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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama exacted his revenge Saturday after weeks of attacks from his would-be Republican challenger Donald Trump, joking that the billionaire businessman could bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden. With Trump in attendance, Obama used [...]

Daily Mail: Prince Harry paid a moving tribute to his brother, bestowing him with the new title ‘The Dude’ and his new sister-in-law ‘The Duchess’ during a heartfelt speech at their evening wedding reception on Friday. Harry also told the couple’s friends and family that he loved Kate ‘like a sister’ and how the story [...]

San Francisco Gate: Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area. Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib: Sadly, we expected the [...]

UPDATE: TRIPOLI, Libya – Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi survived a NATO missile strike Saturday that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren and wounded friends and relatives, Libya’s spokesman said. Gadhafi and his wife were in the Tripoli house of his 29-year-old son, Saif al-Arab Gadhafi, when it was hit by at least one missile [...]

Marine Corps Times KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban on Saturday announced the beginning of their spring military offensive against the U.S.-led coalition, a day after a new Pentagon report claimed that the militants’ fighting spirit was low after sustaining heavy losses on the battlefield. In a two-page statement, the Taliban said that beginning Sunday they [...]

WOAI: As dry conditions and gusty winds whip up new wildfires in parched Texas, Gov. Rick Perry Thursday blasted the Obama Administration for failing to issue a disaster declaration for the state, widening the growing rift between the White House and the states rights advocate governor, 1200 WOAI news reports. “You see hundreds of thousands [...]

The Hill: The Pentagon on Friday issued a mostly upbeat assessment of the Afghanistan conflict, saying U.S. and NATO forces have made “tangible progress” and “halted” Taliban momentum. In its latest six-month operational assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, the Pentagon acknowledges some challenges remain, but it emphasizes “notable gains” and “notable achievements” and “great [...]

An Amish farm in Pennsylvania has been stopped from selling contraband milk after a year-long federal government sting operation. The Rainbow Acres Farm was found to have been smuggling banned unpasteurised milk to customers in Maryland. Raw milk drinkers claim that pasteurisation eliminates good bacteria and changes the taste. But the Food and Drug Administration [...]

Teheran (AP) – Deep rifts among Iran’s ruling elite have reached an all-time high in recent weeks, according to sources, who say things have gotten so bad that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have stopped showing up for work. Iran’s complex power structure has for years been compared to a multi-headed hydra, with multiple points of [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Benghazi, Libya— Fighting in western Libya has spread across the border into Tunisia, where tensions were high Friday after the Foreign Ministry condemned the shelling of its territory and demanded that the Libyan government “take immediate steps to put an end to these violations.” The incursion raised the specter of [...]

LONDON (AP) – With a smile that lit up TV screens around the world, Kate Middleton married Prince William in a union that promised to revitalize the British monarchy. A million people roared their approval as the royal couple then paraded through London in an open carriage. Even knowing that an immense television audience was [...]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)– The historic next-to-last space shuttle launch was scratched Friday because of mechanical problems, spoiling a visit from the president and dashing the hopes of the biggest crowd of spectators in years, including the mission commander’s wounded wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. NASA hopes to try again Monday to launch space shuttle Endeavour [...]