BitGou: Morning Digest: All eyes on Wisconsin governor's recall election

2012年6月5日星期二

Morning Digest: All eyes on Wisconsin governor's recall election

Reuters » Morning Digest

06/5/2012

Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between

All eyes on Wisconsin governor's recall election

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin voters will decide on Tuesday whether to throw Governor Scott Walker out of office in a rare recall election forced by opponents of the Republican's controversial effort to curb collective bargaining for most unionized government workers..

Japan PM urged to be cautious about nuclear restarts

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly a third of Japan's ruling party lawmakers are petitioning Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to be cautious about restarting nuclear reactors given safety concerns after last year's earthquake and tsunami, an organizer said on Tuesday..

Stock futures signal Wall Street may edge up at open

(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 up 0.1-0.3 percent..

"Hunger Games" scoops up four MTV movie awards

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Hunger Games" won four MTV Movie Awards on Sunday but a "Twilight" film picked up the best movie honor for the fourth straight year in what proved to be a tame evening at the typically outrageous awards show..

Kings dump Devils to put one hand on Stanley Cup

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Kings pounded the New Jersey Devils 4-0 on Monday to move to the brink of claiming the franchise's first Stanley Cup and concluding their unlikely playoff run in true Hollywood fashion..

Google to buy social media startup Meebo

(Reuters) - The world's biggest search engine, Google Inc, will buy Meebo Inc, a startup that helps online publishers connect their websites with social network sites, Meebo said on its blog..

Stanford genome pioneer wins Lemelson-MIT prize

BOSTON (Reuters) - Stephen Quake, a prolific inventor whose creative application of physics to biology has lead to multiple developments in drug discovery and genome analysis, has won the prestigious $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize for outstanding innovators..

Pot smoking mother drives off with baby on car roof

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A marijuana-smoking woman was arrested on Saturday in Phoenix after she accidentally drove away with her five-week-old son in a child safety seat on the roof of her vehicle, police said..