Washington Post: Her Republican colleagues made clear, over and over again, she would not have a seat at the new House majority’s extended leadership table. Rep. Michele Bachmann, they whispered, is too loud, too unruly, too tea party. But as the Minnesota Republican strode out of the Capitol the other day and onto a leaf-strewn [...]
Los Angeles Times: A Barstow police officer is facing hate crime and battery charges for allegedly using racial slurs against a man and assaulting the victim and a woman in Hesperia, San Bernardino County authorities said Friday. Jimmy Alfred Walker, 30, of Victorville was arrested in August by San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies responding to [...]
Washington Times: A leader of President Obama’s bipartisan deficit-reduction commission on Friday predicted that there will be a “bloodbath” on Capitol Hill next year when lawmakers consider increasing the nation’s debt ceiling, which could force both parties to take their recommendations seriously. With the federal debt hovering around $13.7 trillion and the debt limit at [...]
Fox News: Senior Iranian official Mohammad Javad Larijani told the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof Friday that the U.S. hikers being held in a Tehran prison should be released soon. The three University of California, Berkeley graduates were near the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009 when they were detained by Iranian authorities. They were accused [...]
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Politico: MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during his tenure at the network, a violation of parent NBC’s ban on political contributions by employees without specific [...]
Fox News: EXCLUSIVE: A key intelligence report that could aid accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan’s defense is being withheld by the Obama administration, according to a letter obtained by Fox News as part of its ongoing investigation of a radical American cleric. Intelligence officials do not deny that the report contains information about [...]
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