Washington Times: U.S. military prosecutors on Wednesday charged one of the most prominent detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a death penalty case that could prove to be a major test of the nation’s revised system of military commissions. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, one of 15 high-value detainees at the U.S. military prison, was charged with [...]
Fierce firefights on the streets of central Misrata have been fought over the past few days, as seen in video which has been exclusively obtained by AP Television. Pictures show rebels manning huge guns and firing on Gadhafi forces. (April 21)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – President Barack Obama told supporters on Thursday he is pressing ahead with his agenda in a difficult political environment in Washington and that “change turned out to be a lot tougher than expected” and he understands their frustration. Obama addressed about 200 people who paid up to $35,800 apiece for the [...]
Huckabee’s response on his website, titled, appropriately, “Response To Glenn Beck”: “This week Glenn Beck has taken to his radio show to attack me as a Progressive, which he has said is the same as a ‘cancer’ and a ‘Nazi.’ What did I do that apparently caused him to link me to a fatal disease [...]
Fox News: President Obama is starting to feel pressure from his own party to tie spending cuts to a vote to raise the debt limit, even as the administration expresses confidence that Congress will ultimately raise the cap. The latest moderate Democrat to draw a line in the sand is Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., who [...]
Washington Times: Impeach Scott Walker? Recall Rick Scott? Although it’s highly unlikely either first-year governor will be booted from office anytime soon, both are among a list of tea party-backed Republican state leaders who are facing significant public backlash after less than four months on the job. Online petitions to impeach the governors or redo [...]
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The Hill: A plurality of Republicans believes that President Obama was not born in the United States, according to a new poll released Thursday. Forty-five percent of registered Republicans think Obama was born outside the U.S., 33 percent believe he was born in the U.S. and 22 percent don’t know, per the results of a [...]
Fox News: The FBI is seeking a “person of interest” in an attempted bombing Wednesday morning at a Colorado mall, Fox 31 reports. The incident came 12 years to the day of the deadly school shooting at Columbine High School, which is located just one mile away from the Southwest Plaza Mall in Littleton, [...]
Wall Street Journal: General Electric Co. reported a 77% increase in first-quarter earnings, lifted by marked improvement at its GE Capital financing arm and gains at most of its industrial units. The company also boosted its quarterly dividend by a penny to 15 cents. The move marks GE’s third dividend increase in the past year, [...]
The Hill: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) ended a visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday by calling on President Obama to better explain how the planned withdrawal of U.S. forces beginning in July won’t undermine the “tenuous” security gains made there. “Any drawdown of U.S. troops must be based on the conditions on the ground, not [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — A Republican invitation for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address Congress next month is highlighting the tensions between President Obama and Mr. Netanyahu and has kicked off a bizarre diplomatic race over who will be the first to lay out a new proposal to reopen the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace [...]
(CNSNews.com) – Federal borrowing is on pace to hit the legal limit on the national debt in less than a week. As set in a law passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama on Feb. 12, 2010, the legal limit on the national debt is $14.2940 trillion. As of the close of business [...]