WASHINGTON (AP) – The Food and Drug Administration is expected to find that caffeine is an unsafe food additive to alcoholic drinks, essentially banning them, and manufacturers will then be warned that marketing caffeinated alcoholic beverages could be illegal. The FDA ruling, which could come as soon as this week, “should be the nail in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – In a blow to President Barack Obama, chances faded Tuesday for Senate approval of a major nuclear arms treaty with Russia this year, tripping up one of the administration’s top foreign policy goals. Obama has been pushing to get enough Republican support for a vote before the Democratic majority shrinks by six [...]
DETROIT (AP) – Howell High School economics teacher Jay McDowell says he didn’t like where the discussion was going after a student told his classmates he didn’t “accept gays,” so McDowell kicked the boy out of class for a day. In return, the teacher was kicked out of his Michigan school for a day—suspended without [...]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – Well-known Hollywood publicist Ronni Sue Chasen was shot to death Tuesday in her Mercedes-Benz near Sunset Boulevard, authorities said. Chasen, 64, of Los Angeles was the publicist for movies such as “Driving Miss Daisy” and “On Golden Pond.” She was shot several times in the chest shortly before 12:30 a.m., [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House ethics panel has found Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York guilty on 11 counts of breaking House rules. The full ethics committee will next conduct a hearing on the appropriate punishment for the former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The committee will then make a recommendation to [...]
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The Hill: Lawmakers are expected to grill the head of TSA on Tuesday over increased security measures at U.S. airports that have sparked public fury. John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, is expected to be hit with questions about new pat-down techniques that air passengers have complained are invasive. He is scheduled [...]
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Newsweek: What does Viktor Bout know that the Kremlin doesn’t want the U.S. to find out?
Politico: Two Democratic consultants are accusing Arianna Huffington and her business partner of stealing their idea for the powerhouse liberal website Huffington Post. Peter Daou and James Boyce charge that Huffington and partner Ken Lerer designed the website from a plan they had presented them, and in doing so, violated a handshake agreement to work [...]
(Reuters) – If President Barack Obama is not yet convinced that his international star power has faded, his next round of transatlantic summitry should clear up any lingering doubts. Coming off a marathon Asia trip where Obama often found himself rebuffed by fellow world leaders, he will head to Europe this week where the agenda [...]
The Hill: Liberals furious with a White House they view as constantly telegraphing compromise with Republicans are pressuring President Obama to get tougher, arguing that is the only way he will win both progressives and independents in 2012. Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and an outspoken critic of the White [...]
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