Times Online: Soldiers’ lives were lost in Iraq and Afghanistan because Gordon Brown failed to fund the Army properly when he was Chancellor, a former chief of the defence staff said yesterday. The Prime Minister is due to appear before the Iraq inquiry today at 10am. General Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, who led the Armed [...]
The Hill: House liberals pressed President Barack Obama on healthcare reform Thursday and left the White House without making any commitments to vote for the final bill. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told The Hill that liberals challenged Obama on the lack of a public health insurance option and other [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jessie Canfield was attending a surprise birthday party with family and friends when she began feeling discomfort and cramping then ducked into a bedroom for several hours. Partygoers told police she said nothing about giving birth to a 6-pound baby girl. Canfield, 24, was arrested Wednesday, hours after trash collectors found [...]
Fox News: The legislation by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., would result in banning all civilian trials for terror suspects who have been classified as enemy combatants and forcing their cases into military commissions Two senators from opposite sides of the political aisle are set to unveil sweeping legislation that will prevent [...]
Twelve people were killed in Baghdad on Thursday, including seven soldiers and police blown up by suicide bombers, days before a poll that will test Iraq’s prospects for stability as U.S. troops prepare to leave. (Reuters) – – Thirty-five soldiers and police were also wounded when two attackers with explosive belts struck at centers where [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – A gunman opened fire at the subway entrance to Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two Pentagon police officers, a spokesman said. The alleged gunman also was wounded, said Chris Layman, a spokesman for the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. Authorities said all three were taken to a hospital. None the injuries were thought [...]
BERKELEY, Calif. – Students carried out raucous rallies on college campuses nationwide Thursday in protests against deep education cuts that turned violent as demonstrators threw punches and ice chunks in Wisconsin and blocked university gates and smashed car windows in California. At least 15 protesters were detained by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee police after as many [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Obama will make an appearance Saturday on Fox’s “America’s Most Wanted,” helping to celebrate the broadcast of its 1,000th episode. The show has helped capture more than 1,100 fugitives and reunited 43 missing children with their families, according to show’s host, John Walsh. Walsh will interview Obama on the episode [...]
Above: The setting for Slayer’s next music video Atlas Obscura: This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Keeping up the pressure for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius chastised top insurance executives Thursday over proposed double-digit rate hikes she said top the list of reasons that Congress must quickly pass his plan. Obama’s chief health care Cabinet member convened a White House [...]
The Hill: Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) will be the acting chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced to her caucus on Thursday. The startling announcement comes a day after Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) appeared ready to take the reins of the committee from Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.). Stark was the [...]
The Hill: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday the White House hopes to see the House approve the healthcare bill by March 18, the first day of the NCAA college basketball tournament and just before President Barack Obama leaves the country on an international trip. Based on conversations the White House has had [...]
Washington (AP) – – Blue Dog Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak says he’s counted 11 lawmakers plus himself willing to kill President Obama’s health care overhaul over abortion language. Stupak, of Michigan, sponsored a provision in the House of Representative’s health care bill that passed last fall that clearly prohibits the use of federal money to [...]
