The Hill: The likelihood of a government shutdown appeared to increase Tuesday after Speaker John Boehner’s office said a meeting between congressional leaders at the White House did not resolve the standoff over funding the government for the rest of the year. A few hours later, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) also cast doubt on [...]
MSNBC: A mixed martial arts fighter was one of two Americans gunned down in an execution-style killing near the San Ysidro border crossing Monday morning. Mexican authorities say Sergio Salcido Luna and Kevin Joel Romero were waiting in their company truck while waiting to cross into the U.S. before dawn. A gunman walked up to [...]
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Th Dems want to use a government shutdown to destroy the Tea Party. A dubious plan, indeed. Either Boehner or Obama will choke, and their troops will follow, case closed. The Dems also will win if the GOP blinks, as far as the Tea Party goes, because then they will be able to say that [...]
Police in Lexington, South Carolina say theives stole a forklift from a nearby construction site and used it to steal an ATM from outside a bank, loading it into a pickup truck that was stolen from a nearby apartment. (April 5)
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The Hill: In a category more worthy of shame than admiration, the award for the biggest government bailout goes not to AIG, General Motors or Bank of America, but to the financial behemoths known as Fannie and Freddie. To date, these loss-making government-sponsored enterprises have cost the American people more than $150 billion, with potentially [...]
BREGA, Libya (AP) – Libyan government forces on Tuesday unleashed a withering bombardment of the rebels outside a key oil town, pushing them back despite NATO reports that nearly a third of Moammar Gadhafi’s heavy weapons have been destroyed. The rebels managed to take part of the oil town of Brega the day before, aided [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington — House Republicans will propose $6.2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade Tuesday as part of their ambitious 2012 budget blueprint that will include vast changes to the size and scope of the federal government, amplifying the fiscal battle with the White House. Such a spending reduction [...]
Fox News: The United Nations mission chief in the Ivory Coast says the “war is over,” and that all generals formerly loyal to strongman Laurent Gbagbo have defected, Choi Young-Jin told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. “The war is over,” the South Korean told Al Jazeera. “Gbagbo’s army has simply disappeared.” “All the generals fighting for [...]
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Jerusalem Post: Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egypt, said Monday that “if Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime.” In an interview with the Al-Watan newspaper he said: “In case of any future Israeli attack on [...]
CBSnews General David Petraeus has led the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, emerging from both as a military commander favored by politicians and the public alike. The four-star Army general is expected to leave his post soon as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and NPR reports he may take on a wholly different [...]
