Politics
Friday, April 11th, 2008
HE SHOT his hunting partner, but Vice-President Dick Cheney apparently doesn't fly-fish with naked women.
Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been a-twitter over a photograph on the White House website of Mr Cheney with a caption that said he was fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho.
The photo is a tight ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
A U.S. official confirmed to FOX News Wednesday that Al Qaeda operative and bomb expert Abu Ubaida al-Masri is dead.
Al-Masri was one of the top 10 Al Qaeda leaders and was responsible for the organization's external operations, meaning he plotted attacks outside the tribal areas of Pakistan.
The unidentified official said ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Working from a cramped loft apartment a mile from the Capitol, a small Internet company has sparked a privacy rights battle with hundreds of angry top House staffers upset that the Web site has begun posting details about their personal finances.
In an unusual conflict over constitutional rights, the aides ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Navy SEAL Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor saved the lives of at least two fellow SEALs on Sept. 29, 2006 when he threw his body atop a grenade in Ramadi, Iraq and on Tuesday President George Bush presented the Medal of Honor to his family in recognition of ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The top U.S. military commander in Iraq told a Senate committee today that improved security in Iraq is "fragile and reversible" and recommended a pause in the withdrawal of U.S. forces after mid-July.
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he has recommended to his ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress, trying to appear tightfisted with taxpayer dollars this election year, found on Wednesday that some in their own ranks led a list of "pork" spenders in a watchdog group's analysis of government waste.
The annual survey by Citizens Against Government Waste claims that ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Speaking for the first time about her husband's acknowledgment that he paid for sex with an alleged prostitute, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told the Free Press this afternoon she's going through a "very difficult and personal" time and will continue to work throug it with her family.
The senator ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey endorsed Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, a move that could help the presidential candidate make inroads with white working-class voters dubbed "Casey Democrats" in the Keystone State.
Appearing on stage beside the Illinois senator, Casey told a boisterous rally, "I believe in my heart that there is ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
DAYTON, Ohio, March 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush defended the pace of political and economic reform in Iraq on Thursday and accused members of the U.S. Congress of "hectoring" Baghdad and threatening its leaders.
Bush also praised Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for launching a "tough battle against ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned.
The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in vestigation, law-enforcement sources ...
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