RC-East: PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – When the Khan family arrived at the door of the Task Force Black Lions’ medical clinic, Forward Operating Base Orgun-E, Aug. 24, they expected the day to be one of tragedy. As doctors from the 2nd Forward Surgical Team, from Fort Carson, Colo., operated on a pregnant Afghan woman to [...]
Fox News: Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, a U.S. official tells Fox News. Al-Rahman was a Libyan national who was considered Al Qaeda’s operational leader before rising to the No. 2 spot following Usama bin Laden’s death in May. Al-Rahman’s death is a big blow to the [...]
Could this be linked to the rioters, or perhaps an act of terrorism by the large, radical Muslim population in the country? Telegraph: A Scotland Yard investigation was under way to determine who was behind the plot to put tablets of the prescription medicine Seroquel XL in the packets of the headache pills. Strips of [...]
By Toro520 People appear to be riveted to their televisions as the “looming threat” of Hurricane Irene approaches New York City. Early estimates insisted that it would increase in speed and ferocity, approaching wind speeds upward of 130 miles per hour; claims that entire blocks throughout the boroughs could be flooded out, including the West [...]
Associated Press: MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former President Vicente Fox suggested Friday that Mexican authorities consider calling on drug cartels for a truce and offering them amnesty, speaking out a day after an apparent cartel attack on a casino killed 52 people. Fox, who served from 2000 to 2006, has since advocated legalizing drugs as [...]
Latest Updates: @NCEmergency Perdue: “I want to see the damage with my own eyes,” but must wait until conditions are safe. Urges citizes to exercise caution. #NCIrene Rain falling in southern NJ;’rain is coming in a bit early but this is because Irene has grown in size, not moving faster’- @nynjpaweather Some 47,000 customers without [...]
Daily Mail: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has fled Libya to Zimbabwe on a jet provided by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, it was claimed today, as rebels began the march on his home town. President Mugabe’s political opponents claim their spies saw Gaddafi arrive in the country on a Zimbabwe Air Force jet in the early hours [...]
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People use the beach,late afternoon today, before the arrival of Hurricane Irene in the Rockaways section of the Queens borough of New York City. (AFP) New York – More than 200,000 New Yorkers are under orders to flee a once-in-a-century hurricane, but many in the famed City That Never Sleeps are brushing aside danger — [...]
Bowler-in-Chief ABC News: As a candidate in 2008, President Obama pledged to tear out the White House bowling alley and install a basketball court instead. Just over three years later, the basement bowling alley President Truman installed in 1947 is still there -– and apparently being put to good use. At least 230 visitors to [...]
The Blaze: Affiliates of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation gave more than half a million dollars to Planned Parenthood in 2010, according to federal tax records. The American Life League obtained copies of the financial documents, which totaled donations from 18 Komen affiliates at $569,159. Affiliates in Arizona, California, Colorado, [...]
Washington Examiner: A planned weekend dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall has been postponed until September or October as approaching Hurricane Irene dashed hopes of paying tribute to the late civil rights activist on the 48th anniversary of his “I Have a Dream” speech, organizers said Thursday. Executive architect [...]
News Busters: Bill Keller’s upcoming column for the New York Times’s Sunday magazine, “Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith,” raised familiar liberal paranoia about the conservative religious views of Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry. The official headline for the upcoming print edition: “Not Just Between Them and Their God.” Keller [...]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) – A San Antonio gun shop is suing over a federal requirement that weapons dealers in four border states must report multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles. The new requirement, ordered last month by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, follows a 2009 law enforcement operation in Arizona known [...]
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