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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Monday that its review of the leak of secret military documents on the war in Afghanistan would take “days if not weeks” and that it was too soon to assess their damage. WikiLeaks, an organization promoting the leaking of information to fight corporate and government corruption, on Sunday [...]

Politico: The White House responded swiftly and sharply to publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents painting a bleak picture of the Afghanistan war, calling the leak “irresponsible” and saying that the source – the whistleblower website WikiLeaks — “opposes U.S. policy in Afghanistan.” WikiLeaks said its “Afghan War Diary” consists mostly of [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to cut off oil sales to the United States if Venezuela is attacked by its U.S.-allied neighbor Colombia in a dispute over allegations that Venezuela gives haven to Colombian rebels. Chavez made his warning in an outdoor speech to thousands of supporters, saying: “If there [...]

Washington Post: Tens of thousands of classified documents related to the Afghan war released without authorization by the group Wikileaks.org reveal in often excruciating detail the struggles U.S. troops have faced in battling an increasingly potent Taliban force and in working with Pakistani allies who also appear to be helping the Afghan insurgency. The more [...]

Fox News: A Republican-appointed member of the panel probing why voter intimidation charges were dropped against the New Black Panther Party said Sunday that the case was flimsy and stood by an earlier claim that some of her colleagues are hammering the issue to bring down Attorney General Eric Holder. Abigail Thernstrom, vice chairwoman of [...]

Obama’s “double-talk” revealed… The Australian: THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison. The intervention, which [...]

New York Times: This article is by Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, Eric Schmitt and Andrew W. Lehren. Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for [...]

The Hill: Some families may face higher insurance premiums because of a requirement in the new healthcare law that plans cover sick children, state insurance commissioners said Friday. The rule barring insurance plans from turning away sick children or denying coverage for specific illnesses for children who are already covered was one of the most [...]

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Washington Post: President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress are setting the stage for a high-stakes battle over taxes in the final weeks before the November congressional elections, betting that their plan to eliminate tax breaks for the wealthy will resonate with voters who have lost houses and jobs to what many see as an [...]