Politico: PRAGUE — Making a down payment on his goal of a nuclear-arms-free world, President Barack Obama signed a new treaty with his Russian counterpart Thursday to reduce nuclear arsenals on both sides by about one-third. In a gilded hall here at a castle in Prague’s presidential complex, Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev put [...]
The Hill: Pennsylvania Senate candidate Pat Toomey (R) is ahead of Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in a new poll. A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found the former congressman was ahead of Specter 46 to 41 percent. The poll of 1,412 voters was taken from March 30 to April 5., Toomey trailed Specter in a [...]
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) – President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan told a Russian radio station he is not admitting defeat despite a bloody uprising and the formation of an interim government. Bakiyev said on Ekho Moskvy that “I don’t admit defeat in any way” but also recognized that “even though I am president, I don’t have [...]
Fox News: The President and First Lady took time out of their busy schedules on Wednesday to sit down for a taping with “American Idol” as part of the hit show’s fundraising event set to air next week. “Idol Gives Back” is a two-hour charity performance that has already raised more than $140 million in [...]
LONDON (AP) – World markets slid Thursday amid mounting worries about a potential Greek debt default as the country’s borrowing costs continue to go through the roof. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 67.15 points, or 1.2 percent, at 5,694.91 while Germany’s DAX fell 75.65 points, or 1.2 percent, [...]
Iranian anti-aircraft guns (Reuters) – Iran’s president said on Thursday he would not plead with opponents of Tehran’s nuclear program in order to avoid sanctions as Russia and the United States said new measures might be necessary. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who Wednesday called President Barack Obama a nuclear-armed “cowboy”, said Iran would “try to make an [...]
*Sorta, in Kyrgyzstan. “‘His business in Kyrgyzstan is finished’. One area of consensus was on the decision to repeal the recent sharp increases to taxes that provoked widespread anger” BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — An opposition coalition proclaimed a new interim government Thursday in Kyrgyzstan after clashes left dozens dead and said it would rule until [...]
New York (AP) – -The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits rose last week, a sign that jobs remain scarce . The Labor Department said first-time claims increased by 18,000 to a seasonally adjusted 460,000. That’s worse than economists’ estimates of a drop to 435,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
Denver (AP) — An envoy from Qatar who authorities said grabbed a surreptitious smoke in a jetliner’s bathroom and then joked about lighting his shoe on fire, sparking a bomb scare and the scrambling of military jets, has been released from custody. No explosives were found on the Washington-to-Denver flight. Authorities speaking on condition of [...]
Strategy Page: April 7, 2010: Terror attacks in Baghdad over the last week have caused over 400 casualties, including over a hundred dead. The attacks were the work of diehard Sunni Arab radicals, determined to terrorize their way back into power, or die trying. The remaining terrorist cells are largely fueled by cash from Sunni [...]
Politico: Two of the conservative movement’s biggest stars, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), lavished praise on each other Wednesday at a boisterous rally held at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Before a predominantly female crowd of more than 11,000 fans, the two high-profile Republicans ripped President Obama at an event that [...]
Fox News: A Tennessee father says a biology textbook should be banned from his son’s curriculum because of it’s ‘bias’ against Christians. Kurt Zimmermann is appealing a Knoxville school district’s decision to keep the book. He says the textbook used in his son’s biology class cites creationism as a “biblical myth.” According to reports, he [...]
The Hill: Liberal House Democrats are shifting their political tactics on climate change after failing to secure a public option in the new healthcare reform law. The move comes in the wake of liberals having to walk back threats that they would vote against a healthcare bill without a government-run program. “Drawing the line in [...]
