WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. The two ACORN workers are seen apparently advising the couple to lie about her profession and launder her earnings to get housing aid. [...]
FOX News: George W. Bush famously declared in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, “You’re either with us or against us.” The stubborn attitude earned him widespread criticism that he was alienating potential allies. But President Obama, critics charge, is in his effort to reverse Bush-era foreign policy alienating his existing allies. [...]
(AFP) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad travels to New York this week for the UN General Assembly, his disputed re-election still sparking violent protests at home and provocative remarks about the Holocaust drawing condemnation abroad. The defiant leader will be speaking just days before a high-profile international discussion on Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme. Several world powers, [...]
NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Embattled New York Governor David Paterson said on Sunday he was still running for office, in the face of reports that President Barack Obama had asked him to withdraw from the 2010 race for fear that he cannot regroup from a series of political setbacks. “I am running for [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking print editions. It looks like the talk will turn to action this fall, when some large newspapers are expected [...]
(AFP) The United States knew about an abortive coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, and may even have taken part, former US president Jimmy Carter has told a Colombian newspaper. “I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and [...]
The Hill: The president said he is “happy to look at” bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses. “I haven’t seen detailed proposals yet, but I’ll be happy to look at them,” Obama told the editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade [...]
FOX News: RICHMOND, Mass. — Gov. Deval Patrick said Friday that President Barack Obama had personally talked to him about changing the Senate succession law in Massachusetts, and White House aides were pushing for him to gain the power to temporarily replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy amid the administration’s health care push. A [...]
NY Daily News: The Afghan national at the center of a reputed Al Qaeda terror cell probe was trying to cut a deal Friday after two days of FBI grilling, sources told the Daily News. Lawyers for Najibullah Zazi, 25, were negotiating with federal officials for an agreement where he could admit receiving military training [...]
Wall Street Journal: The head of the Federal Communications Commission will propose new rules to prevent Internet providers from selectively blocking or slowing Web traffic, a move that could set off a battle with phone and cable companies that don’t want the government telling them how to run their networks. In a speech Monday, FCC [...]
The Hill: House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio) stressed Thursday night that none of the healthcare bills advanced recently by Democrats — including Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) new proposal — “can pass in any way, shape or form.” Rather, Democrats would be more likely to secure GOP votes if they hit the debate’s “reset” button, [...]
