oil-slicked Gulf of Mexico and while watching a regatta off the coast of England.

    FORBES: The State Of The CEO: Guardedly Optimistic

  • The current litigation was filed in 2001 by Betty Dukes, a store greeter in Pittsburg, California, along with five of her co-workers.

    CNN: Justices accept appeal over Wal-Mart gender pay lawsuit

  • IMF, and Maurice Obstfeld, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, reckon it will take a fall of closer to 35% to get the current account back into balance.

    ECONOMIST: Why America's deficit is hard to turn around

  • The party's current southern bias risks alienating other regions the party's poor showing in California and the north-east has a lot to do with regional rivalries as well as ideology and eventually turning the party into a mere regional party rather than a national one.

    ECONOMIST: Republican woes

  • And according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, Texas (current jobless rate 6.8%) has created twice as many new jobs since 2009 as California (jobless rate 10.2%).

    FORBES: Cap & Tax: California's Recipe To Feed The Texas Economy

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