NEW YORK (AP) – Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. The couple sent an e-mail to friends Friday announcing the news. They said they were looking at a possible wedding next summer. [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to lay out a time frame for winding down the American involvement in the war in Afghanistan when he announces his decision this week to send more forces, senior administration officials said Sunday. Although the speech was still in draft form, the officials said the president wanted [...]
Times Online: White working class communities feel a justifiable sense of grievance and deserve additional assistance reserved for minorities groups, a Cabinet minister said today. John Denham, the Communities Secretary, said that government agencies and councils should give more priority to poor white communities who feel hard done by because of immigration and the recession. [...]
Washington Post: President Obama has offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, while warning with unusual bluntness that its use of insurgent groups to pursue policy goals “cannot continue.” The offer, including an effort to help reduce tensions between Pakistan and India, was contained in a two-page letter delivered to [...]
Fox News: Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion “as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity,” according to a paper written two years ago to influence the future strategy of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world’s would-be environmental watchdog. The purpose of the paper, put together after an [...]
SEATTLE (AP) – A heavily armed SWAT team swarmed a Seattle home Monday where they thought they had cornered the suspect in the slaying of four police officers, only to find out that he was not in the house and still on the loose. The discovery added new urgency to a manhunt that began when [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The 60 votes aren’t there any more. With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to advance is fracturing already. Yet majority Democrats will need 60 votes again to finish. Some Democratic senators say they’ll jump ship from the bill [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — A suspect in the slaying of four police officers who were gunned down in a suburban coffee shop was surrounded by police at a Seattle house early Monday, wounded and possibly dead, police said. Negotiators were trying to communicate with Maurice Clemmons, 37, using loudspeakers, explosions and even a robot to try [...]
Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has soured on a call from its top commander to double the size of the Afghan police and army, reflecting the White House’s continued skepticism about the Afghan government even as the U.S. prepares a surge of troops into the country, people familiar with the matter say. [...]
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Politico: If you were watching MTV at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, you caught the first glimpse at MTV’s trailer for “Real World DC.” Locals making cameos include Rep. Jared Polis and Washington Times reporter Joe Curl. In one scene, a “Real World” housemate takes a turn behind Robert Gibbs’s podium in the White House Press [...]
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St. Louis Today: ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations. The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended a demonstration outside an Aug. 6 forum called by U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, at Bernard [...]
Telegraph: If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and [...]
The Washington Times: “Green energy” is proving to be no miracle solution to the nation’s monumental unemployment problems, and it is doing little to help the economy emerge from its deepest recession in decades, economists say. A large part of this year’s $786 billion stimulus bill was devoted to green or renewable energy projects, with [...]
The Hill: Politicians have lobbed “garlic milkshakes,†described “Orwellian†behavior and questioned someone’s qualifications as a “black man†while attempting to score points in this year’s healthcare debate. We’ve heard a House Republican accuse President Barack Obama of lying, while a House Democrat suggested he was tying to get “half-pregnant†on the issue. There’ve been [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House said President Barack Obama could use an unusual evening war council session Monday to lock in his long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan. Military officials and others said they expect Obama to settle on a middle-ground [...]
