CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – The mother of four raised a finger, pointing out abandoned and stripped concrete homes and counting how many families have fled the Western Hemisphere’s deadliest city on her street alone. “One, two, three, four, here, and two more back there on the next block,” said Laura Longoria. The 36-year-old ran [...]
The Washington Times: Arizona took a public-relations punch to the gut after passing the nation’s toughest anti-illegal-immigration law earlier this year, but anyone who thinks (or hopes) the state Legislature will lower its profile on the border-security issue in 2011 likely will be disappointed. The state is positioned like never before to expand its efforts [...]
CWA President Penny Nance World Net Daily: Two of the nation’s premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in February because a homosexual activist group, GOProud, has been invited. “We’ve been very involved in CPAC for over a decade and [...]
News On 6: OKLAHOMA CITY — The woman who made national headlines for her near-naked protest at the airport in Oklahoma City is back and once again banned from flying. A YouTube video put Tammy Banovac in the national spotlight. Banovac says she went through security wearing next-to-nothing, to protest new security rules at airports [...]
Washington Post: When Republicans take over the House next week, they will do something that apparently has never been done before in the chamber’s 221-year history: They will read the Constitution aloud. And then they will require that every new bill contain a statement by the lawmaker who wrote it citing the constitutional authority to [...]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Police in Denmark and Sweden said they thwarted a terrorist attack possibly hours before it was to begin Wednesday, arresting five men they say planned to shoot as many people as possible in a Copenhagen building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Four suspects [...]
Airstrikes in the original Battle of Tora Bora, December 12-17, 2001 Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan —Fighting between NATO forces and insurgents has erupted in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora, best known as the rugged labyrinth where Osama bin Laden evaded U.S. capture nine years ago. The Western military and Afghan officials [...]
Out on the field today on a SAFE mission. We are scouting a territory north of the Tohono O’odham Nation reservation which sits west of Nogales. The southern border of the reservation accounts for over a third of the entire Arizona/Mexico border and the entire reservation is the same size as the state of Connecticut, [...]
New York Times: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg accepted responsibility Wednesday for the city’s response to a crippling snowstorm, pledging to have every street plowed by morning and then to figure out why his administration’s cleanup efforts were inadequate. Speaking at a hardware store in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, Mr. Bloomberg said [...]
(CNN) — Detroit, Michigan, computer technician Leon Walker faces a jury trial in February for allegedly hacking into his then-wife’s e-mail account. “She’d asked me to read her e-mails before,” Walker said in an interview this week. “She gave me the password before. She didn’t hide it.” Walker says the e-mails revealed that Clara Walker, [...]
Roll Call: Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an outgoing New Year’s Eve wish, asking House campaign supporters to give money to fight back against “shameful attack ads” that use her to target vulnerable Democrats. In a new fundraising letter for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Californian thanks donors for their “dedication to making change a [...]
MOSCOW (AFP) — The emergence of artificial intelligence is to transform the Internet industry and social networking over the next decade, Russia’s leading web tycoon said in an interview on Tuesday. The low-profile Yury Milner, chairman in the rapidly expanding Mail.ru Internet firm and CEO of DST Global investment company who built minority stakes in [...]
Washington Post: LONDON – Nine men arrested in Britain on terrorism charges last week found inspiration and bomb-making instructions in an English-language Internet magazine published by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, British investigators reportedly said. The revelation, relayed by British newspapers, provided the first purported link between the nine British-based suspects, some of Bangladeshi origin, [...]
Federal officials have begun a criminal investigation of defeated Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (R) regarding her alleged use of campaign funds for personal expenses. The Associated Press cited an unnamed source in reporting Wednesday that FBI agents and federal prosecutors have been assigned to the case, which has not yet been referred to a [...]
Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama enters the new year with a growing number of Americans pessimistic about his policies and a growing number rooting for him to fail, according to a new national poll. But a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday also indicates that while a majority of the public says Republican control [...]
Hawaii’s Democrat Governor Neil Abercrombie: “No, no. It’s not up to the President. It has nothing to do with the President. This has to do with the people of Hawaii who love him. People who loved his mom and dad. This has to do with respect to the office of the president that he’s entitled [...]
