CAIRO (AP) – The ideology that reigns in Saudi Arabia comes into plain view on the website of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars, where boys and girls sharing a swimming pool causes “mischief and evil” and bringing flowers to a hospital patient is to be discouraged because it’s a foreign custom that “imitates Allah’s [...]
Boston.com: As a Muslim and a high school senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 17-year-old Dunia Kassay faces a tough choice every year on Islamic holy days: go to school or stay home to be with family and friends. If she stays home, Kassay says, she will be forced to play catch-up and make [...]
Wall Street Journal: Republican challengers are suddenly threatening once-safe Democrats in New England and the Northwest,
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) – The mayor-elect of a small town near Oaxaca state’s Pacific coast has been shot to death, the latest in a string of political figures who have been slain in Mexico this year. Antonio Jimenez Banos, 47, who would have taken office in January in Martires de Tacubaya, was killed Friday afternoon [...]
New York Times: In two campaign stops Thursday, Mr. Obama invoked what he portrayed as a specific new example, citing a blog posting from a liberal advocacy group as he teed off on a longtime adversary, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, over its political spending. “Just this week, we learned that one of the largest [...]
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Space.com: A private suborbital spaceship flew its first solo test flight today (Oct. 10) from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
The Hill: As the debate over how to prosecute suspected terrorists re-erupted last week, the top ranking House Republican on the Homeland Security committee says a federal judge’s ruling supports the GOP mantra that the White House was wrong to use civilian courts. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) told The Hill that the recent judicial decision [...]
Politico: Karl Rove charged Sunday that President Barack Obama has an “enemies list,” after the White House escalated its argument that Rove and others are orchestrating a flood of midterm-election ads paid for by unknown donors. The Democratic National Committee is attacking Rove and another top GOP strategist, Ed Gillespie, in an ad that is [...]
Fox News: More than one week after its extended deadline, New York still hasn’t mailed out absentee ballots to all its 320,000 military servicemen and women and overseas voters, in clear violation of the MOVE Act, FoxNews.com has learned. According to the 2009 MOVE Act, a state must send out its military and overseas ballots [...]
The Hill: White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has the burden of proving false the charge by Democrats that the business group is funneling foreign money to Republican campaigns. Axelrod was pressed by CBS’ Bob Schieffer on Sunday for evidence that the foreign campaign contributions benefiting the GOP is [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Global finance leaders failed Saturday to resolve deep differences that signal the start of a full-blown currency war.
