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Friday, June 1
Today is Saturday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2013. There are 213 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1479 - The University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is founded. 1524 - The yearlong anti-aristocratic Peasants' War breaks out in southern Germany. 1562 - Holy Roman Emperor ...
Text of President Obama speech on terrorism
Text of President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ___ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791— standing guard in the early days ...
Deal on bin Laden evidence in WikiLeaks case
Lawyers in the court-martial of an Army private who sent more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks said Tuesday they have reached a deal that may eliminate the need for testimony from a member of the military team that killed Osama bin Laden. Prosecutors also agreed to accept Pfc. ...
Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 20 people nationwide in a week of the most sustained sectarian violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew more than a ...
Wounded Iraq vet now says he will remain alive
Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war veteran who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said that he has decided to live for now. "I decided I was going to hold on as long as I can until it becomes too unbearable for me," Young said in ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Crews search through the night after tornado slams Oklahoma City suburb, killing at least 51 MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night early Tuesday lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous ...
Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. The shootings and bombings follow three days of attacks ...
Veteran's family aims to help others with PTSD
The sight of an old van parked on the street sent the soldier's mind back to Iraq. Tyler Armacost darted off the front porch of his parents' house and into the street because he thought he saw an Iraqi insurgent in the van. His mother tried to shake him and ...
Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war. The attacks followed two days of ...
Politics commandeer stage in Mideast TV contest
TV singing contests around the world tend to serve up light, glitzy entertainment with a dash of emotional drama. But in the Middle East's version of "American Idol," it's the region's troubles that often take center stage. Two contestants are from civil war-ravaged Syria, including a singer-composer whose bus was ...
The sex, money & sadism of 'The Devil's Double'
"Mamma Mia!" star Dominic Cooper gets serious in the incredible true story of an Iraqi army lieutenant hired to double for Saddam Hussein's son, and we have a look behind the scenes! In limited release July 29, Cooper plays both men -- lieutenant Latif Yahia and the notorious "Black Prince" Uday ...
No Movement In Two Days of Iraq Hearings
There was basically zero political movement in the political battle over the war in Iraq the past two days in Congress, as lamwakers made clear the best chance for change comes with this November's elections. For a second straight day, General David Petraeus and US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker held their ...
President Bush Speaks On Iraq
After two days of Congressional testimony from the commanding General in Iraq and the US Ambassador to that nation, President Bush is expected to embrace most if not all of the military's recommendations for US troop levels in Iraq. Mr. Bush will speak for 12-15 minutes from the White House ...
Back on Capitol Hill, What's the Game Plan?
As Senators John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama return for hearings today on the Iraq war with commanding General David Petraeus, put on your strategy hat for a moment, and let's think about what you want to achieve from your few hours back at your day job. Cleary, John ...
General Petraeus Meets Campaign 2008
As Iraq War Commander General David Petraeus goes before two U.S. Senate committees today, it will be difficult not to think about this day in political terms, as all three Senators running for President return for a day focused on Iraq. The first hearing today is before the Senate Armed ...
The Iraq War Returns to the Congress
While the Iraq War has been playing Second Fiddle to the economy in recent months in the Congress, that will change this week as Iraq War Commander General David Petraeus goes before lawmakers for hearings. Petraeus last showed up right after Labor Day at a time when some people thought ...
Obama Urges Nation To Deal With Racial Divide
It was supposed to be a speech where Barack Obama would address the at times controversial statements of his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Instead it turned it something much bigger than that. Obama seemed tense to some of those writing on more liberal blogs, though many felt like the ...
The Iraq War Five Years Later
A few months ago, I would have figured that the days leading up to the five year anniversary of the start of the current Iraq War would have been filled with news about Iraq. Instead, Iraq has been a bit player on the newscasts for the most part. Not only ...
Senate Debate on Iraq Fizzles For Now
After several days of at times snippy back and forth on the Senate floor, Democrats pulled a bill that would have ended combat operations in Iraq within 120 days of being signed into law. The bill - backed by among others, Sen. Barack Obama - wasn't going anywhere in the Senate, just ...
President Bush Jabs at Obama and Clinton
While President Bush isn't quite ready to get fully involved in the 2008 Campaign to replace him, ("Not yet," he said to laughter at a White House news conference,) he did take a few jabs at the two leading Democrats Thursday. While he didn't mention their names, it was clear ...
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