CAIRO (AP) – Al Qaeda’s new leader called on his followers to continue to fight the United States despite the killing of Usama bin Laden, calling America a “criminal country” that has corrupted the world. In a video posted on militant websites Sunday, Ayman al-Zawahri also said the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have provided [...]
World Net Daily: A lawsuit seeking in excess of $50 million has been prepared against MSNBC and its talk-show entertainer Rachel Maddow over statements she made about a Minnesota-based ministry. Word of the development comes in an announcement from the YouCanRunButYouCannotHideInternational ministry run by former rock artist Bradlee Dean. The attorney handling the case is [...]
Mercury News President Barack Obama will visit Facebook this month in an online town hall event with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the first live appearance on Facebook by a sitting president. Facebook and the White House jointly announced Tuesday that Obama will visit the Palo Alto headquarters of the social network on April 20. Obama will [...]
New York Times: Jay Carney, the spokesman for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., will replace Robert Gibbs as the White House press secretary, two senior White House officials said Thursday afternoon. Mr. Carney, a former reporter for Time magazine and chief of its Washington bureau, will become the new, public face of the West [...]
Politico: The election of Barack Obama, America’s first black president, was supposed to be a sign of our national maturity, a chance to transform the charged, stilted “national conversation†about race into a smarter and more authentic dialogue, led by a president who was also one of the nation’s subtlest thinkers and writers on the [...]
The Guardian: The new coalition government regards the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie plane bombing as a “mistake”, Britain’s ambassador to the US has said. Sir Nigel Sheinwald made the statement as the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said she would look into claims by a group of Democrat senators that [...]
Politico: NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party “racist.”
