Egyptian President Mahammed Morsi, who with the assistance of Qatar and Turkey has been trying to broker a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, announced that a cease-fire will be agreed to sometime later today.
The developers for the controversial Pebble Mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay have now encountered another barrier to development of a copper and gold mine in that location.
On Friday, one of the seven defendants in the plot to conduct coordinated suicide-bombings in the New York subway system was sentenced for his part in the plot.
Two felons, 26-year-old Andre M. Conerly, and 29-year-old Daunte R. Williams were sentence to lengthy prison terms in Seattle on Friday for conspiracy to deal in firearms as well as being felons in possession of firearms.