WASHINGTON (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is skipping President Barack Obama’s nuclear security summit, which he had originally accepted the President’s invitation to, and was attending next week. An official with the Israeli government tells The Associated Press that a deputy prime minister will attend in Netanyahu’s place. The official spoke on condition [...]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – A horrifying case—a gang rape of a 7-year-old sold by her teenage stepsister to armed men—grew more bizarre when the girl’s stepfather showed up outside the Trenton courthouse Thursday to say that three of the five accused men had actually tried to help the girl. He was summoned to the courthouse [...]
Financial Times: This week oil climbed to $87 a barrel, its highest level since October 2008 and prompted concerns that triple-digit crude was once again in the offing. This was after a period of eight months when oil traded between $70 and $80, a narrow band that pleased oil producers without hurting consumers too much. [...]
The Hill: President Barack Obama’s decision to allow expanded offshore oil drilling prompted the first public criticism of his administration from Al Gore’s environmental advocacy group, the Alliance for Climate Protection. The organization, which the former vice president founded and chairs, put out a statement last week opposing the new policy. The statement is significant [...]
Pedophile Mohammed and his child bride Aisha Agencie France Presse: A 13-year-old Yemeni girl who was forced into marriage died five days after her wedding when she suffered a rupture in her sex organs and hemorrhaging, a local rights organization said Thursday. Ilham Mahdi al Assi died last Friday in a hospital in Yemen’s Hajja [...]
Bloomberg: April 7 (Bloomberg) — Ask Senator John McCain about his popularity on Twitter and he’s quick to respond. “One million seven-hundred and forty-one thousand,†the 73-year-old Arizona Republican said, reciting the number of his followers on the third-most-popular social-networking site in the U.S. McCain, who said during his 2008 presidential bid that he didn’t [...]
Backyard of Cage’s “frat house bordello’ L.A. Times: Nicolas Cage is leaving Bel-Air. And not by choice.
ABC News: A Florida teen hospitalized after a savage school beating last month put her in a coma is showing the first signs of improvement, according to her family’s lawyer, but 15-year-old Josie Lou Ratley’s mother said today that she worries her daughter may not recover to be the same person. “She doesn’t follow commands [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – As the U.S. census nears its final stages, the government is preparing for possible debacles that could derail its $15 billion head count, from mass identity theft and lawsuits to homeowners who refuse to answer their doors. Census Bureau documents, obtained by The Associated Press, underscore the highly fragile nature of the [...]
Denver (AP) – – The 27-year-old Qatari diplomat who caused a full-blown, midair security scare when he tried to sneak a cigarette and then joked about it should be recalled or expelled for doing just about “everything wrong” on board the United Airlines flight to Denver, some officials said Thursday. Mohammed Al-Madadi flew back to [...]
The Hill: Fundamental changes to the federal budget will be needed to rein in unsustainable deficits, Congress’s budget watchdog said Thursday. “U.S. fiscal policy is unsustainable, and unsustainable to an extent that it can’t be solved through minor changes,†Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast. Spending [...]
Fox News: A television producer who has won awards for his hit CBS show “Suvivor†is the main suspect in his wife’s death after he reported her missing in the Mexican resort city of Cancun. The body of Monica Beresford-Redman was found Thursday morning in a sewer at the swanky Moon Palace resort where the [...]
Politico: Marco Rubio’s remarkable fundraising haul — $3.6 million this quarter, he just announced — is a reminder of the scale of his stardom inside the Republican Party, all of whose core constituencies seem to like the guy. He’s already hearing every day (and brushing it off) that he should run for president in 2012, [...]
PRAGUE (AP) – President Barack Obama says a new arms pact with Russia sets the stage for further cuts in the two nations’ nuclear arsenals. Obama says he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (dih-MEE’-tree med-VYEH’-dyev) also have agreed to expand discussions on missile defense, and will aim for a dialogue on cooperation in that area. [...]
