WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday the alleged terror plot disrupted in New York was “one of the most serious in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001” — but he gave no indication when more Muslim arrests might be made. In a question-and-answer session with reporters, Holder said prosecutors will bring all […]
ISLAMABAD | Taliban Islamic militants claimed responsibility Tuesday for the deadly suicide bombing at the U.N. food agency’s heavily fortified compound in Islamabad, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in “the interest of Muslims.” The attack, which killed five workers for the World Food Program on Monday, pushed the U.N. to temporarily close […]
Iran has the know-how to produce a nuclear bomb and may already have tested a detonation system small enough to fit into the warhead of a medium-range missile, according to confidential papers. The “secret annexe” to this year’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran summarises information submitted by intelligence agencies about the country’s […]
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations […]
During her presentation Michelle Obama claimed that some of her fondest memories were sitting on her Dad’s lap watching Carl Lewis in the Olympics… Uh… Michelle… you were 20 years old! http://tinyurl.com/yas8gnq
Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. ‘In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against […]
WASHINGTON – A top U.S. commander’s public plea for more troops in Afghanistan prompted a mild rebuke Sunday from the White House national security adviser, as the administration heads into a second week of intensive negotiations over its evolving Afghan strategy. Retired Gen. James Jones said that decisions on how best to stabilize Afghanistan and […]
Williams, a lifelong Republican whose hits include Moon River and Music To Watch Girls By, told the Radio Times he thought Mr Obama wanted to turn the US into a “socialist country”. The 81-year-old was a friend of the Kennedy family during the 1960s and was present at the Los Angeles rally where Robert F […]
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators said Tuesday they expect U.S. bank failures to cost the deposit insurance fund about $100 billion in the next four years and the fund to be running at a deficit this month. That is higher than an earlier estimate of $70 billion in failure costs through 2013. The Federal Deposit Insurance […]
