Free speech issue in California: Political watchdog agency backs off controversial idea…for now »
With free speech arguments and the potential to harm political discourse, the director of the Fair Political Practices Commission, California’s political watchdog agency, has apparently backed off an earlier proposal to require writers of online media content to report financing from campaigns. The news comes from a recent Sacramento Bee report. Regarding the earlier proposal, ...
Roadside blast just misses UN monitors in Syria »
A bomb blast on the road from Damascus injured ten soldiers providing escort for a delegation of U.N. observers and journalists, and seemed to be more evidence that last month’s brokered ceasefire is just not taking hold. The U.N. delegation and the military escorts had just crossed a checkpoint when the bomb exploded, reports Voice ...
John Edwards: denied affair, told advisor to ‘f–k’ himself when confronted, and fired worker who warned about it »
Recounting for the courtroom on Friday, Peter Scher, who had been hired to advise former North Carolina Senator John Edwards politically, said the politician denied having a sexual relationship with Rielle Hunter when Scher asked him in September 2006. However, when Scher asked again before the 2008 presidential campaign, Edwards had a less nuanced reply. ...
Al Qaeda affiliated bomb plotter found guilty »
A U.S. citizen born in Bosnia was found guilty by a federal judge on Tuesday for planning a suicide bomb attack in New York’s subway system in 2009 as an al Qaeda terrorist. Adis Medunjanin, 28, has been found guilty on nine charges, including a plot to use weapons of mass destruction on American soil, ...
Obama signs pact with Afghanistan president »
President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday on the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden to sign a pact marking future relations with a country that the United States has been at war with for over a decade. President Obama landed at nightfall, where he was welcomed by President ...
Number of newborns facing drug withdrawal has sky rocketed »
The number of pregnant mothers abusing prescription drugs has dramatically increased, and the number of babies born suffering from withdrawal symptoms has tripled in the last decade, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that one infant is born in the United States every hour ...
Exiled former Libyan oil minister found dead in Danube »
Austrian police report the body of a former Libyan oil minister, Shukri Ghanem, who served under late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was found fully-clothed in the Danube River. A passer-by saw the body under a bridge near a popular recreation site in Vienna, the BBC news is reporting. Police spokesman Roman Hahslinger said Ghanem, 69, ...
Clinton and Obama team up in election year »
Despite President Obama’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama put the tension behind them to partner up in a Democratic re-election campaign on Sunday, making it the first time the two have teamed up in 2012. Sunday evening in northern Virginia marks the ...
British aid worker found beheaded in Pakistan »
A British aid worker, who had been held captive since January, was found beheaded outside Quetta in the southern Baluchistan province of Pakistan on Sunday. Attached to his body was a note saying he was killed because no ransom had been paid. Khalil Rasjed Dale, a 60-year-old Muslim convert, had been managing a health program ...
