Washington Post: Gen. David H. Petraeus has served as commander in two wars launched by the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. If confirmed as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Petraeus would effectively take command of a third — in Pakistan. Petraeus’s nomination comes at a time when the CIA [...]
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Fierce storms obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, wiping out homes and businesses, causing a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even forcing the evacuation of a National Weather Service office. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The death toll was staggering — 83 people killed [...]
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Politico: PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Donald Trump began his trip to New Hampshire Wednesday with a victory lap over the release of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, gleefully taking credit for pressuring the White House to disclose a document that Trump had said doesn’t exist. “I’ve accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish,” [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington— President Obama told Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday that he was driven to release his long-form birth certificate so that the nation could move on and focus on a “serious conversation” about solving its problems. Obama, joined by his wife, discussed the issue at Winfrey’s Chicago studios hours after he [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan air force pilot opened fire on U.S. trainers at Kabul’s international airport Wednesday, killing nine in the deadliest attack on Americans in Afghanistan in nearly six years. Details of what took place at North Kabul International Airport at about 11 a.m. were sparse. The International Security Assistance Force, as the [...]
If Thad McCotter runs I will actually be voting FOR someone not against the other candidate! ~ Angelia The sign outside the ballroom was matter-of-fact: “Unsigned $20. Signed $15. No Haggling.” That matter-of-fact sign was next to a matter-of-fact pile of books, which sat on a matter-of-fact folding table. And sitting behind it was a [...]
Fox News: More than a month before Donald Trump began his media blitzkrieg over the issue of President Obama’s birth certificate, the document was quietly moved to a more secure location within a dual combination-key lock safe inside the state’s health department vault. The certificate was moved there by Alvin Onaka, Hawaii’s State Registrar, in [...]
Politico: In an extraordinary move, President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to put an end to questions about his citizenship, releasing a longer version of his birth certificate and calling on the media and conspiracy theorists to move on. “We do not have time for this kind of silliness,” Obama told reporters in the White [...]
