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Politico: President Barack Obama’s claims of broad executive authority to carry out the war on terror are drawing fire from an unexpected source: federal judges nominated by President George W. Bush, who asserted the sweeping powers in the first place. In recent weeks, three different Bush appointees considering cases relating to war-on-terror detainees have rejected [...]

A unanimous Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Democrat Al Franken should be certified the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race, paving the way for the former Saturday Night Live comedian to be seated after an almost eight-month fight. The high court rejected a legal challenge from Republican Norm Coleman, whose options for regaining [...]

Washington Post: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea criticized the U.S. on Monday for positioning missile defense systems around Hawaii, calling the deployment part of a plot to attack the regime and saying it would bolster its nuclear arsenal in retaliation. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he ordered the deployment of a ground-based, [...]

Obama Pleads With Gays: “I will not only be your friend, I will continue to be an ally and a champion and a president who fights with you and for you.” WASHINGTON — Countering criticism that he’s done little on gay rights, President Barack Obama commemorated the 40th anniversary of the birth of the modern [...]

WAPO: After a series of early and relatively easy victories on Capitol Hill, the White House appears certain to face a more difficult road when Congress returns to work next week. Not content to task lawmakers with passing an ambitious agenda of record new spending, sweeping health-care reform and other major initiatives, President Obama yesterday [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ ousted president said he will return to his country in two days and reclaim control from coup leaders, urging soldiers to go back to their baracks and stop cracking down on thousands of his supporters who have protested his overthrow. The military coup has provoked the condemnation of world leaders from [...]

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Agencie France Presse: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki opened a meeting expected to unveil which foreign companies have won contracts to develop the conflict-torn nation’s key oil and gas fields. Iraq is to announced who has won contracts to develop key oil and gas fields, nearly four decades after Saddam Hussein’s party nationalised the country’s [...]

Jerusalem Post: MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) lashed out Monday against the US demand for a settlement freeze, labeling it “extortion” and warning it could set back Israeli readiness for peace. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Schneller assailed Obama administration officials as holding beliefs shaped by “far-Left opinions outside of the Israeli consensus.” Schneller [...]

MIR ALI, Pakistan – Taliban militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan say they have pulled out of a peace deal with the government, raising the prospect of wider unrest as the Pakistani army extends its efforts to eliminate insurgents. The militants in North Waziristan blamed continuing U.S. missile strikes and army offensives against the [...]

Related: North Korea To Fire Missile At Hawaii On 4th Of July VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) – The Air Force has successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean some 4,200 miles away. Lt. Raymond Geoffroy says the ICBM was launched [...]

Agencie France Presse: Germany’s top court will hand down a ruling whether the European Union’s proposed Lisbon Treaty breaches the country’s constitution and could potentially halt the landmark reform in its tracks. The Federal Constitutional Court hands down its judgement at 10 am (0800 GMT) and a ruling against the Treaty — designed to streamline [...]

Jerusalem Post: A Jew for Jesus who demanded kashrut supervision from the Chief Rabbinate won a Supreme Court decision on Monday likely to spark another confrontation between the nation’s highest legal arbiter and the Orthodox rabbinical establishment. n its verdict, based on a precedent that found belly-dancing to be unrelated to kosher food, the court [...]

BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces assume formal control of Baghdad and other cities on Tuesday after American troops hand over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country. Fireworks, not bombings, colored the Baghdad skyline late Monday, and thousands attended a party in a park where singers [...]

A Yemenia Air plane carrying 153 people from the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen to the island nation of Comoros has crashed in the Indian Ocean, a Yemen airport official said Tuesday. “The plane has crashed and we still don’t know exactly where. We think it’s in the area of Mitsamiouli,” Comoros Vice-President Idi Nadhoim [...]

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Gee, now why does Obama think that the Honduran military dispatching a shadily-elected, oppressive Leftist government sets a “terrible precedent”. Like the situation in Iran, it cuts too close to home, it is his worst personal nightmare. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya [...]