The Hill: President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Friday appeared at their first joint campaign rally this year on behalf Delaware nominee Chris Coons (D), lauding him and one another after two years in office. The president and vice president presented a unified front for the audience in Biden’s hometown of Wilmington and [...]
Fox News: The president of the National Organization for Women may have said it’s wrong for anyone to call a woman a “whore,” but the head of the California NOW affiliate says Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is one. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com California NOW President Parry Bellasalma told the TPM blog on [...]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – A plea deal that would reportedly keep a Guantanamo prisoner in custody for eight more years isn’t sitting well with a key witness against him: a former Army sergeant who was partially blinded and lost a friend in the firefight that led to the alleged al-Qaida militant’s capture. Layne [...]
The Hill: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) could have the power to decide who controls the Senate after the midterm elections. Polling suggests Republicans could pick up as many as nine seats this fall, making a 50-50 split between the two parties a distinct possibility. A nine-seat gain for the GOP would give Democrats the slimmest [...]
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) – A $4 rubber bracelet meant to raise breast cancer awareness has done that and more: Students nationwide are wearing the “I (heart) boobies” wristbands, and running afoul of school administrators. Schools from California to Florida have banned the bracelets because they believe the “boobies” language is inappropriate. The bracelets are marketed [...]
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) – A soldier who recorded the terror of last year’s deadly shooting rampage in Fort Hood using his cell phone was ordered by an officer to delete both videos, a military court heard Friday. Under cross examination, Pfc. Lance Aviles told an Article 32 hearing that his noncommissioned officer ordered him [...]
Washington Post: Partisan tensions are running high, but one top Bush adviser is being welcomed at the White House on Friday: Condoleezza Rice. Rice, the former secretary of state and George W. Bush’s first national security adviser, is scheduled to hold a private meeting with Obama at 3:45 p.m. A White House spokesman, Tommy Vietor, [...]
PARIS, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Striking French oil refinery workers shut down a fuel pipeline supplying Paris and its airports on Friday and airport workers grounded some flights as protests mounted to derail an unpopular pension reform. France’s airport operator played down worries of fuel shortages, but strikes at all of France’s 12 refineries and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve is prepared to take further steps to rejuvenate the economy by buying Treasury bonds but is wrestling with how big the program should be, Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday. Bernanke also indicated that Fed policymakers are trying to craft a plan to lift inflation from super-low levels. He made [...]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia agreed on Friday to build Venezuela’s first nuclear power station after talks between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Hugo Chavez in the Kremlin. Russian nuclear agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro signed a deal on “the construction and use of an atomic power station on the territory of [...]
Fox News: Senior U.S. officials are concerned over recent intelligence indicating that the Pakistani Taliban, which orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing, may have successfully placed another operative inside the United States to launch a second attack, sources tell Fox News. Authorities, however, know very little about the potential operative or any possible plot. “[We] [...]
Washington Times: With less than three weeks before Election Day, the “tea party” remains the key unknown for both parties, with Democrats saying the movement will cost the GOP seats and Republicans saying it’s part of an anti-establishment sentiment that will power them to majorities in one or both chambers of Congress. Democratic National Committee [...]
