C-Net: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images [...]
Politico: A new poll of Arab public opinion finds a significant drop in Arab world views of President Obama from a year ago. The 2010 Arab Public Opinion poll will be released Thursday at the Brookings Institution by Shibley Telhami, of the University of Maryland and Brookings’ Saban Center for Middle East Policy. The annual [...]
L.A. Times: Reporting from Washington — The Senate on Thursday overcame a Republican-led filibuster to advance a $26.1-billion package of state aid that would help keep nearly 140,000 teachers on the job nationwide and continue extra funding for healthcare services to low-income households during the recession. Governors from nearly every state – including California — [...]
The Hill: President Obama will likely become a “born-again moderate†after the November elections, according to the Senate’s top Republican. In an interview with The Hill this week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) acknowledged that Obama doesn’t call him very often. But he thinks that will be changing soon. “Frankly, I think how much [...]
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan on Wednesday, a source in his office said. The source said Ahmadinejad’s convoy was targeted as he was traveling from Hamadan’s airport to give a speech in a [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama’s health care law, sending a clear message of discontent to Washington and Democrats less than 100 days before the midterm elections. About 71 percent of Missouri voters backed a ballot measure, Proposition C, that would prohibit the [...]
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(AP) – “But union officials said Mr. Thornton never registered an official complaint. “He never filed anything with the union,†said Christopher Roos, an official with Teamsters Local 1035 official. “As far as I know there was never a state claim or a federal claim. Mr. Thornton was brought into the officer about a disciplinary [...]
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Fox News: President Obama disagrees with the Pakistani president’s conclusion that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is already lost because of the failure to win over the Afghan people, the White House said Tuesday. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari told the French daily Le Monde online that the U.S.-led coalition had “underestimated the situation on [...]
ABC News: The Obama administration has credited its $862 billion stimulus program with pulling the economy out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. But a new report by two Republican senators argues the stimulus is riddled with wasteful projects that do not create jobs. The report, released by Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and [...]
Fox News: It sounds like the plot of a B-movie, yet it’s bizarrely true: Radioactive boars are on the loose and thriving in Germany’s forests. A succession of mild winters has left Germany scrambling to deal with a skyrocketing wild boar population. Tales of swarming beasts rampaging through city streets and attacking citizens occur with [...]
The Hill: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said it was his preference to address expiring tax cuts before the election, but acknowledged that it could slip until after the elections. Hoyer suggested on Tuesday he agreed with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who said this weekend that she hopes that Congress will act to extend [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) – More than 28,000 people have been killed in drug violence since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown against cartels in 2006, a government official said Tuesday. Intelligence agency director Guillermo Valdes also said authorities have confiscated about 84,000 weapons and made total cash seizures of $411 million in U.S. currency and [...]
