US News - News April 27, 2011

Old policy in place, West Point rejects lesbian (The State)
A lesbian cadet who resigned from West Point last year has been rejected for readmission to the academy even as the military moves toward repealing its "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

White iPhone 4s to launch on April 28: Apple (examiner)
After more than 10 months of waiting, the white iPhone 4 is arriving, Apple said, on April 28, 2011. The iPhone 4 was first released on June 24, 2010.

Trump Takes Full Credit as President Obama Releases Long-Form Birth Certificate (huliq)
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate, saying that it was a distraction in these times when America has better things to focus on.

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Apple's marketing-speak attempts to defuse location tracking file furor (examiner)
Apple has finally responded in detail about its hidden location tracking file, and it only took a class action lawsuit, letters from a Senator and a Congressman, multiple investigations globally, and still more to get the oft-reticent firm to respond to questions about the consolidated.db file.

Obama releases his Hawaii birth certificate (content.usatoday)
http://twitpic.com/4q47pm President Obama released copies of his birth certificate today, hoping to silence questions about his Aug. 4, 1961, birth in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama himself plans to make a statement about the so-called "birther issue" at 9:45 a.m. The release is a response to Donald Trump and other critics who have questioned whether Obama was born in the United States, and is therefore eligible for the presidency.

Race complaints in La. gov's plan to merge schools (Kansas City Star)
Eye-level watermarks, gutted buildings and rows of mobile classrooms linger as reminders of the flooding from Hurricane Katrina that nearly wiped out Southern University at New Orleans in 2005.Now the predominantly African-American university faces what students and administrators view as a new threat: Gov.

Republicans turn up heat on Obama over oil prices (WOZZ-FM Appleton)
With Americans upset over rising gasoline prices, Republicans in Congress aim to fix the blame on one person when they return next week from recess: President Barack Obama.

Obama says he wants oil producers to boost output (KMOV)
As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on politics and pocket books, President Barack Obama says he is calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the global economy.

Congressional Republicans go home to mixed reviews (Mountain Ear)
ORLANDO, Fla. Freshman Rep. Daniel Webster was armed with a rainbow of graphs and pie charts, ready to make the GOP's case for budget cuts before his own constituents.

Jet skids off runway in Chicago, nobody injured (LasVegasNOW)
Officials say there were no injuries when a Southwest Airlines jet skidded off a runway at Chicago's Midway Airport.

Endeavour's last skipper thrives on speed, risk (KSL-TV)
Space shuttle Endeavour's commander, Mark Kelly, has spent his entire military career considering the options, weighing the risks, making a decision, then forging ahead.

Countdown begins for next-to-last shuttle launch (NBC26)
The astronaut husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords arrived at NASA's launch site Tuesday for this week's flight of space shuttle Endeavour, and said his wife would be following him "pretty soon" - in plenty of time for liftoff.

Waste in the War on Terrorism - (theatlantic)
Private planes, air conditioning for garbage trucks, and more ways states squander money in the name of "security" Millions have been squandered on "homeland security" over the past decade. The costs to our liberty have also been too high. Earlier this year, a reporter at a small community newspaper got the answer to a question she'd been asking for months: "Are there really 33 terrorist organizations in St. Paul, Minnesota?" That's what her county sheriff claimed in the budget reports he submitted to his superiors. According to her investigation, however, his anti-terrorism unit had been squandering taxpayer money for months on end, and getting away with it by pretending to be guardians of homeland security.

'Do I Have Knees?' (theatlantic)
At Frontline Hospital, Afghan War's Toll Is Deeply FeltBy 7 a.m., the first patients of the day were slid off the medevac helicopters and wheeled into the trauma bay at the Kandahar Airfield hospital in southern Afghanistan.

Did Donald Rumsfeld Whitewash Massacre in Uzbekistan? (theatlantic)
In interviews and in his memoir, the former Secretary of Defense defends the Uzbek government -- and himself -- over a 2005 incident that left hundreds of unarmed protesters dead Reuters In his door-stopper of a memoir, Known and Unknown , former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spends just three pages recounting what he calls "one of the most ...