The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) holds a seven point lead over Republican challenger Sharron Angle in a poll released Friday. The Las Vegas Review-Journal/Mason-Dixon poll shows that, if the election was held today, Reid would defeat Angle 44-37 percent. Ten percent were undecided and five percent did not choose a candidate. Reid’s [...]
WTOP: WASHINGTON – A 3.6 magnitude earthquake woke the Washington metro region Friday, rattling homes and startling people. The U.S. Geological Survey says it happened at exactly 5:04:49 a.m. about 3 miles under the earth’s surface. Right after it happened calls from all around Maryland, Northern Virginia and as far away as West Virginia started [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington — Far-reaching legislation that would impose new environmental safeguards on offshore drilling, repeal oil-industry-friendly provisions of energy policy and hit producers with a new tax to fund conservation programs gained ground in Congress on Thursday. Acting as BP at least temporarily halted the flow of oil from its blown-out [...]
BBC: A man who says he is the renegade Afghan soldier who killed three British troops in Helmand province in Afghanistan has contacted the BBC. The man said he had been angry at the conduct of British troops and that he had acted alone. He said he had joined the Taliban after the attack. The [...]
Politico: Congress on Thursday approved a broad rewrite of the rules governing Wall Street, handing President Barack Obama his second major legislative victory and setting off a scramble to implement a 2,300-page bill that touches all corners of the economy. But before the last Senate vote was cast, Republicans vowed to rescind the measure, eliciting [...]
Los Angeles Times: Carly Fiorina may be closing in on California Sen. Barbara Boxer in recent polls, but reports released Thursday show the three-term incumbent with a vast advantage in one very important area: money. Campaign finance figures released by the campaigns showed Boxer with nearly 12 times the cash on hand as Fiorina — [...]
The Jerusalem Post: US President Barack Obama’s efforts to reach out to the people of Israel last week – when he hosted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a positive meeting at the White House and gave his first interview as president to an Israeli television station – were not very successful, according to a Smith [...]
BBC: More than 20 people have been killed and scores injured in a suspected twin suicide bomb attack at a Shia mosque in Iran, officials say. Iranian state media said at least 100 were hurt in the blasts outside the Jamia mosque in the south-eastern city of Zahedan. The attacks, in a largely Sunni area, [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lawyers for Mel Gibson and his estranged girlfriend squared off in court on Thursday in a bitter custody dispute over their baby daughter after a week of damaging, ranting phone calls leaked to an online web site. The now infamous tapes, which appear to feature Gibson cursing and threatening former girlfriend [...]
CBS News: New cuts may be coming to the Philadelphia Fire Department and they could include rolling closures of firehouses. What if you stopped by your local firehouse and found the firefighters who would normally be first to answer your call weren’t there at all that day? It could happen. The city announced as many [...]
Telegraph: Fight Without Rules is a vicious combination of boxing and karate where virtually anything goes, save eye-gouging and biting. It is incredibly popular in the south of Russia.
Jake Tapper’s Political Punch: Sources tell ABC News that Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn., has informed the White House that he would like to consider remaining in public service after his senate term ends at the end of this session, and White House officials are keeping an open mind about possible job openings for him. Specter, [...]
