PARIS (Reuters) – Nicolas Sarkozy was headed for an election defeat on Sunday that could make him the 11th European leader to be swept from office by the economic crisis and crown Francois Hollande as France’s first Socialist president in
From Reason: After a relatively uneventful president and vice-presidential nominating process, all hell broke loose at the Libertarian National Convention when the Libertarian Party attempted to pick a new national committee chair. The race between current chair Mark Hinkle and vice
By CRISTINA SILVAAssociated PressLAS VEGASFormer New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is campaigning to win the White House as a Libertarian after receiving scant attention in the Republican presidential race. Johnson easily became the party’s presidential nominee at the Libertarian national
By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama says his goal of defeating al-Qaida is within reach and that it’s time to turn the country’s attention to domestic concerns. Just four days after his trip to Afghanistan, Obama said that money saved
From US News: The lawyer for the first American arrested with the help of a pilotless drone says “guerilla-like police tactics” were used to make the arrest. Lakota, N.D., resident Rodney Brossart was arrested last June after a bizarre 16-hour
From SlashFilm: Jones, who is something of a history expert, said no one has ever portrayed Lincoln as well as Day-Lewis does in this film. Being as we have yet to see anything official from Lincoln, this is more than
From The Hill: Climate change has had a direct effect on national security, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said this week. Panetta told an audience at the Environmental Defense Fund that climate change has raised the need for humanitarian assistance and
By RAHIM FAIEZAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanThe in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women’s rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge said
By SARAH EL DEEBAssociated PressCAIROMilitary prosecutors ordered the detention of 300 protesters on accusations of attacking troops and disrupting public order during violent clashes outside Egypt’s Defense Ministry, a prosecution official said Saturday. The Friday clashes were some of the
LOS ANGELESLots of superheroes add up to lots of money for “The Avengers.” The film featuring a team of Marvel Comics heroes pulled in $80.5 million in its domestic debut Friday, the second-best haul ever on opening day. The huge
One of the accused 9/11 plotters shouted “You are going to kill us” during a chaotic proceeding Saturday before a military court charging them with the deadliest attacks ever on US soil.
BEN FOXAssociated PressGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CubaThe self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks repeatedly declined to respond to a judge’s questions Saturday and his co-defendant was briefly restrained at a military hearing as five men charged with the worst
By KAREN MATTHEWSAssociated PressNEW YORKFamily members of some 9/11 victims are watching on closed-circuit TV as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and four co-defendants are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Jim Riches was among the family members watching
The northern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo saw a brutal day of gang violence, with 14 headless bodies found stuffed in a vehicle and nine bodies found hanging from a bridge.The gruesome crimes came less than two months before
(AP) Romney targets 4 percent unemploymentBy JULIE PACEAssociated PressWASHINGTONJostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation’s unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it “good
(AP) London re-elects Boris Johnson as mayorBy CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and DAVID STRINGERAssociated PressLONDONLondon’s rumpled, comic and outspoken Boris Johnson has won a second term as mayor of the British capital, triumphing in a surprisingly close election that installs the unvarnished
American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks is a free-market apostle. And he is convinced that conservatives can win the argument between free markets and statism if they speak about it in unambiguously moral terms. This is the central point of
US President Barack Obama fires up his first official campaign rallies on Saturday at an inopportune moment, just as the strong jobs-led recovery he hopes to ride to reelection seems to be stalling. Obama was set to whip up young
(AP) Race, religion collide in presidential campaignBy JESSE WASHINGTON and RACHEL ZOLLAP National WritersHow unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. Yet here
The UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples has called on the United States to mitigate the “sense of loss” among the Native American community by restoring some tribal lands. James Anaya, made the comments after a 12-day
More than 140 people were injured on Friday when gas-filled balloons exploded at a governing party campaign concert in the Armenian capital ahead of parliamentary polls on Sunday, officials said. The emergencies ministry said 144 people suffered burns when scores
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICONMEXICO CITYA state official says that 23 people have been killed in an explosion of drug-cartel violence in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, with the killers hanging nine of the bodies from a bridge and leaving
(AP) AURORA, Colo. – A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his suburban Denver school for three days after school officials said he told a girl “I’m sexy and I know it,” a line from a popular song. D’Avonte Meadows, a
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network may have a whole new headache on its hands. The struggling network, which recently canned Rosie O’Donnell after the former Queen of Nice couldn’t deliver big ratings for Winfrey, may be facing more money woes, according
