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Washington Times: An angry aide to Rep. Ron Paul, an iPhone and $4,700 in cash have forced the Transportation Security Administration to quietly issue two new rules telling its airport screeners they can only conduct searches related to airplane safety. In response, the American Civil Liberties Union is dropping its lawsuit on behalf of Steve [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Far from winding down, the numbers of wounded U.S. soldiers coming home have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute among those who fought in Afghanistan, where nearly four times as many troops were injured in October as a year ago. Amputations, burns, brain injuries and shrapnel wounds proliferate in Afghanistan, [...]
Fox News: The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood had “more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI” than radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki, investigators have found, a senior U.S. official reportedly said Tuesday. The name of the individuals Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was in [...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) – E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. “The questions of life’s origins and [...]
Times Online: President Obama is to ask members of Nato to provide up to 4,000 more troops to help to break the deadlock in Afghanistan. Mr Obama is poised to confirm a surge of more than 30,000 US combat troops, according to senior military sources. He will also urge the rest of Nato to provide [...]
Politico: Democrats who thought a vote against the sweeping health care package would inoculate them from political attack are facing serious blowback from angry constituents and interest groups on the left—fierce opposition that could prove as consequential as anything Republicans could have thrown at them. For some of 39 House Democrats who opposed the bill, [...]
Politico: Republicans are looking to resurrect the angry town halls of August in the last few weeks of November. Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander said Republicans are “quietly†planning some 50 in-person and telephone town hall gatherings over the next three weeks to drum up opposition to Democratic health care bills. Republicans believe this [...]
Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) doesn’t have a health care bill, cost estimates or 60 votes to pass it – but he said Tuesday that he does expect to begin a floor debate next week on the legislation. Reid also said he will deliver a final bill to the president by Christmas, meeting [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is considering four options for realigning U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, his spokesman said Tuesday, while military officials said the choices involve several ways the president could employ additional U.S. forces next year. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama will discuss the four scenarios with his national security [...]
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) – A 42-year-old father of an Army veteran upset by the treatment of U.S. military personnel sneaked a disassembled shotgun into a middle school just after classes began Tuesday, put it together in a bathroom, then held the principal hostage for more than two hours before surrendering without firing a shot, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Finger-pointing erupted between federal agencies Tuesday over Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan. Government officials said a Defense Department terrorism investigator looked into Hasan’s contacts with a radical imam months ago, but a military official denied prior knowledge of the Army psychiatrist’s contacts with any Muslim extremists. The two government officials, speaking [...]
