Los Angeles Times: Reporting from San Francisco — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is ordering a review of the future role of the Marine Corps amid ” anxiety” that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had turned the service into a “second land army.” The review would seek to define a 21st century combat mission [...]
Washington (AP) – – Virginia police on Thursday said that Elias Abuelazam, an Israeli man arrested in the United States for alleged involvement in a string of 18 stabbings that left five dead, apprently chose his victims by their skin color. Abuelazam was stopped while trying to board a Delta Air Lines flight to Tel [...]
Washington Post: Of all the spending cuts and budget battles the Pentagon is confronting, none is causing more angst than Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s vow to start getting rid of generals and admirals. By almost any measure, the military is more top-heavy an institution than it has been for decades. Today, there are 40 [...]
The Hill: The American public has a more positive view of the Tea Party movement than both leaders of the majority party in Congress, according to a poll released Wednesday.
The Hill: Wall Street gave a thumbs-down to the economy as the Dow Jones slipped into the red for the year. The Dow Jones tumbled 265 points on Wednesday amid growing worries that the world economy is weakening. The pessimism from traders came one day after the Federal Reserve downgraded its outlook for the economic [...]
Arizona Republic: Interim Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley on Thursday released hundreds of pages of grand-jury testimony and other documents showing failed attempts by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas to obtain criminal charges against county officials. Grand-jury proceedings are secret, but a Superior Court judge unsealed the records “in the furtherance [...]
Store security for Forever 21 at the Hollywood/Highland shopping center tackled and applied a crude choke-hold to a deaf shopper who was apparently unaware that the store’s alarm had gone off as he exited the store.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon says it believes the next document dump by WikiLeaks will be even more damaging to national security and the war effort than the organization’s initial release of some 76,000 war files. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Thursday that the military believes it has identified the additional 15,000 classified documents [...]
CBS: BELLE HARBOR, N.Y. (CBS 2) – On Thursday afternoon flight attendant Steven Slater came out of his house and thanked his supporters. But, as CBS 2′s Pablo Guzman reports, where he has told â€one†story, passengers are saying there was a whole other side of him that’s quite different from the folk hero and [...]
Politico: A New Hampshire Democrat who joked about Sarah Palin’s death has resigned from the state’s House of Representatives and ended his campaign for reelection, he announced today in a public letter to the House Speaker, apologizing for bringing “this House into disrepute.” Rep. Timothy Horrigan had speculated yesterday on Facebook that a slain Palin [...]
Washington Times: Two key sheriffs along the Arizona-Mexico border on Tuesday called a planned visit by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton a “political stunt” and described as “pathetic” Obama administration attempts to “cover up its inaction in protecting our borders.” “The administration blew past their promised Aug. 1 deadline to send [...]
Washington Times: As the Obama administration is touting the success of its “reset” in relations with Russia, America’s former Cold War rival is challenging key U.S. policies.
