ABC News: Former vice president Dick Cheney, in an exclusive appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” offered a sharp critique of the Obama administration’s handling of national security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying any achievements over the past year largely stemmed from policies implemented under President George W. Bush. “If [the administration [...]
Fox 11: OSHKOSH – A controversial billboard along Highway 41 is catching people’s attention. It calls for President Obama to be removed from office. The spot, near the Oshkosh Correctional Institute, is also becoming a popular spot for motorists to pull over and snap a picture. “The sign kind of struck me as being very [...]
New York Post: by Rich Lowry It might have been the most revelatory moment of the Obama presidency. In an interview with Time magazine, a chastened President Obama talked of his sputtering Middle East peace initiative. “This is just really hard,” he explained. “This is as intractable a problem as you get.” As an observation, [...]
NY Times: More than 6,000 American, Afghan and British troops came in fast early on Saturday, overwhelming most immediate resistance. But as the troops began to fan out on searches, fighting with Taliban insurgents grew in frequency and intensity across a wide area. The pattern suggested that the hardest fighting lay in the days to [...]
Times Online: A British soldier died as more than 15,000 troops launched the biggest military offensive in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taleban in 2001. The soldier from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards was killed by an explosion while on patrol in a Jackal vehicle in Nad Ali, Helmand province, in the early stages of [...]
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) – A former Massachusetts police chief says there was no attempt to cover up a fatal shooting committed in 1986 by a University of Alabama in Huntsville professor currently accused of killing three colleagues at a faculty meeting. Current Braintree, Mass., police Chief Paul Frazier says Amy Bishop shot her brother at [...]
Guardian: The Olympic juggernaut rolls on in Vancouver – a $6bn (£4bn) celebration of sporting excellence and Canadian pride that has been seven years in the planning and waits for no man, not even one who lost his life in pursuit of what organisers called “his Olympic dream”, but which others suggested was a tragedy [...]
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – Authorities say an Alabama biology professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues at a faculty meeting had been denied tenure, which provides job security. University spokesman Ray Garner said Saturday that the professor, Amy Bishop, had been informed months ago that she would not be granted tenure. He said the faculty [...]
W4ABC: GREENSBURG, Pa. — Six people are charged in connection with the brutal assault and killing of a mentally challenged woman found wrapped in plastic and stuffed inside a garbage can in a school parking lot in Greensburg. “She was exploited,” said Jennifer Daugherty’s sister, Joy Burkholder. “Her kindness and handicap made her vulnerable. She [...]
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — There “may never be a clear answer” as to why a biology professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville allegedly shot and killed three colleagues and wounded thre others, campus police said Saturday in a news conference. Amy Bishop, 42, was charged Friday night with one count of capital murder, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – An interior designer is suing CNN anchor Anderson Cooper after she took an unusual fall
