Wednesday night at the White House, President Barack Obama announced the phased withdrawal of 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, with a target of removing the rest of a 33,000 surge force by next year. There are now some 100,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan fighting a war that is nearly 10 years old. The president said it is time to bring some of them home. He cited the strengthened position of U.S. and NATO forces and momentum achieved against the Taliban. Pressuring al-Qaida At the same time, Obama said al-Qaida in Pakistan ...
In a recently released video surveillance footage... the Immigration and Naturalization Service released today footage of suspected illegal Mexican immigrants fleeing from the scene of a large forest fire in Southern Arizona.
The life of Huma Abedin, wife of seven-term congressman Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), has been thrust under a microscope after Weiner admitted at a news conference Monday afternoon to lying about sending a lewd photo of himself to a Seattle woman on Twitter, The Washington Post reports. [caption id="attachment_4746" align="alignnone" width="630" caption="Huma Abedin and her lil Weiner!"][/caption] Weiner also admitted to sexually explicit phone and Internet exchanges with several other women as well. Weiner offered a tearful apology to Abedin during the news conference Monday afternoon. Abedin was not by Weiner’s side Monday but says she is committed ...
Pelosi: Weiner must go! U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner Saturday sought treatment and a leave of absence from Congress after the top two Democratic congresswomen called for his resignation. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who heads the Democratic National Committee, both said Saturday it was time for Weiner to give up, the Los Angeles Times reported. U.S. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., added his voice. The calls came after Delaware police questioned a 17-year-old girl who had communicated with Weiner on Twitter. She says Weiner, who has admitted sending explicit ...
[caption id="attachment_4731" align="alignnone" width="658" caption="Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman Feuding!"][/caption] It looks like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann might genuinely be frenemies now. A day after Ed Rollins, Bachmann's top political adviser, trashed Palin in a radio interview, a top adviser to the former Alaska governor slammed the longtime GOP strategist and called on the Bachmann camp to retract his statements. "Beltway political strategist Ed Rollins has a long, long track record of taking high profile jobs and promptly sticking his foot in his mouth," Michael Glassner, Palin's chief of staff, said in a statement to Politico's Ben Smith. "To no one's surprise ...
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