POLITICO: DRESDEN, Germany — President Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world was loaded with phrases and ideas aimed very much at rattling one man he never mentioned: Osama bin Laden. Senior administration officials say the speech was carefully crafted to rob the Al Qaeda leader and his terrorist network of some of its chief [...]
DRESDEN, Germany — After mending fences with the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday, President Obama might want to keep his diplomatic tools handy for his stopover here, to repair his increasingly strained relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel. A rift has quietly opened up between Germany and the United States, marked by official statements of [...]
Satellite photographs suggest that an advanced North Korean missile launchpad is now operational, the Associated Press reported yesterday. The photographs, published Wednesday by the company DigitalGlobe, show debris on the launchpad at the new Tongchang-ri missile base. However, that debris might have been deliberately placed there to make analysts believe the site was still being [...]
Gallup.com PRINCETON, NJ — Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Dick Cheney have little in common politically, but they receive almost identical image ratings from the American public. According to a May 29-31 Gallup Poll, 37% of Americans have a favorable view of Cheney and 34% have a favorable view of Pelosi. [...]
Vice President Joe Biden said Friday the White House plans to “ramp up” the pace of its economic recovery efforts as the government reported the unemployment rate jumped to it highest level in over a quarter-century. Addressing reporters, Biden said the latest jobs report reflects how millions of Americans are still hurting, but he also [...]
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Four former ACORN workers in western Pennsylvania will face trial on charges that they forged, illegally solicited or illegally filled out voter registration cards before the November election. That’s after a court hearing in Pittsburgh on Friday. Twenty-year-old Pittsburgh resident Eric Jones waved his preliminary hearing. Three others were held for trial: [...]
WWLTV: Melinda Deslatte / Eyewitness News BATON ROUGE, La. — A 15-cent monthly surcharge should be levied on Internet access across Louisiana to fight online criminal activity, the House voted 81-9 Thursday, over the opposition of Gov. Bobby Jindal. Rep. Mack “Bodi” White, R-Denham Springs, said he sponsored the bill for Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, [...]
The UN nuclear agency reported on Friday that its inspectors found new traces of man-made uranium at a site in Syria. While the particles were found at a nuclear site, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that their composition did not match the kind of uranium associated with the location. A separate IAEA report stated [...]
Jobless rate jumps to 9.4 percent in May, even as layoffs slow to 345,000 With companies in no mood to hire, the unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 percent in May, the highest in more than 25 years. But the pace of layoffs eased, with employers cutting 345,000 jobs, the fewest since September. The much smaller-than-expected [...]
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., steered millions of dollars in defense work to a campaign donor and the Pentagon went along with it, despite the fact that two convicted drug dealers had been deeply involved with the company. Records filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh starting in 2005 raise questions about whether the government ever [...]
Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate on Thursday that the White House never questioned her about cases or issues she might have to decide as a Supreme Court justice, a disclosure gleaned from reams of documents that reveal she has spoken repeatedly about how her gender and Latina heritage affect her judging. The federal appeals court [...]
PARIS – France’s transportation minister said Friday that French forces have found no signs of the Airbus A330 airplane that vanished over the Atlantic and urged “extreme prudence” about suspected debris taken from the ocean. Dominique Bussereau said he regretted that an announcement by Brazilian teams that they had recovered plane debris from Air France [...]
Jerusalem Post: A day after US President Barack Obama reiterated his call to stop settlement activity during a speech in Cairo, defiant settlers continued to erect illegal structures in the West Bank, building a new outpost on Friday morning between Migron and Kohav Ya’akov. At the outpost, named Oz Yehonatan, the settlers built a wooden [...]
by Ed Morrissey http://hotair.com/ I didn’t get the chance to watch Barack Obama’s Cairo speech live, although I’m sure that it will be chopped up on YouTube within the next couple of hours. Instead, I read the full text posted by Andrew Malcolm, as well as Andrew’s commentary, and in most ways, it wouldn’t differ [...]
