NY Post: CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired Friday by the news network after he went on a tirade during a radio interview calling Jon Stewart a “bigot†and accusing the “elite, Northeast establishment liberals†of labeling him as “second-tier†because of his Cuban-American background, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Rick Sanchez is no longer [...]
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – An El Paso high school dance teacher is accused of recording more than 200 videotapes of himself having sex with as many as 70 children, some of whom were elementary school age. Federal agents testified that they found the videos in the home of 34-year-old Marco Alferez. He was jailed [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) – A Muslim cleric who once used a militia to resist the American invasion positioned himself as a big winner in Iraq’s monthslong political deadlock Friday when his party threw its support behind the beleaguered prime minister. The hard-line Shiite group led by Muqtada al-Sadr called it the start of its ascent to [...]
Los Angeles Times: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes Proposition 19, which would legalize the recreational use of marijuana, but he offered a consolation Thursday by signing a bill that would downgrade possession of an ounce or less from a misdemeanor to an infraction. SB 1449 was written by state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who said [...]
Mediaite: There have certainly been a lot of media match-ups lately, what with Jon Stewart’s ‘rivalry‘ with Glenn Beck, and Bill Maher’s culture clash with Bill O’Reilly. Now The Atlantic’s resident blogger Andrew Sullivan wants a piece of the action. Taking issue with a particular “half-baked piece of nonsense†that the “dishonest†O’Reilly uttered, Sullivan [...]
Fox News: Senior Al Qaeda leaders, including Usama Bin Laden, are believed to be behind efforts to mount a Mumbai-style attack on Westerners in European cities, a senior U.S. intelligence official told Fox News. The news comes on the same day that Bin Laden released an audio recording in which he depicts the Pakistani government [...]
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The Hill: The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee pressured President Obama on Friday to stick to his commitment to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July 2011. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the influential committee, urged Obama to be inflexible on the target date he’d set to begin troop reductions. “The [...]
Jerusalem Post: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday told US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell that the there will be no further peace negotiations with Israel as long as building in settlements continues, Israel Radio reported. Mitchell met with Abbas in Ramallah on Friday after having met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu [...]
SHIKARPUR, Pakistan (AP) – Suspected militants in southern Pakistan set ablaze more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan on Friday, highlighting the vulnerability of the U.S.-led mission a day after Pakistan closed a major border crossing. The Pakistani government shut the Torkham border in the northwest in apparent protest at [...]
