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Criminally negligent bird WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The State Department said in a statement Tuesday that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that’s been accepted. The identities of [...]

New Orleans (AP) – -Alex has become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and is churning through the western Gulf, taking aim at the Mexico-Texas border while staying far away from the massive oil spill. Alex had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph late Tuesday. The National Hurricane Center says the Category 1 storm [...]

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann tweeted in reaction: Larry King is a lovely, generous man who tried, for eight years, to convince his bosses to hire me to be his 8 PM lead-in at CNN. Mediaite: Larry King wrote on his blog (and he will say this tonight on the show at 9pmET): I talked to the [...]

Fox News: Obama administration officials say the arrest of 11 people accused of being part of a Russian spy ring is a mere bump in the road to better relations with America’s former Cold War foe. The White House and the State Department both downplayed the implications of the blockbuster investigation, which revealed an elaborate [...]

At the time of our Founding Fathers, their right to revolution was largely based on the intolerably unjust act of Taxation Without Representation. Today, as taxation is now a governmental criminal enterprise, we all are entitled to the full rights of full revolution based on the intolerably unjust Federal Government act of the Criminalization of [...]

The Hill: Leading Senate advocates of climate change legislation emerged from a White House meeting proclaiming President Barack Obama offered firm support for including greenhouse gas curbs in the broad energy package slated for Senate debate this summer. “The president was very clear about putting a price on carbon and limiting greenhouse gas emissions,” Sen. [...]

The Hill: The arrests of as many as 11 alleged Russian spies in the U.S. will not disrupt U.S.-Russian relations, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Gibbs referred most questions regarding the arrests to the State Department, but he did say the arrests will do nothing to damage “our moves to reset the [...]

Politico: Key Senate Democrats offered, during a White House meeting with President Barack Obama and skeptical Republicans on Tuesday, to scale back their ambitious plans to cap greenhouse gases across multiple sectors of the economy. Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman told reporters after the 90-minute West Wing meeting that Obama held firm in his [...]

Times Of London: General David Petraeus, the man chosen by President Obama to take command in Afghanistan, wants to review the rules of engagement as part of a pledge to exert relentless pressure on the Taleban. Appearing before the US Senate Armed Services Committee after the sacking last week of his predecessor, General Stanley McChrystal, [...]

Townhall: Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the Second Amendment to the Constitution means that individual Americans have a right to bear arms, what can we expect? Those who have no confidence in ordinary Americans may expect a bloodbath, as the benighted masses start shooting each other, now that [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — No matter where they look, investors are seeing economic trouble. Stocks and interest rates plunged Tuesday after signs of slowing economies from China to the U.S. spooked traders who were already uneasy about a global recovery. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 268 points, or 2.7 percent, and dropped below 10,000. [...]

Guardian: Barack Obamas candidate to run the war in Afghanistan today pledged America’s “enduring” commitment to the country, described Afghan security as “tenuous” and called the presidential deadline for starting withdrawals next summer only “the beginning of a process”. General David Petraeus, catapulted into the job by the dramatic sacking of General Stanley McChrystal last [...]

(Reuters) – A congressional panel is poised to take the first step toward ending a decades-old U.S. ban on travel to Cuba and removing other hurdles to food sales to the Caribbean island, a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday. “This bill has been needed for a long time,” House of Representatives Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin [...]

Fox News: A California congressman known for edgy sarcasm mocked an opponent of illegal immigration during a town hall meeting last week, asking, “Who are you going to kill today?” before the constituent, a self-identified Minuteman, posed his question. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., no stranger to controversy, mocked the idea that the borders are not [...]

BBC: Allegations that Moscow ran a spy ring in the US are baseless and a throwback to the Cold War, a Russian foreign ministry official has said. The claims had set back attempts by President Barack Obama to reset ties with Moscow, the official added. The response comes a day after 10 people were arrested [...]

The Hill: Americans are preparing for a “political rebellion” the likes of which haven’t been seen since 1776, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in an interview published Tuesday morning.