- Five New Orleans police officers were found guilty of 25 separate civil rights violations in the fatal bridge shootings after Hurricane Katrina.
- The US State Department is advising all American citizens to leave Syria immediately in the wake of this week's deadly tank crackdown by the Bashar Al-Assad government.
- The Army announced it will cut combat duty tours in Iraq and Afghanistan to nine months as troop drawdowns continue.
- Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, has seen his stock portfolio take a nearly $7 billion hit in the last week of global stock turmoil.
- Scientists are studying ways to make desalinization less energy-intensive as the world's population needs more sources of fresh water.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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