Pat Dollard

“Manning wrote he had copied onto compact discs “possibly the largest data spillage in American history” while listening and lip-synching to Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.”

The Arizona Republic: Arizona’s new illegal-immigration enforcement law has raised a host of concerns from critics, but none more prevalent than the pervasive fear that the law will lead police officers to target those who look Hispanic. Those concerns are not unfounded. It has happened in Arizona before. Racial profiling – stopping and questioning individuals [...]

PARIS (AFP) – The world’s biggest atom smasher has scaled up in power even faster than hoped for and may soon unlock some of the universe’s deepest secrets, scientists said Monday at a top physics conference. After a shaky start and a 14-month delay, experiments at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have in a few [...]

Politico: Former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo is moving ahead with a third-party campaign for governor, jeopardizing Republican chances of capturing the Democratic-held seat this fall. The conservative Republican and anti-illegal immigration activist’s decision follows a threat he issued last week to GOP candidates Scott McInnis and Dan Maes: Drop out of the race after the [...]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Tony Hayward, who became the face of BP’s flailing efforts to contain the massive Gulf oil spill, will step down as chief executive in October and be offered a job with the company’s joint venture in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The person spoke on condition of [...]

MADRID (AP) – A Spanish man who underwent the world’s first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery, thanking his doctors and the family of the donor. Identified only as Oscar, the 31-year-old spoke with considerable difficulty at a news conference at Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron hospital, where [...]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – A Kentucky Democrat running for U.S. Senate says former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is tarnishing his family legacy by appearing at a fundraiser on behalf of Republican Rand Paul. Bush is set to attend a fundraiser for Paul’s U.S. Senate campaign in Louisville on Monday, the 20th anniversary of the Americans [...]

The Hill: The majority of the nation’s seniors have little understanding of what the Democrats’ newly enacted healthcare law actually does, according to poll results released Monday. The survey, sponsored by the National Council on Aging (NCOA), an advocate for seniors, found that only 17 percent of respondents could answer even half of the 12 [...]

New York Times: WASHINGTON — The White House sought to reassert control over the public debate on the Afghanistan war on Monday as political reaction to the disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased the pressure on President Obama to defend his war strategy. On Capitol Hill, leading Democratic lawmakers said the [...]

Washington Post: White House officials and their allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan sought Monday to play down the political and military impact of the unauthorized release of thousands of classified Afghan war documents, saying they portray a reality on the ground that is already largely known. The secret documents released by the group WikiLeaks.org reveal, [...]