Fox News: The heat is on Turkey to cool it with Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen has told Turkey it must join the international coalition seeking to contain Iran. Speaking in Ankara over the weekend Mullen said “The mutual goal of Iran not achieving a nuclear-weapons capability, that we completely agree [...]
KABUL (Reuters) – Several hundred Afghans chanting “Death to America” rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to protest against an American church’s plan to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The protesters, mostly students from religious schools, gathered outside Kabul’s Milad ul-Nabi mosque [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending in the nation’s roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he’s trying to stimulate the sputtering economy. The infrastructure spending is part of a package of targeted proposals the White House announced on Monday. [...]
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutchman charged with killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman and suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway has acknowledged extorting money from Holloway’s parents and says he did it to get back at them, according to an interview published Monday. The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf quoted Joran van der Sloot [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman’s son said Monday. There was no official confirmation of the new sentence. The [...]
Politico: House Democratic leaders are pumping rank-and-file lawmakers for more campaign money as they hope to forestall Machiavellian decisions to cut off incumbents with dim prospects for winning reelection. On a conference call last week, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) briefed fellow leaders on the “state of play” two months before [...]
Fox News: Some measures on illegal immigration to the United States have improved, but the Obama administration is ignoring violence spilling into the U.S. from Mexico, Arizona Sen. John McCain said Sunday. The 2008 Republican presidential candidate noted that 28,000 Mexican citizens have been murdered in the drug war in Mexico, with 72 individuals, including [...]
Yahoo News: Just how bad could things get for the Democrats when voters head to the polls in November? Two years after they handed President Barack Obama a sweeping electoral victory — and four years after turning control of Congress over to the Democrats in frustration over Bush Administration policies — the president and his [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The family of the late Robert C. Byrd blasted the GOP nominee for his U.S. Senate seat Sunday after he used an image from Byrd’s memorial service in a TV ad attacking the Democratic nominee. The ad by Republican John Raese’s campaign seeks to link President Barack Obama to Gov. Joe [...]
Related – Study: Third World Residents Have Lower Intelligence KINSHASA, Congo (AP) – Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo’s vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday. Early on Saturday, a boat [...]
The Hill: Labor groups will be invited to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to talk about an alarming shortfall in state employee pension plans that some believe could lead to a new government bailout. Randy Johnson, the Chamber’s senior vice president for Labor, Immigration and Employee Benefits, told The Hill the total shortfall for state [...]
The Hill: Presidential adviser David Plouffe on Sunday cast the November elections as a choice between “the right path” for the country’s fiscal health, or an “assault” on middle-class families under Republican rule. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Plouffe, who managed President Obama’s successful 2008 campaign, said Republicans created the current economic recession and [...]
Oakland Tribune: “Small victory,” was all it said on the subject line of Karen Meredith’s e-mail. But for the Silicon Valley military mom, who lost her son in the Iraq war, the decision this week by U.S. military base exchanges not to carry the controversial “Medal of Honor” video game was still great news. “I’m [...]
