The Hill: Vice President Joe Biden got visibly upset during late night White House talks on avoiding a government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Friday morning that Biden doesn’t get upset very often, but that he did after hours of negotiations with Republicans at the White House. “Vice President Biden, who [...]
Fox News: WASHINGTON — Everything relating to a budget for the fiscal year is resolved except for “women’s health,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday, arguing that Republicans are holding up a deal that would prevent a federal government shutdown over ideology. Reid, who said negotiators agreed to a final number of $38 billion [...]
Jerusalem Post: Residents in Ashkelon reported Thursday seeing Israel’s new Iron Dome defense system intercept a Grad rocket fired towards the southern city from the Gaza Strip. IDF officials called the interception a “historical moment”, saying it was the first of its kind in the world. Two intercepting missiles were fired at the rocket, but [...]
The Examiner: For many years investigative reporters have suspected that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols did not act alone in perpetrating the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 that killed 168 Americans and injured hundred more. According to newly-released documents, formerly classified, those suspcions were correct. The bombing was the work of Muslim terrorists. In a [...]
Fox News: WASHINGTON — “Riders” — policy decisions that make up part of a budget — are still dividing the two sides but the numbers are closer to gelling in a deal to prevent a looming government shutdown, according to the House No. 2 Democrat. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer told NBC’s “Today” show on [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli aircraft and ground forces struck Gaza on Friday, killing two Hamas gunmen and wounding seven other Palestinians in a surge of fighting sparked by a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli school bus the day before. Israel’s ongoing retaliation for the bus attack has killed five militants, a policeman and a [...]
Washington Post: A Thursday-night meeting between congressional leaders and President Obama failed to resolve an impasse over federal spending that, barring an agreement on Friday, would result in a government shutdown. After the session, which lasted nearly 90 minutes, Obama said in brief remarks to reporters that differences between the two parties remained, adding, “I’m [...]
BRUSSELS (AP) – NATO said Friday its airstrikes had hit rebels using tanks in their fight with the government forces in eastern Libya, but said it would not apologize for the deaths. British Rear Adm. Russell Harding, the deputy commander of the NATO operation, said the military alliance had no previous information the rebels were [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Terror alerts from the government will soon have just two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — and those will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances. Color codes are out; Facebook and Twitter will sometimes be in, according to a Homeland Security draft obtained by The Associated Press. [...]
Potluckbloggers A federal government shut down is all but certain. The new house rules do not allow enough time for the house to vote on a new piece of legislation to fund the government for the balance of the fiscal year and the senate will not vote on the house bill that passed 45 days [...]
