Transcript DADT Won’t Go Away Quickly

Current Events Headlines
January 3 – 10, 2011
DADT Won’t Go Away Quickly
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• No one in the
Pentagon seems to
know how long it
will take to enact
repeal
• Gay service
members say
repeal makes them
more likely to stay
in the military
Census: 308.7 million people live here
Story Highlights
• The country grew 9.7%
over the last decade,
according to Census
Director Robert
Groves, who
announced the results
of the 2010 Census
December 21.
• It was the slowest
growth rate since the
Depression of the
1930s.
Rape victims fear being jailed in
Mauritania
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• Rights groups working to
get a law defining rape in
Mauritania
• Currently rape victims can
be jailed for having sex
outside marriage
• Victims also pressured by
social stigma attached to
rape
• One woman tells CNN:
Mauritania is no place for
rape victims like me
Walker Promises Transparent
Administration
• Governor-elect Scott Walker’s inauguration
at noon today.
Monkeys and Meth Don’t Mix Weekly “Not too bright Criminal”
• William Alan Givan (pictured) of
Hawkins County, TN was
charged with manufacturing
methamphetamine. There's
certainly nothing uncommon
about that. What was slightly
strange though was that the
meth lab was guarded by
aggressive pet monkeys!
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Mexican military: Suspected
drug cartel leader arrested
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• Jesus Israel de la Cruz
Lopez is believed to
be a leader in the
Sinaloa cartel
• The Sinaloa cartel is
Mexico's largest drug
mafia
• Mexican President
Felipe Calderon has
touted Tijuana as a
success story
One year later, Haiti's symbolic sites
are sadly unchanged
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• A year after earthquake, CNN
revisits Haiti's iconic sites
• At the cathedral, services
take place among the rubble
• For some, the national palace
is symbolic of a country in
ruins
• "Temporary" tent city now
boasts a barbershop,
cybercafe
Brazil inaugurates first female president
STORY
HIGHLIGHTS
• Dilma Rousseff
became Brazil's
first female
president
Saturday
• Her inauguration
takes place 41
years after her
arrest for
subversive
activities
• Rousseff says she
was tortured by
the military
Police 'actively pursuing' second
person in Tucson shooting
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• Investigators are pursuing a
second suspect
• A congressional aide, a federal
judge, a nine-year old and
three others died in shooting
outside supermarket
• U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
was seriously wounded along
with 11 others
• A suspect is in custody; law
enforcement sources identify
him as Jared Lee Loughner
Jared
Loughner
Arizona shooting suspect
Jared Loughner charged
with murder, attempted
murder and attempting
to kill member of
Congress.
World hails vote on independence in
Southern Sudan
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• Northerners are mostly
Arab and Muslim, while
southerners are mostly
black Africans and
animist/Christian
• Southerners could usher in
the world's newest nation
• About 2 million people –
mostly from the south –
died from 1983 to 2005
during a war between the
two sides