Florida (Reuters) – Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Wednesday proposed legislation that would toughen law enforcement measures against illegal immigrants in the melting-pot state. McCollum, who is engaged in a tough election race as a Republican candidate for the state governorship, presented the proposed legislation in Orlando. His office said the proposed Florida immigration [...]
Haaretz: Israel might attack Iranian nuclear sites within a year, if Iran stays the current course and the U.S. administration doesn’t succeed in persuading Israel’s leadership that U.S. President Barack Obama is ready to stop Iran by force if necessary, so argues Jeffrey Goldberg in Atlantic magazine’s September cover story, obtained by Haaretz ahead of [...]
Financial Times: A preliminary US government investigation has found no evidence of defects in Toyota’s electronic throttle control systems, pointing instead to driver error as the main cause of accidents blamed on unintended acceleration. The findings, contained in a briefing by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to members of Congress on Tuesday, seemed to [...]
The Daily Mail: Iran has dug mass graves in which to bury U.S. troops in case of any American attack on the country, a commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard said today. He added that a military strike would spark an ‘extensive war’ in the region. The announcement appears to be a show of bravado [...]
The Guardian: Al-Qaida is attempting to make a comeback in Iraq by enticing scores of former Sunni allies to rejoin the terrorist group by paying them more than the monthly salary they currently receive from the government, two key US-backed militia leaders have told the Guardian. They said al-Qaida leaders were exploiting the imminent departure [...]
Politico: Michelle Obama endured a spate of bad press when commentators, incensed by her lavish Spanish vacation, compared her to a modern-day Marie Antoinette. But the first lady isn’t about to hide from the spotlight. In fact, her plans to campaign for Democrats in the upcoming mid-term elections are still on schedule, White House aides [...]
Politico: At first they were just angry. Now liberal critics are steaming mad. The Obama administration’s attempts to blunt press secretary Robert Gibbs’s frustrations about the “professional left†in a newspaper interview published Tuesday haven’t changed much. Gibbs’s backtracking — he said he spoke “inartfully†to The Hill — and deputy press secretary Bill Burton’s [...]
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The Hill: Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel defended himself on the House floor Tuesday, daring members to expel him. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) maintained that he did not intentionally break any House rules and complained about the investigation and trial process conducted by the House ethics panel, which has brought 13 charges against him. “It may [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – As recently as two months ago, the Federal Reserve sounded optimistic about the economic recovery. Now the central bank is taking a new step that shows it is clearly more worried, but economists say it probably won’t help much. The Fed said Tuesday that it would spend a relatively small amount of [...]
Fox News: Linda McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, was the last woman standing Tuesday in a battle royal -– this time in the political arena. McMahon won the GOP primary in Connecticut, crushing money manager Peter Schiff and former Rep. Rob Simmons, the one-time favorite who suspended his campaign months ago but [...]
Washington (AP) – Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plan to conduct a spacewalk on Wednesday to remove a broken ammonia pump, The Associated Press reported. If the operation is successful, a third spacewalk will be performed this weekend to replace the 780-pound machine. “This is a big, unwieldy object, so maneuvering it around and [...]
