July 12, 2010 at 1:29 p.m.
Filed under:
Government,
Taxes
By Reuters
A congressional debate about extending Bush-era tax cuts for middle class American families will probably happen later this year, the White House said Monday.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the debate would probably happen in the fall, before the conclusions of a fiscal commission appointed by President Barack Obama on the U.S. deficit challenge, which is due by year-end.
July 8, 2010 at 6:21 a.m.
Filed under:
Computers,
Internet
By Associated Press
Hundreds of computers that helped cause a wave of outages on U.S. and South Korean government websites last July launched new attacks on the same sites, but no major interference was reported, police said Thursday.
The computers were programmed to attack every July 7, according to police, so this year’s assault appeared to be a continuation of last year’s, which began over the July 4 holiday weekend in the U.S. but reached South Korea on July 7. Get the full story »
