Pat Dollard

Fox News: The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America. The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course [...]

Fox News: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reportedly is hiding in Britain and police know his whereabouts but have refrained from acting on an international arrest warrant on rape allegations because Swedish authorities made a mistake when filling out the paperwork. The 39-year-old Australian computer hacker has been out of public sight since a Nov. 5 [...]

Bloomberg: Republicans will eliminate the House committee created by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to highlight the threat of climate change, Representative James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the panel, said today. In one of her first acts as speaker in 2007, Pelosi, a California Democrat, created the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming [...]

Fox News: A man believed to be connected to the death of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen shot himself to death Wednesday night as police attempted to serve a search warrant at a Los Angeles hotel where he was staying, The Los Angeles Times reported. Police told the newspaper the shooting occurred after 6:00 p.m. local [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – WikiLeaks was on the defensive on several fronts Wednesday, scrambling to remain on the Internet and post more U.S. diplomatic documents while its fugitive founder Julian Assange was targeted by a European arrest warrant on Swedish rape charges. Amazon.com Inc. prevented WikiLeaks from using the U.S. company’s computers to distribute embarrassing State [...]

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) – The Obama administration is encouraged that Iran has agreed to return to Geneva for a new round of international talks on its disputed nuclear program, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday. “We are encouraged that Iran has agreed to meet in Geneva next week,” she told a news [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Baltimore — Soldiers haunted by scenes of war and victims scarred by violence may wish they could wipe the memories from their minds. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say that may someday be possible. A commercial drug remains far off — and its use would be subject to many ethical [...]

Purrol, left, with Sheriff Babeu FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) – An Arizona deputy who came under scrutiny after claiming he was wounded by drug smugglers in the desert has been suspended over comments he made to a Phoenix weekly newspaper. Pinal County spokesman Tim Gaffney says Deputy Louie Puroll is on paid administrative leave pending an [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – It looks and acts like something best left in the hands of Sylvester Stallone’s “Rambo,” but this latest dream weapon is real — and the US Army sees it becoming the Taliban’s worst nightmare. The Pentagon has rolled out prototypes of its first-ever programmable “smart” grenade launcher, a shoulder-fired weapon that uses [...]

Politico: Senate Republicans’ aggressive move to block virtually all business in the chamber has created a fresh round of partisan anger, threatening to derail or delay the rest of the Democratic agenda in an already gridlocked lame-duck session of Congress. A day after both sides signaled a willingness to work together at the White House, [...]

Australian ABC News: Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has hit back at the United States after cables released by WikiLeaks described the US defence secretary as saying that Russian democracy was in retreat. Mr Putin said defence secretary Robert Gates was “deeply misled” and warned US officials not to “interfere” in Russia’s internal politics, according [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama rallied support for a stalled nuclear treaty from former Secretary of State Colin Powell Wednesday, as Republican lawmakers indicated a greater willingness to ratify the agreement with Russia by the end of the year. Both Obama and Powell warned of grave consequences if the Senate fails to ratify the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve revealed details Wednesday of trillions of dollars in emergency aid it provided to U.S. and foreign banks during the financial crisis. New documents show that the most loan and other aid for U.S. institutions over time went to Citigroup ($2.2 trillion), followed by Merrill Lynch ($2.1 trillion), Morgan Stanley [...]

Fox News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has pushed four different versions of the controversial immigration bill known as the DREAM Act without a hearing on any of them, drawing outrage from the top Republican on the committee that would have handled the package. The Nevada senator, who narrowly escaped a defeat in the November [...]

Fox News: Amazon.com has severed ties with controversial website WikiLeaks, the organization that just released a trove of sensitive U.S. State Department documents. Computers run by Amazon’s Elastic Web Compute service in Tulsa, Portland, New York and elsewhere had been hosting the site cablegate.WikiLeaks.org, the Wall Street Journal noted on Tuesday, as well as WikiLeaks.org, [...]

Financial Times: Foreign banks were among the biggest beneficiaries of the $3,300bn in emergency credit provided by the Federal Reserve during the crisis, according to new data on the extraordinary efforts of the US authorities to save the global financial system. The revelation of the scale of overseas lenders’ borrowing underlines the global nature of [...]