100,000 fans and other ne’er-do-wells descended on downtown Vancouver after their team’s loss to the Bruins last night. Canucks fans set fire to cars, smashed out windows and attacked police. Vancouver has a history or rioting after tough losses. In 1994, fans rioted after the Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in game 7 [...]
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College Daybreak – Pakistan arrests CIA informants
June 15, 2011 – 1:00 pm
From the New York Times: “Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.” The relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. has frayed [...]
College Daybreak – Many Mexican drug gangs get firearms from U.S.
June 14, 2011 – 12:15 pm
The U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms traced 70% of firearms recovered from Mexican drug gangs back to the U.S. The figure isn’t a perfect estimation of how many firearms total originate in the U.S., but it does indicate that American arms are helping fuel gang violence. Quick fact: Approximately 40,000 people have been [...]
College Daybreak – Politician Anthony Weiner owns up to inappropriate pics
June 7, 2011 – 12:48 pm
Weiner, a Democratic congressman from New York, admitted that he sent a lewd photo of himself over Twitter. The original photo, a “waist down picture of a man in his underpants” (as the Washington Post tactfully describes it) was sent to a women from Weiner’s Twitter account. Weiner originally denied that he sent the photo and [...]
College Daybreak – North Korean people face starvation
June 6, 2011 – 12:34 pm
Usually the United States and South Korea send millions of tons of rice and food to North Korea. However, this year both countries are withholding shipments after North Korea fired artillery at a South Korean island, killing two civilians and two soldiers. Quick facts: Between 900,000 and 3.5 million North Koreans starved to death in [...]
College Daybreak – BREAKING: Fewest jobs created since June 2010
June 3, 2011 – 1:29 pm
54,000 jobs were created in April, sending the unemployment rate back up to 9.1%. -CNBC Get all the news you need to know! Sign up for the College Daybreak now!
College Daybreak – ‘Unusual’ tornadoes kill four in Massachusetts
June 2, 2011 – 2:18 pm
At least two tornadoes swept through central and western Massachusetts yesterday. The tornadoes left four dead and more than 30 people injured. There are usually three to four tornadoes a year in Massachusetts, though not this early in the year. Quick facts: A tornado that struck Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1953 killed 94 people. 55,000 homes [...]
College Daybreak – Cost causes politicians to rethink Afghan war
May 31, 2011 – 12:58 pm
U.S. involvement in Afghanistan will cost $113 billion this fiscal year. It will cost another $107 billion in the next. Quick facts: It costs $1 million per year for each soldier in Afghanistan. That’s significantly higher than in Iraq. Afghanistan’s terrain makes it more difficult and expensive to supply the troops. The U.S. will be [...]
College Daybreak – Germany will stop using nuclear power by 2022
May 30, 2011 – 2:36 pm
There were mass anti-nuclear protests in Germany after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan. The government announced today that all nuclear power plants will be phased out of use by 2022. Quick facts: Germany used nuclear for nearly one-quarter of its power before the crisis in Japan. Germany is planning on using renewable energy [...]
College Daybreak – Hispanic population grows 43% in last decade
May 27, 2011 – 12:39 pm
There are now 50.5 million Hispanics in the U.S. That’s 15.2 million more than there were 10 years ago, according to Census numbers released yesterday. Quick facts: Hispanics account for 16.3% of the 308 million people in the U.S. Hispanics accounted for half of all U.S. population growth over the last decade. The Census counts [...]
