AP – Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
AP – Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month’s Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress over higher costs for businesses and homeowners.
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TechCrunch, among other news outlets, reports that Adobe is cutting 680 employees as part of a restructuring plan. This is roughly 9 percent of the company’s workforce. The news comes on the heels of Electronic Arts’ decision to layoff 1,500 workers and a reduction of 600 from Adobe back in December. Adobe had purchased Omniture in September and reduced its workforce by 9 percent at that time.
The cost of restructuring for Adobe will total between $65 and $71 million, the TechCrunch article says.
The layoffs come just after Adobe announced that Flash Professional CS5 will be able to turn Flash projects into iPhone apps. The company has also recently released a version of its Photoshop.com Mobile app for the iPhone [iTunes link].
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AP – Employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.4 percent, its first decline in 15 months.
AP – TV stations across the U.S. started cutting their analog signals Friday morning, ending a 60-year run for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service.
AP – President Barack Obama sent Congress a detailed budget Thursday boasting of cutting or killing 121 federal programs in a belt-tightening he likened to that of most Americans in difficult times. But the trims amounted to a tiny fraction of the new spending he wants, and some have already been nixed by allies on Capitol Hill.
AP – Rajon Rondo took the pass from Eddie House and bolted for the basket, cutting between 6-foot-11 Dwight Howard and 6-10 Rashard Lewis for a thunderous dunk. In a crucial game for the Boston Celtics, the little guys came up big.
AP – French legislators reconsidered a bill Wednesday that would punish people who illegally download music and films by cutting off their Internet connections.
Flashback to 1993: Lorena Bobbitt (remember her?) makes headlines around the world for cutting off her husband’s penis with a knife. In case you don’t recall some of the finer details, they are as follows: After severing John Bobbitt’s penis, she went for a drive with the penis in tow and proceeded to throw it out the window into a field. All this before she stopped to call 911. The penis was eventually found, put on ice, and successfully reunited surgically with Mr. Bobbitt.
Well, 16 years after her notorious act, Lorena Bobbitt will have another moment in the spotlight when she appears on Oprah Thursday as part of the episode “Where Are They Now? Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt and 90s Newsmakers.”
In the following tantalizing clip from tomorrow’s episode that aired this evening on “The Insider,” you can watch Oprah addressing the question that is surely on everyone’s mind: why did you throw it out the window!