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David Petraeus Stories
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Biographer regrets affair with former CIA director
The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family. Paula Broadwell told WSOC-TV in Charlotte on Thursday (http://bit.ly/10RjHXE ) that she credited her husband and friends for standing by her as she ...
Badgered: Obama acts, but Republicans unsatisfied
President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack. The efforts did little to satisfy Republicans, who see the controversies ...
Obama calls on Congress to fund embassy security
President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to turn the tables on Republicans who have criticized his administration's response to last year's deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, calling on lawmakers to approve his request to increase funding for diplomatic security. Obama's call was the second step in as many days designed ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Investigations of IRS' targeting of groups is continuing in wake of ouster of top official WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner. Three congressional committees are investigating and ...
Details of Jolie's breast treatment revealed
Angelina Jolie's mother had breast cancer and died of ovarian cancer, and her maternal grandmother also had ovarian cancer — strong evidence of an inherited, genetic risk that led the actress to have both of her healthy breasts removed to try to avoid the same fate, her doctor said Wednesday. ...
Jolie: From girl with tattoo to woman with a cause
In her bad girl days, Angelina Jolie's body was a billboard for tattoos that said such things as "Billy Bob." Now she's sharing intimate details of her anatomy to help women at risk, going public with her preventive double mastectomy to greatly reduce her high odds of breast cancer. It's ...
Column: Rebounds typically follow sex scandals
The philandering Mark Sanford and the sexting Anthony Weiner are running on redemption. Based on the comebacks attempted by plenty of other politicians, athletes and celebrities felled by scandal, the strategy just may work. To a certain degree, it already has: Both men are back in the national political spotlight ...
Ex-CIA boss David Petraeus takes USC teaching post
David Petraeus' next tough assignment will be in the trenches of academia. The University of Southern California announced Thursday that the retired general and former CIA director is joining the faculty to teach classes and mentor ROTC members. Petraeus, who has a doctorate from Princeton University, says in a statement ...
CBS' Miller rises above the fray in Boston case
If John Miller had scheduled an earlier flight, the CBS News coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath would have been much weaker. Miller was driving home on the afternoon of April 15 to pick up his wife for their flight to a vacation in Florence, Italy. A ...
FBI agents enter Paula Broadwell's N.C. house
On Monday night, six FBI agents pulled up to Paula Broadwell's house in three separate cars. Broadwell is the woman named as the past lover of David Petraeus. The agents were all carrying briefcases, plastic tubs and cardboard boxes as they entered the home. WSOC-TV confirmed that the agents work with ...
Bin Laden's Kill-Don't Kill List
One of the pieces of correspondence released on Thursday by the U.S. Government from Osama bin Laden included direct orders to Al Qaeda subordinates to shoot down Air Force One if President Obama came to visit Pakistan or Afghanistan. But it also included an interesting "Don't Kill" list. Bin Laden ...
Using The Bully Pulpit
With the Congress out of town for over two weeks around Easter, the Obama White House has had the chance to dominate the news cycle in the second half of April. How well have they done? To me, one of the best tests of any White House is how well ...
Obama on Iraq
Here is the text of President Obama's speech to the nation from the Oval Office on the end of combat operations in Iraq. This was provided by the White House. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________________ EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY August 31, 2010 Remarks of President ...
Gen. Petraeus Returns
Two weeks ago today, General David Petraeus was testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee when he suddenly fainted at the witness table. Little did he realize that he would return as the President's choice to be the new commander of that war. Petraeus certainly has strong support in both ...
Heading To The Barn
With the Congress off next week for a July 4th break, that means lawmakers will act like kids who haven't studied for a test, and try to jam as much work into this week as possible. While the start of hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will dominate on ...
Gen. David Petraeus
Once again, a President is making the call to the bullpen on a war that isn't going as well as it could. And once again, Gen. David Petraeus is being waved in to offer his assistance. Back in the Bush Administration, Petraeus was brought in to institute the "military surge", ...
Iraq On My Mind
Not only does the current debate over a U.S. military surge in Afghanistan remind me of the debate just over two years about a surge in Iraq, but lawmakers and defense officials were also having trouble separating the two in a first day of hearings on the matter. "This is ...
Detainee Abuse Photos
The Obama Administration has made clear that it plans to take a legal dispute over the release of detainee abuse photographs to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. In papers filed with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday - yes, the same circuit that is home to Judge ...
The Politics of Iraq, Version Election.08
No one expected any kind of breakthrough this week on Iraq as General David Petraeus reviewed the situation for lawmakers. But after President Bush's statement from the White House on Thursday, the divisions on the war are more clear than ever. "President Bush delivered yet another address on Iraq," said ...
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 ...
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