As the White House and Congressional Republicans duel this week over their respective budget proposals, the conversation in the capital is all about the size and role of the federal government. Basically, President Obama would cut some and spend a lot; Republicans would cut a lot and spend much less. There is another way to [...]
WASHINTON – A senate hearing Wednesday revealed that top US intelligence agencies are largely ignorant about the current situation in Egypt and unfamiliar with the agenda of the country’s radical Islamists. “It’s hard to at this point to point to a specific agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood as a group,” National Intelligence Director James Clapper [...]
“It’s one thing to look a gift horse in the mouth. It’s quite another thing to slaughter a gift horse and send its disemboweled corpse back to Washington.” That’s how Time magazine senior correspondent Michael Grunwald characterized Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott’s decision to spurn a federal Department of Transportation high-speed rail grant for the [...]
MANAMA, Bahrain – The swelling protests against Bahrain’s rulers gained momentum Wednesday with huge crowds calling for a sweeping political overhaul and the kingdom’s stunned leaders appearing to shift tactics after attempts to crush the uprising stoked rage on the streets and sharp criticism from Western allies. The widening challenges to the Arab world’s political [...]
Countrywide’s VIP program is the first subpoena target for House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), said a committee aide. The “Friends of Angelo” program, named for former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, has been under committee investigation since 2008 for allegedly granting generous mortgage deals to influential government officials, lawmakers and employees [...]
President Obama has come a long way from the heady campaign days of 2008, when he promised to televise negotiations over his health care reform live on C-SPAN. Now, the White House is conceding that parts of the accelerating debate with Congress over the future of programs such as Medicaid and Social Security should probably [...]
The Israel Navy was tracking two Iranian warships as they were set to make a rare crossing of the Suez Canal late Wednesday night. The vessels were to cross into the Mediterranean Sea on their way to Syria. Defense officials said Israel would monitor them, although their presence in the sea would not change anything [...]
The mayors of three Arizona border towns have asked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu to tone down comments about border security issues. In a letter dated Feb. 9, the mayors of Nogales, Douglas and San Luis urged Babeu to stop “cultivating a culture of fear and to start being accurate about border security.” “While your [...]
Washington Post: CAIRO – Egypt geared up Tuesday for a breakneck rush to democracy as its military rulers vowed to hand authority to an elected civilian government in six months and ordered legal experts to draft a revised constitution in 10 days. The announcements are the latest signal that Egypt’s generals are serious in their [...]
New York Times: BUTNER, N.C. — Bernard L. Madoff said he never thought the collapse of his Ponzi scheme would cause the sort of destruction that has befallen his family. In his first interview for publication since his arrest in December 2008, Mr. Madoff — looking noticeably thinner and rumpled in khaki prison garb — [...]
Lara Logan of CBS News, pictured in Cairo’s Tahrir Square shortly before she was attacked CBS: On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were [...]
MANAMA (Reuters) – Thousands of Shi’ite demonstrators, inspired by popular revolts that toppled rulers in Tunisia and Egypt, poured into Bahrain’s capital on Wednesday to mourn for a second protestor killed in clashes this week. Several hundred gathered at a funeral procession for a man shot dead when police and mourners clashed at an earlier [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — Three illegal immigrants arrested near the scene of a shootout that left a Border Patrol agent dead have been cleared by federal authorities of involvement in the shooting. Robbie Sherwood, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona, said two of the immigrants pleaded guilty to an immigration violation Tuesday and the [...]
CAIRO (AP) – The long banned Muslim Brotherhood said Tuesday it will form a political party once democracy is established in Egypt but promised not to field a candidate for president, trying to allay fears at home and abroad that it seeks power. Still, the fundamentalist movement is poised to be a significant player in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – On a collision course over spending, House Republicans advanced a sweeping, $61 billion package of budget reductions on Tuesday despite a veto threat and a warning from President Barack Obama against cuts “that could endanger the recovery.” Congressional Democrats said the Republican cuts would reduce U.S. employment rather than add to it [...]
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