June 02--Indicted former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's arraignment has been postponed to next week. Which can only help his campaign to succeed FIFA's Sepp Blatter.
Hastert is a master politician-turned-wealthy lobbyist. Given all he's been accused of, he clearly could hit the ground running.
There's probably more to Blatter's resignation than an abrupt crisis of conscience. It's not gall that forces removal of a Blatter, it's stones.
The city of Phoenix is suing the FAA because changes in flight paths have upped aircraft noise levels in certain neighborhoods. Said residents: "What?"
Illinois has moved a step closer to rescinding its 1989 prohibition against happy hour drink specials. The thing about happy hour is you never know who you'll run into. Especially driving home.
Google released a demographic breakdown of its workforce showing, despite its diversity initiatives, a preponderance of white and Asian men. Everyone else must be on Google's second search page.
"Go Set a Watchman," Harper Lee's long-awaited companion to 1960's "To Kill a Mockingbird," has become the most pre-ordered book in HarperCollins history. Probably selling better than if titled "Don't Know the Timewoman."
The Southeastern Conference says it will fine schools as much as $250,000 for fans storming the basketball court or football field. That's money a university would have to divert from something central to its mission. Like a new weight room.
Canada may saddle several U.S. products with steep tariffs in retaliation for this country's meat labeling requirements. Also irritating Canada? A Florida team is in the Stanley Cup Final.
Robert Noyce -- co-inventor of the microchip, co-founder of Intel and considered mayor of Silicon Valley -- died 25 years ago Wednesday. He was 62. A benefactor of Iowa's Grinnell College, Noyce was nearly expelled as an undergraduate for stealing a farmer's pig for a late-night luau.
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