Fox News: It’s the kind of political year in which even Rep. Barney Frank is being forced to break a sweat. The Massachusetts Democrat, one of Congress’s most well-known members, usually wins re-election by steamrolling his opponents. This year, he’s campaigning aggressively to beat back Sean Bielat, an upstart Republican challenger who was five years [...]
Washington (AP) – – First lady Michelle Obama is asking Americans to pitch in with cash to help Democrats recreate the get-out-the-vote machine that helped deliver Barack Obama the White House two years ago. In an e-mail sent Monday from the president’s political arm, Mrs. Obama asked for donations as small as $3. She wrote [...]
Jerusalem Post: French authorities arrested twelve men on Tuesday morning on suspicion of involvement with al-Qaida and terror plots, news agencies reported. AFP reported a police source as saying the men were detained in the southern French cities of Marseille and Bordeaux. According to an official, police seized “some weapons, including a Kalashnikov and a [...]
Fox News: Democrats have a mountain to climb in West Virginia. The latest Fox News battleground state surveys of five key states shows Republicans in good position to gain two seats and hold two seats left open by GOP retirements. Democrats, meanwhile, are well-positioned to hold only one. The polls in West Virginia, Connecticut, Nevada, [...]
New York Times: As recently as late December, Monsanto was named “company of the year†by Forbes magazine. Last week, the company earned a different accolade from Jim Cramer, the television stock market commentator. “This may be the worst stock of 2010,†he proclaimed. Monsanto, the giant of agricultural biotechnology, has been buffeted by setbacks [...]
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Fox News: Elections are rife with possible “game changer” scenarios. They’re blockbuster events that could fundamentally alter the political tectonics in ways no one anticipated. A precipitous Wall Street slide. An political assassination. A major terrorist hit. Terrorists? You don’t say? So how is it that the U.S. issues a cryptic terrorism alert about travel [...]
NEW YORK – The man who plotted to kill Americans by driving a homemade car bomb into Times Square and leaving it to explode has been sentenced to life in prison. A judge gave Faisal Shahzad (FY’-sul shah-ZAHD’) a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. The bomb he had [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI and Homeland Security Department say they have no indication that terrorists are targeting the U.S. or its citizens as part of a new threat against Europe. According to an intelligence bulletin obtained Monday by The Associated Press, the FBI and Homeland Security say they do believe that the al-Qaida terrorist [...]
Washington Post: Less than a month before the midterm elections, the political landscape remains strongly tilted toward Republicans, although Democrats have made modest improvements with voters since their late-summer low point, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Democrats have cut in half the GOP’s early-September advantage on the question of which party’s candidates [...]
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Sports Grid: When a young woman documented her hookups with a series of baseball and lacrosse players from Duke University, she thought only her close friends would see it. But the list, which includes names, pictures, and extremely detailed ratings of the men she had sex with, was apparently emailed to someone outside of that [...]
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