PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A Coast Guard official says crews are searching the Delaware River off Philadelphia after a woman called a hospital drug counselor and said she had thrown her baby and two young children from a bridge. Petty Officer Michael Blake says the woman called St. Joseph’s Hospital early Tuesday morning, saying she had [...]
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 9 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama attacked the economic policies of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush in Bush’s home state on Monday as evidence of the way Republicans would operate if given power in Nov. 2 U.S. congressional elections. At a fund-raising event for Democrats in Dallas, where Bush now lives, [...]
Fox News: WASHINGTON– State Department officials on Monday confirmed Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, will soon be going on a trip of the Middle East and the U.S. government will be picking up the tab. The planned construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City has [...]
NBC: The Department of Homeland Security warned Metro about an unconfimed threat to the D.C. Metro system on Sunday. NBC4 obtained an internal memo from Homeland Security about the concern. Someone traveled to Turkey last July to obtain a U.S. visa to come to the States to blow up an unspecified Metro station, the memo [...]
Fox News: House Democrats are rolling the dice Tuesday after returning from a recess that had barely begun to pass a $26 billion teacher jobs bill — at a time when calls for fiscal restraint are dominating the campaign landscape. Democrats and Obama administration officials say the package is paid for and will not add [...]
Los Angeles Times: SEOUL —On the 100th anniversary Tuesday of Japan’s annexation of the Korean peninsula, office worker Hwang Jung-won listened as Japan’s prime minister apologized for his nation’s role in decades of harsh colonial rule. But like many others here, she wasn’t convinced of the sincerity of this latest mea-culpa. “An apology is better [...]
The Hill: House Democrats are planning more than 100 events around this week’s anniversary of Social Security to attack Republicans who want to reform the popular entitlement. Democrats and interest groups on the left have scheduled “birthday parties†and other events to highlight Saturday’s 75th anniversary of the program signed into law by President Franklin [...]
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia fought a deadly battle Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites as alarm mounted over the impact on health of a toxic smoke cloud shrouded over Moscow. Two soldiers were killed by blazing trees as they worked to put out a fire dangerously close to Russia’s main nuclear research [...]
Wall Street Journal: As President Obama sinks in the polls, Democrats and liberal pundits inevitably are searching for a scapegoat. The most likely victim appears to be gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden, who has become the focus of speculation that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just might replace him on the 2012 Democratic ticket. Former [...]
Washington Post: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that the Pentagon will cut thousands of jobs, including a substantial chunk of its private contractors and a major military command based in Norfolk, as part of an ongoing effort to streamline its operations and to stave off political pressure to slash defense spending in the [...]
The Hill: The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity. During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plane carrying nine people — including former Sen. Ted Stevens and former NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe — crashed in southwest Alaska, killing five people on board, authorities said Tuesday. It was unclear whether Stevens or O’Keefe were among the dead. Reports from officials in Alaska were that nine people were aboard [...]
Politico: It’s a hope so audacious that few Republicans will even acknowledge it out loud: the possibility that the balance of power in the Senate might be up for grabs in November. The GOP would have to take 10 seats, knocking off virtually every targeted Democratic incumbent and sweeping the open seats held by both [...]
