NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device. A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the cargo ship as it steamed on to its destination. Pirates hijacked [...]
Politico: Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage. Following serious setbacks with independents in off-year elections earlier this month, White House officials attributed the defeats to local factors and said President Barack Obama [...]
Politico: “Ping-pong†might be too difficult. Reconciliation, too partisan. But as Democrats look for a way to speed up the health reform debate, a mini-conference modeled after the stimulus bill negotiations might be what works. With the president’s year-end deadline for health care reform looming, congressional Democrats know they’ll almost certainly have to short-circuit the [...]
Fox News: Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently “Going Rogue” is no normal book. When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages. The AP [...]
MYFOXNY.COM: Two NYPD officers assigned to Vice President Joe Biden’s advance security team were hurt in a crash on Tuesday evening in Manhattan. It happened at at about 5:30 p.m. One other person was also hurt in the accident. Three police cars were headed west bound on 49th street and crossing 10th Avenue.. The vehicles [...]
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Wall Street Journal: Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring, in a sign of weakening political will to tackle a long-term environmental issue at a time of high unemployment and economic uncertainty. Legislation on health care, overhauling financial markets and job creation will be considered [...]
New York Times: Despite new recommendations that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said Tuesday that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change. “It’s kind of hard to suggest that we should stop examining our patients and screening them,†said Dr. Annekathryn Goodman, director of [...]
The Hill: Republicans senators plan to grill Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday about his pledge not to allow the release of dangerous detainees into the United States. Holder’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee marks the first time senators have had a chance to question Holder publicly since the Department of Justice announced its [...]
China Daily: CHIANG MAI, Thailand: Former US President Jimmy Carter said he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died. Islamist militants stormed the US Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, and seized its [...]
Herald Tribune: VENICE – Two men armed with guns and wearing ski masks entered the T.J. Maxx store in Venice Tuesday night and held eight employees hostage for more than three hours. Seven of the hostages eventually left the store unharmed, but the final hostage — a 16-year-old girl who had been hiding from the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon will investigate its procedures in light of the Fort Hood shooting rampage, looking at how all the military services keep a watch on potential problems in their ranks, officials said Tuesday. The probe is still in the planning stages, but would be a broad examination beyond the particulars of Army [...]
Politico: Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at some of her chief critics, who she says are responsible for spreading “bull crap†about her and her family. In the first part of an interview that aired Tuesday morning on ABC’s “Good Morning America,†Palin hit former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt, CBS News’ [...]
Fox News: Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammograms for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care “rationing” in the fight against the No. 2 cancer killer in U.S. women. “I absolutely believe this could be a form of [...]
ABC News: Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional [...]
