By STEVEN R. HURSTAssociated PressWASHINGTONMitt Romney wants the United States to get much tougher with Iran and to end what a top adviser calls President Barack Obama’s “Mother, may I?” consensus-seeking foreign policy. With the presidential nomination all but locked
While the Obama Justice Department continues to pretend that voter ID is racially discriminatory and a violation of voting rights, courts keep on ruling against them. Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – an incredibly liberal appeals court –
Today, Senate Republicans hired Miguel Estrada, the 2002 judicial nominee for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals filibustered by Senate Democrats, to press a lawsuit against the Obama administration. The lawsuit itself is based on President Obama’s non-recess “recess appointment”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Drummer Levon Helm, a longtime member of The Band, is in the final stages of cancer, his family said on Tuesday. Helm, 71, who also toured with Ringo Starr’s All Star band in the 1980s and
The United States said Tuesday that persistent violence in Syria was “unacceptable” and demanded that President Bashar al-Assad do more to comply with a peace plan to end months of bloodshed. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that a ceasefire
By KARL RITTERAssociated PressOSLO, NorwayNorwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik insisted Tuesday he would massacre 77 people all over again, calling his July rampage the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since World War II. Reading a prepared statement in
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – When it comes to romantic drama, Nicholas Sparks has the Midas touch. All of his books have been global best-sellers, and six of them – including “The Notebook” and “Nights in Rodanthe” – have been turned
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea on Tuesday dismissed a rebuke by the U.N. Security Council of its failed long-range rocket launch and said it was no longer bound by an agreement with the United States for a moratorium on missile
A 25-year-old Detroit mother has been picked up on two counts of felony welfare fraud after she continued to take food stamps after failing to report to the state that she had just won $1 million in a lottery. Attorney
By ALAN CLENDENNINGAP Business WriterMADRIDArgentina’s President Cristina Fernandez is attempting to quell increasing unrest at home and boost her popularity with an “unlawful” bid to nationalize YPF, the Argentine oil unit of Spanish energy firm Repsol, the company’s president claimed
According to the Obama administration, green energy and battery-powered cars aren’t just the future – they’re the present. If so, somebody might want to get the memo to the American public, which seems less than enthused about cars like the
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) – Geologists in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilized dinosaur eggs laid by one of the huge extinct reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 60 million years ago. “We’ve found
Swedish Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth joined in an unthinkably repulsive event on Saturday in which she carved the labia from a cake baked to look like a “stereotypical African woman.” As the Swedish newspaper Fria Tider reported, “the
By KARIN LAUBAssociated PressBEIRUTThe Syrian regime widened artillery attacks on opposition strongholds Tuesday in another sign that the U.N.-brokered cease-fire is quickly unraveling despite the presence of foreign observers, activists said. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said he is asking the
By JAMEY KEATENAssociated PressPARISInternational sanctions targeting Syria’s repressive regime have depleted its financial reserves by half _ and Damascus is actively trying to evade them, the French foreign minister said Tuesday. Alain Juppe called for a solid international response to
The shuttle Discovery, the most journeyed spacecraft of the now-retired American fleet, on Tuesday made its final flight from Florida toward the Washington area museum, where it will go on display. Piggybacking atop a modified Boeing 747 kept by NASA
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange interviewed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday in the debut of his “The World Tomorrow” talk show on Russia’s state-funded RT cable broadcaster. Assange remains under house arrest and was speaking from his study in London
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twenty or 21 women were brought back to the hotel in Colombia by U.S. Secret Service agents and members of the U.S. military in an incident last week involving alleged misconduct with prostitutes, U.S. Senator Susan Collins
Iran will respond with force to any threats to its territorial integrity, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, adding that it would prefer to cooperate with its Arab neighbours to maintain security in the Gulf. Iran “is ready to protect
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) – Neighbors of George Zimmerman say he had bandages on his nose and head the day after he shot dead Trayvon Martin, supporting statements by the neighborhood watch volunteer that he was beaten in a confrontation with
Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney had a few choice words to President Barack Obama on Monday as the two gear up for a monumental election battle: “start packing.” Obama leads in the polls in a prospective head-to-head November match up
(AP) GOP derails Senate ‘Buffett rule’ taxes on wealthyBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONSenate Republicans derailed a Democratic “Buffett rule” bill Monday forcing the nation’s top earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes, using the day before
The United States on Monday ruled out Iran’s call for a lifting of sanctions, saying that the Islamic republic must first address concerns over its nuclear program in “concrete” ways. Iran held talks with major powers on Sunday for the
(AFP) Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was working on a solo album when he committed suicide in 1994, a former guitarist for the band of Cobain’s widow said in an interview with music TV channel Fuse. Erlandson said Cobain was writing
