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Politico: President Barack Obama told congressional leaders there are no plans to use the U.S. military to assassinate Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi — despite the administration’s policy of seeking regime change in the North African country — according to sources familiar with a Friday White House Situation Room briefing. “There was a discussion of how [...]

The Hill: President Obama said Saturday that U.S. and international forces are succeeding in their mission. In his weekly address, Obama defended his decision to intervene in Libya and emphasized that, with the support of the international community, the U.S. will play a limited role in the military action. The president’s taped message likely offered [...]

Damascus (AP) – Syrian activists say security troops have stormed a protest sit-in near the capital Damascus, arresting about 200 people in the midnight raid after violence erupted in the country the day prior. The activists say up to 4,000 people were demonstrating in the town of Douma near Damascus when, around midnight Friday, electricity [...]

BOSTON (AP) – Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, only to lose in a landslide, died Saturday. She was 75. Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda [...]

New York Times: WASHINGTON — With time running short and budget negotiations this week having reached an angry impasse, Congressional leaders are growing increasingly pessimistic about reaching a bipartisan deal that would avert a government shutdown in early April. Senior Democratic officials involved in high-level efforts to bring House Republicans, Senate Democrats and the White [...]

San Francisco Gate: Ready or not, swimsuit season is here, and clothing stores across America are filling their racks with stringy bikinis, feeding women’s insecurities and reminding us all that we should go to the gym before summer hits. This year’s crop of swimsuits includes an interesting offering for young girls: padded bikini tops. Yes, [...]

First Coast News: If given the choice between eating a hot dog or enjoying some rotisserie chicken, you may want to consider the hot dog. That’s because hot dogs, as well as pepperoni and deli meats, are relatively free of carcinogenic compounds, according to Kansas State University research. J. Scott Smith, professor of food chemistry, [...]

Fox News: President Obama will address the nation Monday night on the crisis in Libya in an effort to clear up questions regarding the U.S.’s handling of the crisis. Lawmakers have criticized the president for not consulting with them sufficiently before launching military attacks against Qaddafi’s forces and several of them have raised concerns over [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – An argument between two armed neighbors over a dog and its feces escalated to a shootout in rural Mississippi, sending one neighbor to the hospital with injuries from shotgun pellets and the other neighbor to jail. Terry Tenhet, 52, told The Associated Press he was struck Wednesday in both hands, the [...]

AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) – Libyan rebels regained control of the eastern gateway city of Ajdabiya on Saturday after international airstrikes on Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, in the first major turnaround for an uprising that once appeared on the verge of defeat. In a western city the opposition lost to Gadhafi, a resident said security agents had [...]

The Lookout: You may have heard the story about the man living in a 14×60 trailer who got a $12,864 electric bill, or the Corpus Christie man who was billed $7.7 million by his water company, or the Canadian whose cell phone provider hit him up for $85,000–the list truly goes on and on and [...]

SENDAI, Japan (AP) – U.S. naval barges loaded with freshwater sped toward Japan’s overheated nuclear plant on Saturday to help workers struggling to stem a worrying rise in radioactivity and remove dangerously contaminated water from the facility. Workers at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi plant have been using seawater in a frantic bid to stabilize reactors [...]

CAESAREA, Israel — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Defence Secretary Robert Gates Friday that Israel is ready to act with “great force” in response to a spate of rocket fire by Gaza militants and a deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem. Israel had been “subjected to bouts of terror and rocket attacks,” Netanyahu told reporters [...]

On the afternoon of Friday, March 11th, Hideaki Akaiwa was at his job, dully trudging out the final bitter minutes of his work week in his office just outside the port city of Ishinomaki in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture. What this guy’s day job actually is, I honestly have no idea, but based on the extremely [...]

In a new development in the continuing scandal at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives–a division of the Department of Justice–CBS News is reporting today that Barack Obama is denying all knowledge of the illegal scheme but that an ATF whistleblower insists that someone in the highest levels of the Administration not only [...]

Deep divisions between allied forces currently bombing Libya worsened today as the German military announced it was pulling forces out of NATO over continued disagreement on who will lead the campaign. A German military spokesman said it was recalling two frigates and AWACS surveillance plane crews from the Mediterranean, after fears they would be drawn [...]

A former official of one of the country’s most-powerful unions, SEIU, has a secret plan to “destabilize” the country. The plan is designed to destroy JP Morgan, nuke the stock market, and weaken Wall Street’s grip on power, thus creating the conditions necessary for a redistribution of wealth and a change in government. The former [...]

Britain, France and the United States have agreed that Nato will take over the military command of the no-fly zone over Libya in a move which represents a setback for Nicolas Sarkozy, who had hoped to diminish the role of the alliance. Barack Obama agreed in separate phone calls with Sarkozy and David Cameron that [...]