Obama on The View: president is chatshow guest
Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian Barack Obama today becomes the first sitting US President to make a studio apperance on a daytime television chatshow, reflecting on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the economic crisis and the fact his soon-to-be teenage daughters still, for the moment, "like" him. Obama's third appearance on ABC's The View – he was a guest when a presidential candidate in 2008 and earlier when promoting his book Dreams from My Father in 2004 – was pre-recorded yesterday and will be aired in the US today. The View has been compared to the UK's Loose Women, but with a harder edge ...
Arizona’s Altered Immigration Law Takes Effect, State Heads Back to Court
Fox News Arizona's court-altered illegal immigration law went into effect just after midnight Wednesday, hours after a federal judge blocked its most controversial provisions -- including on-the-spot police checks of suspected illegal immigrants. Soon after Judge Susan Bolton's decision was announced, a spokesman for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said the state will appeal the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday, asking the appellate court for a swift decision to lift the injunction and allow the blocked provisions to take effect. Brewer vowed to take the case "all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary," ...
Anti-Immigrant Group Calls for ‘Safe Passage’ of Illegals Out of U.S.
Fox News An anti-immigration group is calling on the Obama administration to ensure a smooth exit for illegal immigrants who are trying to leave the U.S. due to the weak economy and Arizona's strict new immigration law. Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is urging U.S. citizens to pressure the White House and the HomelandSecurity Department to establish "safe departure" border checkpoints along the U.S. border for illegal immigrants so they can leave without fear of being detained or prosecuted for immigration crimes. "The peaceful and gradual exodus of illegals from Arizona shows there is no need for comprehensive immigration reform amnesty," William ...
Obama Missing Historic Boy Scout Jamboree for Fundraisers, ‘View’ Taping
Fox News President Obama will make history as the first sitting president on a daytime talk show when he visits with the ladies of "The View." But he'll be missing out on another historic occasion -- the Boy Scouts' Jamboree marking the group's 100th anniversary, right in the president's backyard. The Jamboree kicked off this week at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, where organizers had invited the president to speak to the 45,000 scouts in attendance. All three of Obama's predecessors have made it to one Jamboree while in office. But the president will instead be traveling Wednesday to New York for a taping of the ...
Pentagon hunts Wikileaks source
By Ashish Kumar Sen, The Washington Times The disclosure of classified military documents revealing close ties between Pakistan's intelligence service and militants fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan has prompted calls on Capitol Hill to rethink U.S. policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan. Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement late Sunday that the Obama administration needs to fine-tune U.S. policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan after the online publication of more than 90,000 reports of U.S. military field reports by Wikileaks, a website that publishes confidential ...
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Obama on The View: president is chatshow guest
Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian
Barack Obama today becomes the first sitting US President to make a studio apperance on a daytime television chatshow, … READ MORE
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OMB nominee got $900,000 after Citigroup bailout
By Jim McElhatton – The Washington Times
President Obama’s choice to be the government’s chief budget officer received a bonus of more than $900,000 from Citigroup Inc. last year — after the Wall Street … READ MORE
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Oregon Governor: Dudley (R) 47%, Kitzhaber (D) 44%
Rasmussen Reports
Little has changed in the race to be Oregon’s next governor, with Republican Chris Dudley and Democrat John Kitzhaber still running neck-and-neck.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds Dudley earning 47% … READ MORE
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Portland’s dark world of child sex trafficking
By Michal Elseth – The Washington Times
Portland, Ore., is widely featured as a young, green, hip city; it also has gained a reputation as a national hub for child sex trafficking.
State police report encountering three … READ MORE
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Nuke-smuggling network in demand
By Eli Lake – The Washington Times
Scientists, engineers and financiers involved in the A.Q. Khan nuclear-smuggling network are being contacted by several governments in an effort to lure these specialists out of retirement.
The development is raising …
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Airplane crash in Pakistan kills all 152 people on board; cause of the fiery disaster unknown
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A passenger jet crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan’s capital amid poor weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and blazing a path of devastation strewn with body parts and twisted metal wreckage.
Initial Interior Ministry reports …
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Dutch election victor seeks right-wing coalition
By Benjamin Birnbaum, The Washington Times
The winner of the Netherlands’ national elections in June is getting another crack at forming a right-wing coalition government, nearly seven weeks after Dutch voters went to the polls.
Mark Rutte …
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Two corruption cases haunt Thai leader
By Richard S. Ehrlich, The Washington Times
BANGKOK | Two corruption cases threaten to unseat Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, dissolve his political party and hobble the bickering coalition that administers Thailand’s military-backed government.
Prosecutors in the office of the …
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Local officials: Abducted U.S. service member killed
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — One American service member who was abducted in Afghanistan on Friday has been killed, provincial government officials said Sunday.
Den Mohammad Darwish, the spokesman for the governor of Logar province, said he learned from locals that the …
