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Yahoo News: Top lawmakers rolled out dueling debt plans on Monday that offered little prospect for compromise, increasing the threat of a ratings downgrade and national default, as President Barack Obama prepared to address Americans on the impasse. Little more than a week before the August 2 deadline to raise the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt [...]

BBC: A man who confessed to shooting two soldiers outside a military recruiting facility in Arkansas has pleaded guilty and received a life sentence. Abdulhakim Muhammad pleaded guilty to capital murder and attempted capital murder charges in the 2009 shooting. He struck a plea deal with prosecutors on Monday to avoid the death penalty. The [...]

AJC.com: President Barack Obama is hailing the World Series champion San Francisco Giants as baseball’s “characters with character.” He welcomed the team to the White House on Monday to celebrate the Giants’ 4-games-to-1 triumph over the Texas Rangers in last year’s fall classic. Obama was joined by California lawmakers ,including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, [...]

Reuters: Cash from part of a $2.16 billion U.S. transportation contract in Afghanistan has ended up in the hands of Taliban insurgents, the Pentagon said on Monday. The disclosure is another example of the persistent difficulty the U.S. military has in keeping its massive war funding from reaching the insurgents it is fighting in the [...]

Telegraph: The estranged father of Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik has disowned his son, saying that he should have taken his own life instead of those of the 76 people he killed. In an interview at his home in southern France, Mr Breivik, 76, said: “I don’t feel like his father. How could he just [...]

Washington Post: From a source familiar with the call, this is what House Speaker John Boehner told House Republicans on Sunday: I went on “Fox News Sunday” this morning because it was the most effective way to tell everyone where things stand. It boils down to this: The president wants his $2.4 trillion debt limit [...]

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BBC: Norwegian police are investigating claims by Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted carrying out Friday’s twin attacks in Norway, that he has “two more cells” working with him. Mr Breivik made the claim as he attended his first court hearing following the bombing in Oslo and a massacre on an island youth camp that [...]

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Telegraph: The man who bombed Norway’s capital and gunned down Labour Party youths on an island, killing at least 93, told police he intended to target former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, Oslo newspaper Aftenposten said. Brundtland, who led three Labour Party governments in the 1980s and 1990s and is often called “mother of the [...]

Daily Caller: Staffers at Americans for Tax Reform, the ‘anti-tax’ group run by conservative activist Grover Norquist, evacuated their building Monday morning after a bomb threat was called in, according to authorities. A spokesman for the Washington D.C. police department, Anthony Clay, told The Daily Caller that officers from the explosive ordinance division were called [...]

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Telegraph: A hunt for possible British accomplices of the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is under way after it emerged that he began his deadly “crusade” after meeting other Right-wing extremists in London. Before he carried out Norway’s worst terrorist atrocity, Breivik typed out a chilling 1,500-page description of his plans, written entirely in English [...]