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Fox News: A loose network of Mexican-American women, some of whom may be illegal immigrants, have been responsible for helping numerous Afghan military deserters go AWOL from an Air Force Base in Texas, FoxNews.com has learned. Many of the Afghans, with the women’s assistance, have made their way to Canada; the whereabouts of others remain [...]

Fox News: A group of liberal journalists in 2008 sought to sweep under the rug the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal that threatened to derail then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller, an online publication founded by Tucker Carlson, a conservative contributor for Fox News. The documents offer evidence to [...]

The Hill: Support for Democrats ticked upward in a generic ballot test against Republicans going into the fall’s midterm elections. A new Gallup poll released on Monday saw Democrats open up a six-point margin over the GOP, driven in part by a small bump in support by independents. Forty-nine percent of voters said they’d prefer [...]

Twin Cities: Police responded early Friday to a call of shots fired at a home in Roberts and found

Press TV: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blames the former Bush administration for the insecurity gripping Afghanistan amid rise in attacks against foreign troops. Clinton, who arrived in Kabul on Monday ahead of a key international conference on the future of peace and security in Afghanistan, held talks with the country’s President Hamid Karzai [...]

PR Newswire: SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Citing new information about Google’s classified government contracts and the Internet giant’s admitted Wi-Spying activity, Consumer Watchdog today said it is more imperative than ever for the Energy and Commerce Committee to conduct hearings into possible privacy violations by Google. In a letter to Committee Chairman [...]

The Guardian: The White House is revising its Afghanistan strategy to embrace the idea of negotiating with senior members of the Taliban through third parties – a policy to which it had previously been lukewarm. Negotiating with the Taliban has long been advocated by Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and the British and Pakistani governments, [...]

The Hill: A House committee has approved the creation of an official Tea Party Caucus, triggering praise from an outspoken Republican but creating a dilemma for some of her colleagues. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a favorite of the Tea Party movement, tweeted on Monday that the House Administration Committee had signed off on her request [...]