Telegraph.U.K. KABUL, Afghanistan — Talks to end the war in Afghanistan involve extensive, face-to-face discussions with Taliban commanders from the highest levels of the group’s leadership, who are secretly leaving their sanctuaries in Pakistan with the help of NATO troops, officials here say. The discussions, some of which have taken place in Kabul, are unfolding [...]
Updated: Oct 19, 2010 6:20 PM TUCSON – U.S. Marshals and Tucson Police have caught one of America’s most wanted fugitives after 9 years on the run. U.S. Marhshals say Max Montijo-LaMadrid was caught today by Sonora State Investigative Police with the help of Marshals in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Montijo-LaMadrid was wanted for the first-degree [...]
WASHINGTON | Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:55pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government will spend up to $760 million to compensate American Indian farmers who were unfairly denied loans by the Agriculture Department, the Obama administration announced on Tuesday. “With today’s agreement, we take an important step forward in remedying USDA’s unfortunate civil rights [...]
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 (CNSNews.com) – For the second time in little over a month, President Barack Obama stripped the word “Creator” from the Declaration of Independence when giving a speech. “As wonderful as this land is here in the United States, as much as we have been blessed by the bounty of this magnificent [...]
October 19, 2010 KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — To the U.S. Army soldiers and Marines serving here, some things seem so obviously true that they are beyond debate. Among those perceived truths: Tthe restrictive rules of engagement that they have to fight under have made serving in combat far more dangerous for them, while allowing the Taliban [...]
WSJ. Polls in Colorado shows Tom Tancredo’s third-party bid for governor gaining steam, putting him within striking distance of front-runner John Hickenlooper, the Democratic mayor of Denver. Colorado Democratic candidate for governor, John Hickenlooper, left, and American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo at a forum Friday in Denver. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) A Fox News poll [...]
JPost DAMASCUS, Syria — Former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that Palestinians are “living in a cage” in Gaza and that the militant group Hamas must be included in all major efforts for peace. Carter was in Syria with an international group of veteran statesmen known as the Elders, which includes Ireland’s former President [...]
THE HILL President Obama is giving Republicans a 10-day window to set the agenda for a lame-duck session and the new legislative year by leaving the country right after the midterm elections. The timing of the president’s trip to Asia is worrying some Democrats, who believe it could cede further momentum to a resurgent Republican [...]
TELEGRAPH.UK. He was a square-jawed Canadian Air Force officer with a brilliant future, a man entrusted with flying prime ministers and Queen Elizabeth II. On Monday, he was exposed as a serial killer with a shocking fetish for girls’ panties that he documented in a trove of twisted photos of himself. At a hearing that [...]
N.Y.Times Bank of America said on Tuesday that it lost $7.3 billion for the third quarter, after taking a previously announced onetime $10.4 billion loss in its credit cards unit related to new rules governing the business. Excluding the charge, Bank of America reported $3.1 billion in net income, or 27 cents a share, a [...]
AP MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s largest-ever seizure of marijuana packaged for sale is even bigger than the original estimate of 105 tons and probably belonged to the powerful Sinaloa cartel, authorities said Tuesday. The government so far had counted 15,000 packages – 5,000 more than first announced after the seizure during early-morning raids Monday in [...]
WASHINGTON – The Defense Department said Tuesday that it is accepting openly gay recruits, but is warning applicants they might not be allowed to stick around for long. Following last week’s court ruling that struck down a 1993 law banning gays from serving openly, the military has suspended enforcement of the rule known as “don’t [...]
Guess whos on top…… CNS.News Oct 19, 2010 Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, in his first televised debate with Republican challenger Bob Ehrlich, repeatedly referred to people who come to this country illegally as “new Americans” on Monday night. In response to a question, O’Malley called illegal immigration “a huge challenge for our country” and he [...]
WHO: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. WHAT: Inhofe received $1,000 from General Motors’ Political Action Committee. WHY IT’S DIRTY: General Motors was the recipient of a $60 billion taxpayer bailout last year that has not been paid back, so the automaker has no right to curry congressional favor at Americans’ expense. WILL INHOFE GIVE IT BACK? [...]
CNN — There is a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever fatally shot two female postal workers Monday morning in a western Tennessee post office, federal postal authorities said. The incident in the town of Henning, about 50 miles northeast of Memphis, was reported shortly before 9 a.m. (10 [...]
Reporting from Sacramento — Upset that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed $256 million in child-care money for the poor, the state Assembly leader announced a proposal Monday to go around the governor and restore funding until a new chief executive takes office in January. The program pays child-care costs for working parents who take jobs to [...]
BLOOMINGTON, IN—A new study released Monday by sociologists at Indiana University found that women will always answer their telephones unless mind-blowing sex with a man other than the caller prevents them from doing so. The findings were consistent across all demographic groups in a sampling of 500 females between the ages of 18 to 35, [...]
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=191950 The United States warned Lebanon that it will not tolerate an Iranian foothold on the shores of the Mediterranean, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Easter Affairs Jeffrey Feltman gave the warning to senior Lebanese officials whom he met with two days ago, according to the report. According to [...]
J.Post The Foreign Ministry issued a warning Thursday to Israelis traveling in Ecuador recommending that they remain indoors due to what loyalists of President Rafael Correa are calling an attempted coup There has been no travel warning formally issued, but the ministry advises against it for now, and said that it is continuing to monitor [...]
http://www.politico.com/news/stories How many clicks does it take to soil a candidate’s online reputation? A prominent liberal activist would like to find out. Chris Bowers, campaign director for the Daily Kos, is launching a behind-the-scenes campaign against 98 House Republican candidates that attempts to capitalize on voters’ Google search habits in the hopes of influencing midterm [...]