Jerusalem Post: Every year, Israeli children gather around bonfires on the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer and burn the effigies of the enemies of the Jewish people. Perennial favorites in that category include the likes of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Now, a Jewish rightist group wants to add US President Barack Obama to that [...]
Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday that he will not wait for Democrats and Republicans to reach a bipartisan compromise on a Wall Street reform bill, pledging to move ahead with the first key test vote Monday. “I’m not going to waste any more time of the American people while they come [...]
WASHINGTON — While Goldman Sachs’ lawyers negotiated with the Securities and Exchange Commission over potentially explosive civil fraud charges, Goldman’s chief executive visited the White House at least four times. White House logs show that Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein traveled to Washington for at least two events with President Barack Obama, whose 2008 presidential campaign [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL Thursday of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors. The contractors’ burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river in [...]
Fox News: Evangelist Franklin Graham is sticking by his remarks about Islam, including that Muslims are “enslaved” by their religion, even as he faces being uninvited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer service on May 6. Franklin, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, told Fox News on Thursday that he loves Muslim people [...]
Fox News: Most American voters think it is time for the Obama administration to start taking responsibility for the way things are going in the country. A Fox News poll released Thursday finds 66 percent of voters think President Obama should start taking responsibility. That’s more than three times as many as the 21 percent [...]
The Hill: President Barack Obama on Thursday made his case for financial regulatory reform mere blocks from the heart of the U.S. financial sector. Obama used his address in Manhattan to push back on Republican criticism that Democratic plans for financial reform are a ticket to endless bailouts, and to ask Wall Street to join [...]
Press TV: Iraqi security forces have discovered a factory that specialized in making car bombs and other improvised explosive devices in the western province of Anbar. According to a report published by the Voices of Iraq news agency on Wednesday, the discovery near the district of al-Ratba in western Anbar was made following a tip-off [...]
Times Online: A girl aged 12 has won a divorce from her 80-year-old husband in Saudi Arabia
The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) she is “fine†with the Senate taking up immigration reform before climate change legislation. Pelosi made the comments in a private meeting on Tuesday, according to a Democratic aide. The aide stressed that the discussion was not about doing one of [...]
Politico: The House ethics committee has ramped up its investigation into the sexual-harassment scandal surrounding former Rep.Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), launching a special investigative subcommittee and interviewing Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) regarding his role in the case. The creation of an investigative panel shows that even though Massa is long gone from the House, the [...]
