In a statement released this evening, Sen. Nelson said, “I have heard concerns from Nebraskans regarding Ms. Kagan, and her lack of a judicial record makes it difficult for me to discount the concerns raised by Nebraskans, or to reach a level of comfort that these concerns are unfounded. Therefore, I will not vote to confirm Ms. Kagan’s nomination.”

Nelson is the only Democrat to oppose Kagan at this point. Five Republicans, on the other hand, have said they will support Kagan’s nomination, giving her more than enough votes to win confirmation. A vote is expected in the Senate late next week.

Nelson has sided with Republicans on a number of votes in the past, most recently the restoration and extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless.

Nassif earned the nickname after he shopped Agliotti in return for indemnity for the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble.

He also told investigators from the now defunct Scorpions who his three gunmen were.

Soon afterwards, the words “King Rat” - the title of a novel by James Clavell - were spray-painted on the wall of Nassif’s home in the southern Johannesburg suburb of Bassonia.

“This is unbelievable to us at this point,” Nora Shourd told CNN on Friday. “I mean, it is outrageous that they are still there.”
The three mothers were interviewed on CNN’s American Morning.

Shourd, the mother of hiker Sarah Shourd, said at first they thought the ordeal would be “over fairly quickly.” She said it has gone on “long enough.”

The landmark decision, issued by the Constitutional Council, seemed to herald the end of an ancient but widely criticized practice that defense lawyers and rights advocates have long denounced as an invitation to abuse by police officers seeking to browbeat suspects into confessing.

Suffice to say, a few more quarters like this, and that bar will be negative again. This is what keeps James Bullard up at night.

But in an effort to show that Grimm lacks support among voters in the district, which covers Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, the McMahon campaign compiled a list of Jewish donors to Grimm and provided it to The Politicker.

The file, labeled “Grimm Jewish Money Q2,” for the second quarter fundraising period, shows a list of over 80 names, a half-dozen of which in fact do hail from Staten Island, and a handful of others that list Brooklyn as home.

“Where is Grimm’s money coming from,” said Jennifer Nelson, McMahon’s campaign spokeman. “There is a lot of Jewish money, a lot of money from people in Florida and Manhattan, retirees.”

Prime Minister George Papandreou signed a rare order on Thursday, allowing drivers who refused to work to be arrested or lose their licenses.

Talks between the two sides continued as the strike went in Athens went into its fifth day.

On Thursday, riot police clashed with about 500 protesters outside the transport ministry in Athens.

“It’s Europe’s most sweeping pension reform, (approved) without a single day of demonstrations,” crowed Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti last week.

The unpopular austerity measures totalling 25 billion euros (32 billion dollars) call for a three-year salary freeze for public workers, a 10 percent cut in ministry budgets, less funding for local governments and more action to combat tax evasion, among other measures.

The accident took place in the country’s western Bandundu province on Wednesday.

“I can confirm the accident. We are currently in a crisis meeting,” a source in the Bandundu province governor’s office, who did not want to be named, told the Reuters news agency.

Putri Munawaroh was arrested after police raided her house in Central Java, sparking a gunbattle that killed Noordin Top, the alleged head of the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah, and three other suspects, including her husband.

The 21-year-old Munawaroh, then pregnant, was wounded in the September 2009 shootout. She later gave birth to a son, who lives with her in prison.

The South Jakarta District Court found her guilty of violating the country’s Anti-Terror Law by providing assistance to wanted militants, said presiding judge Ida Bagus Widyantara.

Noordin, a Malaysian national, was wanted in connection with a spate of bombings in Indonesia, including the 2002 attack on two Bali nightclubs that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.