Trust.org: Iraq’s powerful anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told the government on Monday it must create 50,000 jobs, give Iraqis a share of the nation’s oil wealth and step up other reforms or face protests. Sadr, whose political movement is a key faction in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s coalition government, said he was giving the [...]
Army Times: MADISON, Wis. — A maintenance supervisor at one of the most pristine veterans cemeteries in the country used the grounds as his private dump, burying everything from cans of paint thinner to television sets, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The cost to clean up the mess is already twice what [...]
USA Today: Five major Republican presidential contenders paraded their conservative credentials Monday at a Tea Party forum in Columbia, S.C., the first of several events this month that signal the slow-to-start GOP contest is moving into a higher gear. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann threw a jab at former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, saying state laws [...]
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Taylor Gingrich, an infantry officer from Cedar Falls, Iowa, draws a smile from a small Afghan boy as Gingrich lets the boy wear his helmet at Quala e’ Najil School in Najil Senior Airman John Fitzgerald, medic attached to Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team, arm wrestles a local Afghan child while after [...]
Their press release can be read HERE Beliefnet: Demonstrators from London’s “Muslims Against Crusades,” whose website shows a graphic of a plane heading towards New York’s World Trade Center, say they “will make as much noise as possible during the planned mark of respect for the dead.” Their disruption at the U.S. Embassy of London’s [...]
Foxnews: Cranking up the anti-Tea Party rhetoric, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called on workers to “take these sons of witches out” as he warmed up a crowd Monday in Detroit ahead of President Obama’s Labor Day speech. The rhetoric coming from speakers at the event was already heated before Hoffa took the stage. Hoffa then [...]
LONDON (Reuters)- European stocks shed 3 percent on Monday and the euro sank against the dollar as markets weighed a risk-heavy outlook for the euro zone, dominated by debt concerns. Worries about public deficits cast fresh doubt on the euro zone’s ability to tackle its debt crisis, extending Friday’s selloff. Wall Street was closed for [...]
Haaretz: Turkey on Monday informed Israel’s top diplomat in Ankara that nearly all senior Israeli embassy personnel must leave the country by Wednesday. Ella Ofek, the deputy to the Israeli ambassador to Turkey and the person currently in charge of the Israeli embassy in Ankara, was summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday. Ofek [...]
Politico: SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s experiment with a first-in-the-nation four-day workweek for state workers is over. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, now a Republican candidate for president, launched the “4/10” workweek – 10 hours a day, Monday-Thursday – for thousands of employees in 2008 to improve efficiency, reduce overhead costs and conserve energy at [...]
Politico: As the GOP presidential field emerges from the traditional Labor Day starting gate, the candidates are confronting a sobering reality: They’re already running out of time. Though there are still months to go before Republicans start casting real primary ballots, party leaders say the dynamics of the race could be locked in place by [...]
Think Progress: Minnesota Protesters Drop Glitter On Anti-Marriage Equality Fair Booth | For unclear reasons, the Minnesota State Fair found last-minute space for a booth for the coalition supporting a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (Minnesota For Marriage), but not for the pro-equality coalition opposing the amendment, Minnesotans United for All Families. To protest the [...]
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Chances are, a lot of you are winding down your holiday weekend and getting ready for a road trip back home. Adam May reports AAA says that drive might be quicker than last year but it will cost you more money. Labor Day weekend is one of the busiest travel times of [...]
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) – The United States is experiencing a surge in the multigenerational households that were once a common feature of American life, and Hispanic and Asian families are driving the trend, according to Census Bureau data. The number of such households, defined as those with three or more generations living under one roof, [...]
