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Washington has calmed concerns that in a drive to rebuild ties with Russia it could drop a plan to set up a US anti-missile base in Poland, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Wednesday. “I’m reassured,” Sikorski told reporters after he was briefed by US Assistant Secretary of State Stephen Mull on this week’s Moscow [...]

WASHINGTON – More Afghan soldiers with better training are needed to help clear the Taliban from a key poppy-growing province in southern Afghanistan, a top U.S. Marines commander said Wednesday. A number of Taliban militants have fled Helmand province since the Obama administration launched its first major military operation in Afghanistan a week ago, Marines [...]

URUMQI, China – Banks of paramilitary police fanned out in the far-flung Chinese city of Urumqi on Wednesday to try to stifle unrest days after 156 people were killed in the region’s worst ethnic violence in decades. Han Chinese took to the streets for the second day, and even with helicopters hovering overhead there were [...]

CBS News: SACRAMENTO ― Seven days after the new fiscal year began, the state of California still appears to be far from a budget solution. Disabled protesters, angry over cuts to vital services, were arrested outside the Capitol on Tuesday; inside, lawmakers bickered about fruits and juices. A war of words developed between Governor Arnold [...]

MSNBC: A man died after he apparently fell into a vat of melted chocolate Wednesday morning, said Camden police. The unidentified worker allegedly fell into a chocolate melting tank at a company on the 700 block of N 36th Street in Camden, N.J. The chocolate was so hot that it was boiling at the time [...]

Jerusalem Post: Famed transsexual singer Dana International has been accused of unleashing a torrent of racial abuse and threats this week against a heavily pregnant dark-skinned woman who recently made aliya from Britain. The singer’s manager, Shai Kerem, has denied the charges, adding that a lawsuit for slander was being planned. “No one in London [...]

Join ACTIVE Politico: Vice President Joe Biden is invading House Minority Leader John Boehner’s back yard tomorrow to tout the success of the stimulus package, but Boehner is redoubling his attacks, accusing the vice president of lying about the economy. “I found it…interesting over the last couple of days to hear Vice President Biden and [...]

Should the government be allowed to set your pay? The Left wants to reguate everything you do, including what you choose to eat. Next will be to whom you pray. Isn’t it past time to get the government the f- out of your life, and out of your enterprises? Join ACTIVE. Times Online: City regulators [...]

Politico: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has had an eventful couple of weeks to say the least, believes House Republican opposition to climate change legislation and the stimulus indicates they’re cheering against the good ol’ US of A. “It appears that the Republican Party leadership in the Congress has made a decision that they want [...]

WASHINGTON — Government investigators smuggled bomb-making materials into federal buildings past the police agency charged with protecting those buildings and found numerous other gaps in security, according to a congressional report. The Government Accountability Office said investigators carried bomb-making materials past security at 10 federal buildings. Security at these buildings and a total of about [...]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is struggling to show progress in a race against the clock to revamp the U.S. health care system this year. Problems in Congress threaten to overshadow a White House event Wednesday designed to boost Obama’s health overhaul, his top domestic priority. Leaders from hospital industry trade groups were expected to [...]