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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – The husband of an Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues said Monday that the couple went to a shooting range recently, but that he didn’t know where she got the gun she used for practice that day. James Anderson told The Associated Press that his wife, Amy Bishop, didn’t [...]

MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters stepped up counterattacks Monday against Marines and Afghan soldiers in the militant stronghold of Marjah, slowing the allied advance to a crawl despite Afghan government claims that the insurgents are broken and on the run. Taliban fighters appeared to be slipping under cover of darkness into compounds already deemed [...]

NY Times: WASHINGTON — Last winter, when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. called the United States a “nation of cowards” for avoiding frank conversations on race, President Obama mildly rebuked him in public. Out of view, Mr. Obama’s aides did far more. Rahm Emanuel and Jim Messina, the White House chief and deputy chief [...]

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Sen. Bayh Didn’t Tell Reid About His Plans Not to Seek Re-Election Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) shocked many today with his announcement that he would not seek re-election. One of those in the surprised category – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). According to a democratic source, as of 30 minutes ago, Sen. Bayh had [...]

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, a new U.S. accusation in the midst of rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions and crack down on anti-government protesters. Speaking to Arab students at Carnegie Mellon’s Doha campus, Clinton said Iran’s Revolutionary [...]

Times Online: A bungled Nato missile strike that killed 12 Afghan civilians has cast a shadow over the first phase of a massive air and ground assault by thousands of US and British forces in Helmand. A buoyant mood among Nato commanders at the overall success of the first 48 hours of Operation Moshtarak, in [...]

DOHA, Qatar — U.S. officials sought to shore up support Sunday for a tougher stand against Iran’s nuclear program by saying Tehran had left the world little choice and expressing renewed confidence that holdout China would come around to harsher U.N. penalties. Even as the Obama administration intensifies its diplomacy, Iran is showing little sign [...]

Huntsville (AP) – – An Alabama professor accused of shooting six colleagues was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor in December of 1993, the Boston Globe reported. Amy Bishop and her husband James Anderson were questioned by authorities after a package with two bombs were sent to Dr. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration has been stronger than the Bush administration in fighting terrorism, Vice President Biden said Sunday, suggesting former Vice President Dick Cheney, one of President Obama’s chief critics, is either “misinformed or misinforming.” In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Biden said he thinks Cheney doesn’t listen to the [...]

The Note: When asked whether he thought former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was qualified to be President, Cheney deflected the question. “I haven’t made a decision yet on who I’m going to support,” he said during an exclusive interview on “This Week.” “I think all of the prospective candidates out there have got a lot [...]