Politico: Gen. David Petraeus will be given the “flexibility†to submit recommendations on the Afghanistan strategy once he arrives there, but he is on board with the overall approach, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today. “The president has established the strategy, but from my perspective, Gen. Petraeus will have the flexibility to look at the [...]
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Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is planning a high-risk, high-stakes strategy for bringing climate and energy legislation to the floor ahead of the August recess.
“We’re giving relief to people that I deal with in my office every day now unfortunately. But because of the longevity of this recession, these are people — and they’re not minorities and they’re not defective and they’re not all the things you’d like to insinuate that these programs are about — these are average, [...]
The Hill: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday twice ripped Senate Republicans for blocking legislation containing extended unemployment benefits. “What did middle-class families ever do to Republicans in the Senate that they would snuff out every opportunity for job creation that has been sent to them?” Pelosi said at an afternoon press conference with [...]
Press TV is a 24-hour English language global news network owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). Its headquarters are located in Tehran, Iran, with worldwide bureaus in Beirut (Lebanon), Damascus (Syria), London (UK), Seoul (South Korea), and Washington, D.C. (USA). Press TV: Kabul circles say the dismissal of US commander was over [...]
The Hill: Congress on Thursday overwhelmingly passed the conference report on the Iran sanctions bill. The House passed the bill on a vote of 408-8 Thursday evening. The Senate, with a vote of 99-0 earlier Thursday, also cleared the legislation. Now President Barack Obama just has to sign the bill for it to become law. [...]
RIA Novosti: Iran will announce new conditions for international talks on its nuclear program to the Iran-6 group of international mediators next week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted by Fars news agency as saying on Thursday. “We want to hold negotiations, but we have new conditions, which I will disclose next week,” he said. Western [...]
The Guardian: There’s little that shouts “seriously rich” as much as a little island in the sun to call your own. For Sir Richard Branson it is Neckar in the Caribbean, the billionaire Barclay brothers prefer Brecqhou in the Channel Islands, while Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy on Skorpios, his Greek hideway. Now Greece is [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans on Thursday defeated Democrats’ showcase election-year jobs bill, including an extension of weekly unemployment benefits for millions of people out of work more than six months. The 57-41 vote fell three votes short of the 60 required to crack a GOP filibuster, delivering a major blow to President Barack Obama and [...]
CNS News: President Barack Obama’s nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, Robert N. Chatigny, did legal work as a private defense attorney in 1992 for convicted serial killer Michael Ross and then, in 2005, as a federal district judge, led a proceeding that resulted in a delay in [...]
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters. Finding the 300-foot-long L.R. Doty was important because it was the [...]
Fox News: The Obama administration has been holding behind-the-scenes talks to determine whether the Department of Homeland Security can unilaterally grant legal status on a mass basis to illegal immigrants, a former Bush administration official who spoke with at least three people involved in those talks told FoxNews.com. The issue was raised publicly by eight [...]
MSNBC: by Howard Fineman WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is a grumpy guy these days. At least that’s the buzz among friends and associates. He’s never been a fan of Washington social life, and draws no emotional sustenance from the ceremonial aspects of his job. He prefers spending time with his wife and daughters at [...]
