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The Hill: President Obama’s Wednesday night criticism of Cambridge, Mass., police has drawn a rebuke from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). The criticism comes after Obama said Cambridge police officers acted “stupidly” when they arrested Henry Louis Gates, a friend of the president’s, after he broke into his own home. Gates was arrested on [...]

CQ Politics: An internal Pentagon oversight board has found that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is two years behind the publicly announced schedule, say multiple congressional aides familiar with the findings, sparking a sharp response from those invested in the debate over the F-22. As Congress has debated the future of the F-22 fighter [...]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Honduras’ deposed president headed toward his nation’s border Thursday to prepare a risky return home, an attempt to reverse an ouster that is testing the vitality of democracy in Latin America. The interim government that sent Manuel Zelaya into exile vows to arrest the president if he sets foot in Honduras. Zelaya [...]

The Daily Mail: The number of confirmed new cases of swine flu in England last week soared by almost double to 100,000, the Department of Health said. Doctors say a total of 840 people are classed as ‘seriously ill’ in hospital – 63 of them in intensive care – from the effects of the disease. [...]

CNN: Barely an hour’s drive from the casinos of Las Vegas, a group of unassuming buildings have become as important as the trenches were to WWI. The big difference? Today’s warriors are fighting without getting in harm’s way, using drones to attack targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. USAF fighter pilot Major Morgan Andrews is one [...]

FOX News: There is no sign that a missing Texas soldier now in police custody was ever kidnapped for ransom as his family claimed, the Army said Thursday. Pfc. James Gonzalez, 24, was arrested Wednesday night after being found unharmed, said U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Command spokesman Christopher Grey. There are no indications that Gonzalez [...]

NEWARK, July 23 – Dozens of New Jersey politicians, officials and prominent rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a sweeping federal probe that uncovered political corruption, human organ sales and money laundering from New York to Israel, officials said. The 10-year investigation, dubbed “Operation Bid Rig,” exposed influence-peddling and bribe-taking among a network of public [...]

ABC: How is health care reform progressing on Capitol Hill? Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., today insisted everything is smooth sailing with the House bill that would require every American to have health insurance or pay a fine; create a government run health plan to compete with private insurers to drive costs down; [...]