All of yesterday’s gains were wiped out, and then some…the Fed’s interest rate announcement hasn’t done anything to quell fears, to help. (Reuters) – Fear returned to Wall Street on Wednesday, sending the S&P 500 to another 4 percent decline, triggered by worries that Europe’s debt crisis could engulf French banks and spill onto the [...]
(Reuters) – Economic fears are weighing heavily on Americans, with a large majority saying the United States is on the wrong track and nearly half believing the worst is yet to come, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said Wednesday. The poll reflected growing anxiety about the U.S. economy and frustration with Washington after a narrowly averted government [...]
KTAR: PHOENIX – Three African refugees were arrested after what police described as a fake bomb was found in one of their carry-on bags during security screening at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, police said Tuesday. Phoenix police didn’t yet know what the motive was behind the Friday incident and weren’t ruling out the possibility [...]
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New York Post: WALSENBURG, Colo. — Three siblings on the run since their alleged crime spree in Florida and Georgia last week were arrested Wednesday after a car crash in southern Colorado. Following a “short pursuit” that ended in an accident, Lee Grace Dougherty, 29, Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26, and Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21, were [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin Democratic Party is standing by its plan to force a recall election against Republican Gov. Scott Walker despite losing four of six recalls targeting GOP state senators. Party Chairman Mike Tate issued a statement Wednesday saying the Democrats’ winning of two Senate recall elections shows how vulnerable Walker is [...]
NPR: The Taliban attack that claimed the lives of nearly two dozen members of the elite and secretive unit called SEAL Team 6 places a huge burden on the Special Forces community. Officials say with a roughly 10 percent loss, they may have to rotate SEALs in before their downtime is complete, or pull SEALs [...]
New York Post: President Obama claims to see the need to create jobs at this time of endless 9-plus percent unemployment — yet his administration continues to relentlessly destroy jobs for ideological reasons. The best example may be the Obama Environmental Protection Agency’s “war on coal.” The EPA’s regulatory crusade directly threatens hundreds of thousands [...]
Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner has named GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas to co-chair a powerful new committee that will try to come up with a bipartisan plan this fall to reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $1 trillion. Boehner also named Reps. Dave Camp and Fred Upton, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Military investigators are trying to determine what went wrong in the downing of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan last week that killed 30 American troops and eight Afghans. Questions remain about why the troops were called in to aid other U.S. combatants engaged in a firefight, what they knew about the situation [...]
(Reuters) – Late last Friday night, special forces troops from the NATO-led coalition launched an operation to capture a Taliban leader in an inaccessible valley southwest of Kabul. A few hours later 38 troops — 30 of them Americans — lay dead in a transport helicopter destroyed in the worst single incident suffered by foreign [...]
CNBC: London is reeling from three nights of rioting that’s poured hundreds of people into the streets, leaving several local neighborhoods in shambles. One man is dead, dozens injured and arrested. The protests have now spread to other cities, with violence reported in parts of Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol. Great Britain and other parts of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — International forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. and Afghan forces over the weekend, but they are still seeking the top insurgent leader they were going after in Saturday’s mission, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday. Marine Corps Gen. John Allen [...]
Time: Wisconsin Democrats knocked off two GOP state senators on Tuesday night, exacting a hard-fought political price on Republican lawmakers for restricting collective bargaining rights of state and local employees. National advocacy groups funneled tens of millions of dollars into nine races, seven of which have now been decided, turning a parochial skirmish into an [...]
