Fox News: Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy — video that now has forced the official to resign. Shirley Sherrod, the [...]
BBC: Female students wearing a full face veil will be barred from Syrian university campuses, the country’s minister of higher education has said. Ghiyath Barakat was reported to have said that the practice ran counter to the academic values and traditions of Syrian universities. His ruling, published on the All4Syria website, was said to be [...]
AZ Star: PHOENIX – Most Arizonans no longer think Barack Obama is doing a decent job as president. A new Behavior Research Poll released Sunday shows that nearly four out of every 10 Arizonans now rate Obama’s performance as poor or very poor. That’s up 5 points from the same survey taken in January. What’s [...]
Fox News: A young North Carolina man who has moved to Yemen appears to be the editor-in-chief of a flashy new Al Qaeda magazine that features bomb-making instructions and an article by Usama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Monday. Samir Khan, a 24-year-old American citizen who left the country last October, is believed to be [...]
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader mocked President Barack Obama for voicing confidence over victory in Afghanistan, in an Internet message posted on Monday. Ayman al-Zawahri also said Arab government leaders allied to the West were more harmful to the Palestinians than Israel. “Poor Obama comes to Kabul and he promises that Taliban shall [...]
Mediaite: During his “American Revival†meeting in Salt Lake City over the weekend, Glenn Beck revealed some disturbing news to his audience. He has apparently been diagnosed with macular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that affects the eyes and could lead to blindness. In an emotional moment — and I mean seriously emotional — Beck told [...]
The Hill: David Cameron’s first visit to the White House as Great Britain’s prime minister Tuesday will be shadowed by the problems of BP. The oil company at the center of the Gulf spill is one of the most important companies in Great Britain, since pension funds in the country are heavily invested in it. [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan —Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday unveiled an array of development projects — hydroelectric dams, municipal water supply overhauls, hospital makeovers, even a new mango export initiative — in hopes of chipping away at the perception many Pakistanis have of an arrogant U.S. oblivious to the power [...]
Fox News: Monday announced that the 1,200 National Guard troops pledged weeks ago by President Obama will deploy to the southwest border starting on Aug. 1. Alan Bersin, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said the troops would “support” the efforts of Department of Homeland Security personnel already operating on the border. “The Guard has [...]