Pat Dollard

Politico: A leak in a mechanism meant to prevent an oil spill could be the culprit in the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a House committee investigating the incident. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, holding a hearing Wednesday, seems to have made significant headway in its investigation into the massive [...]

The Hill: Unemployment is likely to surge above 10 percent over the next few months as millions of “missing” workers return to the labor market. This will pose a huge challenge for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats, who want to run in 2010 on the back of a strengthening economy. conomist Mark Zandi expects [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing President Barack Obama’s student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney’s office said a grand jury returned the indictments in U.S. District Court in Davenport. All nine are charged with [...]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States and other Western nations on Thursday against imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Interfax news agency reported. The European Union has said it may impose unilateral sanctions if a U.N. Security Council resolution fails. U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration has [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Gulf of Mexico oil spill hasn’t stained President Barack Obama nor dimmed the public’s desire for offshore energy drilling, according to a new Associated Press-GfK Poll. While some conservative pundits, such as Rush Limbaugh, have called this “Obama’s Katrina,” that’s not how the public feels, the poll found. BP PLC, which [...]

Fox News: In the first four months of this fiscal year, drug prosecutions in Arizona have jumped 202 percent since 2008 while the rest of the country has seen a 17 percent drop, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which oversees federal law-enforcement programs. As the number of drug prosecutions falls across the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Al-Qaida operatives who have been detained for years in Iran have been making their way quietly in and out of the country, raising the prospect that Iran is loosening its grip on the terror group so it can replenish its ranks, former and current U.S. intelligence officials say. This movement could indicate [...]

Times Online: Oil companies face an immediate tax rise of 1 cent per barrel to help to pay for the clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico under proposed legislation rushed out by the White House yesterday. The measure, unveiled as BP began a new attempt to contain the ruptured well that has leaked millions of [...]

Jerusalem Post: Israel’s ties with the European Union remain strong, but are unlikely to be upgraded when the action plan for its bilateral relations expires in June, diplomatic sources told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. That plan, which exists under the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy that seeks to tie countries to the east [...]

Daily Mail: Jupiter has lost one of its iconic red stripes and scientists are baffled as to why. The largest planet in our solar system is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere, with one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere. However, the most recent images taken by amateur [...]