My Fox DC: A British teenager who sent an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity was banned from America for life, The Sun reported Monday. The FBI asked local cops to tell college student Luke Angel, 17, his drunken insult was “unacceptable.” Angel said he fired off a single email criticizing [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck teamed up in the former Alaska governor’s home state Saturday night, delivering their messages to a crowd of thousands and recalling their thoughts and feelings the day of the 9/11 attacks. Palin applauded the conservative commentator as an inspiration for millions, saying he represents why so [...]
Reporting from Jarf Sakhr, Iraq —Sheik Sabah Janabi wears a painful-looking metal brace on his left hand, its rods pressing into the puffy flesh like the spring on a mousetrap. He fumbles a Marlboro from a pack with his good hand, sucks in the smoke and frowns. In this farming town that was a center [...]
Financial Times: The state of Pennsylvania has stepped in to help its capital city Harrisburg avoid a default by advancing next year’s state aid so that the money can be used to make a $3.3m bond interest payment due this week. On Sunday, Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, announced a $4.3m cash transfer and [...]
The Hill: President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have a packed social schedule this week, with two major galas and a reception for college athletes. On Monday evening, the president will welcome collegiate star athletes to the White House for a reception at 5:45 p.m. The annual event, first held by former President George [...]
TORONTO (Reuters) – In his new film “The Conspirator,” director Robert Redford digs into a little-known angle of one of the best-known moments in American history: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Instead of dealing with the shooting in the Ford’s Theater in Washington, already a movie subject, Redford takes aim at a back story [...]
Arizona Republic: Barack Obama will give his second back-to-school speech at 10 a.m. Tuesday, streamed live to schoolchildren in Arizona and across the country. He will give the speech from a school in Philadelphia, although few other details are known. Last year, Obama’s inaugural talk caused a nationwide furor. Several Valley school districts fielded complaints [...]
Agencie France Presse: Economists peddling dire warnings that the world’s number one economy is on the brink of collapse, amid high rates of unemployment and a spiraling public deficit, are flourishing here. The guru of this doomsday line of thinking may be economist Nouriel Roubini, thrust into the forefront after predicting the chaos wrought by [...]
The Hill: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday that he would back a bill supporting the extension of tax cuts for the middle class if that’s all that is on the table, but stressed he’s pushing for extension of all the Bush-era tax cuts. “If the only option I have is to vote [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, a presumed leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva cartel and one of the country’s most-wanted fugitives, in a raid Sunday in the central state of Puebla, the government said. The alleged capo known as “El Grande” did not put up any resistance when he was [...]
The Hill: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) on Sunday strongly criticized Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam seeking to build an Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero. “He seems by his actions to be more interested in confrontation than in healing,†Giuliani said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The former mayor [...]
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