Wall Street Journal: An Iranian firm closely linked to Tehran’s nuclear program acquired special hardware for enriching uranium, despite sanctions intended to keep such equipment out of Iran, according to officials with knowledge of the matter. In recent weeks, the officials said, an Iranian procurement firm obtained critical valves and vacuum gauges made by a [...]
DOUGLAS, Arizona (Reuters) – The murder of a prominent Arizona rancher near the Mexican border is spurring charges that Washington is doing too little to stop Mexico’s raging drug war from spilling over into the United States. Robert Krentz was shot last Saturday while working at his remote cattle ranch some 30 miles northeast of [...]
(Reuters) – Tens of thousands of protesters converged on Bangkok’s shopping district on Saturday, forcing major retailers to close while accusing authorities of neglecting the poor on the 21st day of a mass rally seeking snap elections. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s embattled government deployed 50,000 soldiers, police and other security personnel in the city after [...]
Washington Post: The Obama administration is abandoning its policy of using nationality to determine which U.S.-bound international air travelers should be subject to additional screening and will instead select passengers based on possible matches to intelligence information, including physical descriptions or a particular travel pattern, senior officials said Thursday. After the attempted bombing of an [...]
(Reuters) – CBS News reported late Friday that Joseph Cassano, the former AIG executive closely linked with the giant insurer’s near collapse in September 2008, will meet with U.S. Justice Department attorneys next week in what will probably end the two-year criminal investigation into the company — with no criminal charges likely to be filed. [...]
Politico: CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A guy who flew all the way from Cleveland to quiz President Obama today wanted to know why the self-described green president doesn’t have a hybrid. “The limo that you drive … electric sometime soon?” he asked to applause. “I’m going to be honest with you,” Obama replied. “When I first [...]
Politico: The White House’s aggressive drive to recalibrate its message and emphasize the issues it thinks will resonate best with voters could be upended if — as is widely expected — John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court’s senior justice, decides it is time to retire. The retirement of the court’s 89-year-old liberal stalwart would confront [...]
DALLAS (AP) – Neosoul singer Erykah Badu faces a disorderly conduct charge for her nude music video shoot in downtown Dallas’ Dealey Plaza, officials announced Friday. Badu, a Dallas native, performed a walking striptease in front of tourists and pedestrians during the March 13 shoot for Badu’s “Window Seat” music video. The performance ended with [...]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Animal rights activists yelled “puppy killer” and obscenities at a retired Los Angeles County assistant fire chief Friday after he was sentenced to 90 days in jail for beating a dog so severely with a rock it had to be euthanized. In a Riverside courtroom full of activists and a handful [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. government is refining its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travelers’ nationalities. The new policy replaces a security requirement put in place after the attempted bombing of a jetliner en route to Detroit on Christmas Day that singled out people from 14 countries that have been [...]
“I looked into his eyes” CARACAS, April 2 (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Venezuela on Friday to discuss oil, defense and nuclear energy cooperation with Latin America’s main leftist foe of the United States, President Hugo Chavez. They were to launch a $20 billion venture between Russian firms and Venezuelan state company [...]
(Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered eight members of a militia group held in custody until they could be tried on accusations of plotting to kill police officers and wage a war on the U.S. government. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Scheer said each defendant posed a flight risk and “would constitute an [...]
