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WASHINGTON (AP) — The failed bombing in New York’s Times Square is a possible signal that militant leaders in Pakistan have shifted their focus to targets in the U.S. and other Western countries instead of sticking to their home base, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials. The attack, they also warned, could be only the first [...]

Washington (AP) – – Despite facing fierce criticism from her supporters, Tea Party hero Sarah Palin isn’t backing down from her endorsement of former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina in the GOP’s U.S. Senate primary in California. Palin’s endorsement surprised and outraged many of her supporters who expected her to pick Tea Party favorite Chuck DeVore. [...]

Washington (AP) – – Suspected US missiles struck a house in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing five people in the latest American strike targeting militant leaders, intelligence officials said. The strikes were in North Waziristan, a tribal region that has long been a haven for Taliban- and al-Qaida-linked militant networks battling American and NATO forces [...]

(Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev struck a conciliatory note at Russia’s Victory Day military parade on Sunday, urging world powers to unite for peace and defending his decision to invite NATO troops to march on Red Square. For the first time since Stalin began commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, serving U.S., British [...]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — About 200 protesters squared off with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio over Arizona’s tough new immigration law before he spoke to a conservative group in Las Vegas. For about 20 minutes Friday, the sheriff stood just feet from protesters outside Stoney’s Rockin’ Country bar and dance hall as demonstrators yelled “Arpaio [...]

White trash whose spawn should be hunted down and killed like animals in the street The Hill: Vice President Joseph Biden on Saturday addressed the press with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and pledged the U.S. would support efforts to stem the financial crisis that has befallen Greece and potentially other countries within [...]

SEATTLE (AP) — A video showing Seattle police officers stomping on a man’s head and body and using a racial epithet has prompted an internal investigation by authorities and disgust from the mayor. One of the officers involved, a 15-year veteran, apologized at a Friday night news conference for his “hateful words.” The incident occurred [...]

The Hill: One of the country’s most political powerful unions elected its new president Saturday. Mary Kay Henry has stepped in as president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Henry was the surprise victor who snapped up support quickly among the union’s 73-member international executive board in her campaign for the top spot where [...]

Los Angeles Times: When an executive runs a company whose success depends on stars — whether they are richly rewarded TV news anchors or generously compensated movie idols — it is only fitting that the boss is paid, well, like a star. Call it the Katie Co uric Syndrome. That’s one take-away from a Los [...]

Fox News: Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah has been ousted in his bid to serve a fourth term after failing to make it out of the Utah GOP convention. Attorney Mike Lee and businessman Tim Bridgewater are the remaining Republican candidates after Saturday’s vote. After a third round of voting, neither nominee received [...]

Politico: Federal investigators probing the “flash crash” that briefly sliced nearly 1,000 points off the Dow Thursday are zeroing in on a series of “unusually high-volume” trades in S&P futures that originated in Chicago, a government official told POLITICO. Those trades set off a chain reaction of trades that caused the biggest drop within a [...]

NY Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Obama administration has delivered new and stiff warnings to Pakistan after the failed Times Square car bombing that it must urgently move against the nexus of Islamic militancy in the country’s lawless tribal regions, American and Pakistani officials said. The American military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, [...]