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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s hard-line president on Wednesday ridiculed President Barack Obama’s new nuclear strategy. Obama on Tuesday announced the new strategy, including a vow not to use nuclear weapons against countries that do not have them. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear [...]

McClatchy: WASHINGTON — Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them. Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors’ offices, human resources departments and business groups. “They’re saying, ‘Where do we get the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s advisers plan to remove terms such as “Islamic radicalism” from a document outlining national security strategy and will use the new version to emphasize that the U.S. does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terrorism, counterterrorism officials say. The change would be a significant shift in the [...]

Jerusalem Post: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he will return to the US on Monday, to take part in President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit, just three weeks after he met with Obama in a meeting widely characterized as extremely difficult. Beyond meeting Obama at a reception for the more than 40 [...]

BANGKOK (AP) – Emboldened anti-government protesters briefly stormed Thailand’s Parliament building Wednesday as lawmakers scaled walls to flee and a Black Hawk helicopter evacuated VIPs trapped by the encircling crowd, officials said. “Red Shirt” protesters led by one of their hardcore leaders smashed through the Parliament compound gate with a truck and rushed to the [...]

From Andrew Malcolm’s Top Of The Ticket: Follow Andrew on Twitter Things are so bad for President Obama these days that he’s packing his bags after work today and taking off for Prague. Not exactly a typical spring break getaway. But after a hot shower aboard Air Force One and a good sleep in the [...]

Jerusalem Post: Amnesty International’s Secretary-General Claudio Cordone has sparked a furor by saying that “jihad in self-defense” is not “antithetical” to human rights. Cordone made the comment in response to a “global petition” signed by a group of human rights activists. The activists had questioned Amnesty’s partnership with Cageprisoners, a British organization founded by ex-Guantanamo [...]

PHOENIX — The 2 percent food tax that’s been the source of much controversy in Phoenix officially went into effect Thursday. Shoppers at any grocery store in the city of Phoenix will now pay $2 more per $100 spent on groceries. The Phoenix City Council approved the tax in February. The tax is meant to [...]

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Fox News: The massive national broadband plan the Federal Communications Commission released last month proposes creating a national framework for the taxation of digital goods and services and imposing a fee to establish and maintain a national public safety wireless broadband network. The FCC says the national tax would eliminate the headaches that come with [...]

Peter Galbraith Times Online: Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s “mental stability” is in doubt and he may even be taking illegal drugs, America’s former top diplomat at the United Nations mission to Afghanistan has claimed. In an interview with a US cable television network Peter Galbraith, the former UN deputy head of mission in Afghanistan described [...]

Politico: The prospect of losing two House seats in back-to-back special elections next month has sparked a vigorous, behind-the-scenes Democratic effort, designed to avoid an outcome that could lead to panic among the rank and file and stall the momentum generated by the recent passage of landmark health care legislation. The trajectories of the two [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement — and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation’s first black president. “I’ve [...]

Washington Post: Despite previous governors’ refusals, McDonnell issues Confederate history month proclamation Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has quietly declared April 2010 Confederate History Month, bringing back a designation in Virginia that his two Democratic predecessors — Mark Warner and Tim Kaine — refused to do. Republican governors George Allen and Jim Gilmore issued similar proclamations. [...]