BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Eight people leaving a party at a downtown Buffalo restaurant were shot early Saturday, four of them fatally, including a Texas man who had returned to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, police said. Managers had decided to close the City Grill in the city’s business district after an [...]
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) – A warden and a security official have resigned their posts at an Arizona state prison where three inmates escaped last month, setting off a nationwide search, according to news reports. Unit Warden Lori Lieder and a unit security chief resigned earlier this week from Arizona State Prison at Kingman, Carl Stuart [...]
B. Hussein Obama is pictured in a TV camera’s viewfinder as he delivers remarks during the Iftar dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington August 13, 2010. The Iftar dinner celebrates the evening breaking of fast during the satanic cult called Islam’s unholy month of Ramadan. WASHINGTON (AFP) – US [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered “bodies everywhere” moments after sailing off a jump at a California race Saturday, killing eight people and leaving 12 injured, authorities and witnesses said. The crash came shortly after the start of the 8 p.m. PDT race called the California 200, said [...]
The Guardian: Richard Gaines is one of the best-known faces on Camden’s Haddon Avenue. It is a rough-and-tumble street, lined with cheap businesses and boarded-up houses, and is prey to drug gangs. Gaines, 50, runs a barbershop, a hair salon and a fitness business. He works hard and is committed to his community. But Haddon [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama on Saturday sought to defuse the controversy over his remarks on plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero, insisting that he wasn’t endorsing the specific project but making a general plea for religious tolerance toward all. “In this country we treat everybody equally and in accordance with the law, regardless [...]
Mediaite: CNN’s Ed Henry caught up with President Barack Obama during his Gulf vacation today, and it seems the president would like to add an asterisk to his comments last night on the Islamic center near Ground Zero.
Los Angeles Times: In an emergency appeal now before a federal court, the backers of Proposition 8 have asked for a permanent hold on last week’s “egregiously selective and one-sided” marriage ruling, contending it flouted the law and ignored the evidence. The request to prevent the resumption of same-sex marriages in California next week is [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama used the anniversary of Social Security to trumpet Democrats’ support for the popular program and accuse Republicans of trying to destroy it. Seventy-five years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday: “We have an obligation to [...]
Related: Border Patrol Agent X Washington Times: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday said the administration has “enough” resources to secure the border now that President Obama signed into law a $600 million border security spending bill, and she said Congress must now act on a larger overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws. “This [...]
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Washington Post: Democrats have no illusions about what they’re up against this fall: a terrible economic climate, a sour electorate and a sizable enthusiasm gap. There’s little that President Obama and Democrats can do between now and November to change the economy’s trajectory, other than hope for better job numbers in September and October — [...]
Los Angeles Times: Last summer things were so hot that “the bottoms of our shoes melted,” said Lucio Rivera. But not this year. “This summer’s been perfect,” the paving company worker said this week as he applied striping to a freshly resurfaced roadway at Pierce College in Woodland Hills. It was a comfortable 77 degrees, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A check from Uncle Sam gets your attention, even if the money doesn’t help that much with the bills. More than 750,000 Medicare recipients with high prescription costs each got a $250 government check this summer, and 3 million-plus more checks are going out to people who land in the program’s anxiety-inducing [...]
The Hill: Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) told town hall participants at the Fremont County Administration Building on Thursday that the economy would “explode†if Congress followed his lead on bringing demand back to the marketplace. “If we did these three things, our economy would explode,†he said, as reported by the Canon City Daily Record. [...]
