Pat Dollard

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials said Wednesday that firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal would disrupt progress in the war and could jeopardize a pivotal security operation under way in Taliban strongholds in the south. At the end of a one-hour video conference Tuesday night with President Barack Obama, Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his confidence [...]

(Reuters) Soros said the euro was an incomplete currency from the start as the European Union’s Maastricht Treaty established a monetary union without a political union. “The euro is a patently flawed construct,” Soros, who earned $1 billion in 1992 by betting against the British pound, said in the text of a speech for delivery [...]

CNS News: The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a liberal consumer advocacy organization, has announced it will sue McDonald’s unless the fast-food franchise stops using toys to market its “Happy Meals” to children. “This morning, CSPI notified McDonald’s that we will file a lawsuit against the company unless it stops using toys [...]

Politico: President Barack Obama may end up firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal — but he’s stuck with the strategy McChrystal helped put in place and is trying to execute. The Afghan commander, who offered to resign Tuesday after his aides trashed, among others, the “wimps” in the White House, shaped what may end up being Obama’s [...]

Landon Donovan celebrates after scoring the eventual winning goal in stoppage time against Algeria on Wednesday. (Jim Brown / US Presswire) Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Pretoria, South Africa — Landon Donovan’s goal in extra time lifted the U.S. to a dramatic 1-0 win over Algeria on Wednesday, sending the U.S. on to the second [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Afghanistan war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal privately discussed his blistering interview with President Barack Obama Wednesday, but his fate remained unknown as a formal White House war session got under way as planned. McChrystal was seen leaving the West Wing and climbing into a van after his nearly half-hour showdown with the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new homes collapsed in May, sinking 33 percent to the lowest level on record as potential buyers stopped shopping for homes once they could no longer receive government tax credits. The bleak report from the Commerce Department is the first sign of how the end of federal tax credits could [...]

The Hill: Arizona Democrats facing tough reelection races are distancing themselves from the Obama administration as it prepares to file a lawsuit against the state over its controversial immigration law. Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.) on Monday sent a sharply worded letter to President Barack Obama urging him not to sue. “I believe your administration’s time, [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – Pro football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was indicted Wednesday by a suburban New York grand jury on charges of third-degree rape and patronizing a prostitute. The indictment follows his May 6 arrest at a Holiday Inn in Ramapo, N.Y., where prosecutors say he paid a 16-year-old girl $300 to have [...]

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