KTV10.com: Information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Cameron County Sheriff’s Deputy Jesus A. Longoria has admitting to attempting to permit a load of semi-automatic firearms to be unlawfully exported from the U.S. into Mexico in exchange for money, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Longoria, 31, of Brownsville, Texas, has [...]
New York Times: BAGHDAD — The protracted political turmoil that saw the resurgence of a fiercely anti-American political bloc here is casting new doubt on establishing any enduring American military role in Iraq after the last of nearly 50,000 troops are scheduled to withdraw in the next 12 months, military and administration officials say. Given [...]
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) – A U.S. governor visiting North Korea has called for it to show maximum restraint to planned South Korean military drills and hopes the U.N. Security Council will deliver the same message in its emergency meeting, his office said. A frequent unofficial envoy to the reclusive country, New Mexico Gov. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – In a historic vote for gay rights, the Senate agreed on Saturday to do away with the military’s 17-year ban on openly gay troops and sent President Barack Obama legislation to overturn the Clinton-era policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Obama was expected to sign the bill into law next week, [...]
The Hill: President Obama invoked Ronald Reagan and other past GOP leaders in a final push Saturday to win Republican votes for the New START nuclear arms treaty. Senate ratification of the treaty would give Obama his second major bipartisan achievement of the lame-duck and allow him to regain footing after the midterm elections that [...]
Washington Times: In a final showdown on immigration legislation, the Senate on Saturday blocked a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children and young adults, likely taking the issue off the table for several years. Known as the DREAM Act, the bill would have immediately legalized many illegal immigrants [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan and Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Insurgents took aim Sunday at the Afghan security forces, ambushing an army bus in the capital, Kabul, and storming an army recruitment center in the north of the country. At least ten Afghan soldiers and police were killed in the two attacks. [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The Iranian government sent squads of riot police to man the major intersections of the capital as sensitive cuts in energy and food subsidies came into effect Sunday. Eye witnesses reported a heavy police presence in the squares and junctions of Tehran such as Enghelab square and Sadeghieh and Valiasr squares [...]
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New York Times: Is President Obama on the verge of one of his most productive months in office? Far from being the legislative wasteland that some had predicted, this year’s congressional lame-duck session has developed into an intense, make-or-break series of cliffhanger events for the president and his soon-to-expire Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. Mr. [...]
Yahoo: For months, critics of Louisiana GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal’s BP-funded $360 million sand berm project have blasted the effort as a tragic misuse of time and resources. They charged that the governor and his lead advisers could have undertaken scores of other projects that would have been far more beneficial to the damaged Gulf [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) —The CIA has pulled its top spy out of Pakistan after threats were made against his life, current and former U.S. officials said, an unusual move for the U.S. and a complication on the front lines of the fight against al-Qaida. The CIA station chief was in transit Thursday after a Pakistani lawsuit [...]
In the first quarter of Thursday night’s game between the Chargers and 49ers, Chargers running back Mike Tolbert lost his helmet and was hit with a crushing block by the 49ers’ Phillip Adams.
Assange is front of his Christmas mansion BBC: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said the United States is conducting an “aggressive” and “illegal” investigation into him and his website. Mr Assange, 39, is free on bail while awaiting extradition proceedings to Sweden over sex allegations. He said: “A lot of face has been lost by [...]
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Transcript: >> good morning to you. this is a major legal victory for you, you have been released on bail but not without restrictions as peter just mentioned. you’ve got a curfew, you have to report to the police on a daily basis, [...]
