ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)- Alaska’s bitterly contested Senate election went to state court Monday when Republican Joe Miller sued the state over the way write-in ballots for his GOP rival have been counted. Miller is trying to stop the state from using discretion in determining voter intent on write-in ballots cast for Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The [...]
Fox News: Negotiating with the Taliban is controversial enough, but there’s a new black eye for the U.S.-backed efforts in Afghanistan to broker an end to the violence. A leading Taliban negotiator was actually an imposter, the New York Times reports, citing U.S. and Afghan officials. The secret war talks between Afghan leaders and the [...]
MSNBC: Airline passengers aren’t the only ones complaining about the Transportation Security Administration’s new enhanced security procedures. Many TSA employees aren’t too happy, either. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union that represents TSA workers, is urging the TSA to do more to protect its employees from abuse from airline passengers angry over [...]
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MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico’s government is telling migrants driving home for the holidays from the United States that they should form convoys for their own safety while traveling through Mexico, and an official said Monday that police will accompany convoys on the most dangerous stretches of highway. A seemingly intractable wave of drug cartel [...]
Washington Post: Prosecutors overcame a lack of any scientific evidence to secure a conviction Monday of illegal immigrant Ingmar Guandique in the killing of former federal intern Chandra Levy. Guandique, 29, will be sentenced in February on two counts of first-degree felony murder, one related to her kidnapping and one related to attempted robbery. He [...]
Fox News: An application to secure funding from federal 9/11 aid to build a controversial Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero is drawing fire from critics who decry the move as insensitive. “In November 2010, Park51 submitted several grant requests to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, a New York state agency. The agency was [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI reports that the number of hate crime incidents and victims — including businesses and other institutions as well as individuals — went down in 2009 compared to the previous year. The bureau says that out of some 4,000 victims of racial bias, seven in 10 were victims because of prejudice [...]
Washington Post: A cheap and simple fix in the computer software of new airport scanners could silence the uproar from travelers who object to the so-called virtual strip search, according to a scientist who helped develop the program at one of the federal government’s most prestigious institutes. The researcher, associated with the Lawrence Livermore National [...]
Politico: JERUSALEM — Vowing to change a region that has resisted the best efforts of presidents and prime ministers past, Barack Obama dove head first into the Middle East peace process on his second day in office. He was supposed to be different. His personal identity, his momentum, his charisma and his promise of a [...]
