Posts Tagged ‘error’

UK’s Blair says EU exit would be “monumental error”

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron risks committing a monumental error that would threaten Britain’s status as a world power if he allows rising anti-European Union sentiment to spiral into an EU exit, former leader Tony Blair said on Wednesday. Britain’s tortured relations with Europe have shot to the top of the political agenda [...]

Fox News blames live airing of suicide on “severe human error”

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Fox News apologized for a "severe human error" that resulted in viewers seeing a suspected carjacker fatally shoot himself after a police chase. The coverage of the Friday incident, which sparked outrage on social media and a quick on-air apology by anchor Shepard Smith, showed a man stumbling from an allegedly stolen [...]

GOP Bases Convention on a Grammatical Error

With the Republican convention seemingly crafted around President Obama’s infamous “you didn’t build that,” the Washington Post fact-checkers reevaluated their take on the line which they say was merely a grammatical error by the president. Tweet This Post

Ad Tying Romney to Cancer Death Airs ‘In Error’

A controversial TV ad tying Mitt Romney to a woman’s cancer death aired today for the first time in Ohio, apparently in error, according to the pro-Obama super PAC that produced it. “Station error is all,” explained Priorities USA Action senior strategist Bill Burton. ”Kind of… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Regulators looking into Knight Capital’s trading error: CBOE

CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. regulators are looking into Knight Capital Group Inc’s trading error Wednesday that caused a rush of orders for dozens of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, the chief of the biggest U.S. options market said. “Our understanding is that the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) and FINRA are reviewing what [...]

Pro-Romney group: Mystery $400,000 donation error

The “super” political action committee supporting likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney says it provided the wrong address for a mysterious donor who gave $ 400,000. But Restore Our Future still won’t say who is behind the money. Tweet This Post

Daniels legacy on line with Ind.’s $205M tax error

Gov. Mitch Daniels has built a national image as a fiscal manager with an eye for detail, but two massive accounting errors that have tilted Indiana’s books by more than half-a-billion dollars threaten to tarnish that reputation as the popular Republican prepares to leave office. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Another Suskind Error

Keith Hennessey, an economic policy aide in the Bush White House, hasn’t read Ron Suskind’s new book, Confidence Men, but says a quote attributed to him in Suskind’s book on the Bush administration, The Price of Loyalty, was “fabricated.” Tweet This Post