|
|
|
|
|
|
- AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick returned to City Hall on Thursday, a day after apologizing to family and constituents in a televised speech that avoided direct mention of a text messaging scandal that came to light a week ago. |
|
|
|
- AP - The renovated Saturn V rocket gleams like new, ready for its dedication. One would never know raccoons, birds and opossums were living in the 363-foot-long steel structure until recently. |
|
|
|
- AP - Republican Mitt Romney accused John McCain of using dirty tricks by suggesting the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, in a spirited debate Wednesday night that underscored the intensity of their presidential rivalry. |
|
|
|
- AP - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a national co-chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, banked at least $7,500 in political donations linked to an indicted Chicago businessman whose past connections to Barack Obama have been used by Clinton to criticize her rival. |
|
|
|
- AP - Details from the candidates’ fundraising reports for the fourth quarter of 2007: |
|
|
|
- AFP - Democratic heavyweights Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in their first one-on-one debate of the 2008 White House race here Thursday, trading pointed but polite barbs. |
|
|
|
- AP - The National Archives wants a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking quick access to records about a health care task force Hillary Rodham Clinton headed as first lady, or delay the release for about a year. |
|
|
|
- AP - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has a couple of things going for him at this weekend’s Republican caucuses: a band of highly motivated supporters and a natural appeal to Maine’s like-minded independents. |
|
|
|
- Reuters - Popular California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday, giving the Arizona senator a boost in his drive to gain his party’s nomination for the White House. |
|
|
|
- AP - Long lines, a shortage of poll workers and unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots could delay vote counts in the biggest-ever Super Tuesday in American politics ? a day in which nearly half the nation will cast ballots. |
|
|
|
- AP - The widow of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Democratic senator who helped Hillary Clinton in her first bid for the Senate, endorsed Barack Obama for president on Thursday. |
|
|
|
- Reuters - Barack Obama raised $32 million for his Democratic presidential nominating campaign in January, a huge haul that aides said will give him the ability to compete in a potentially long and costly race. |
|
|
|
- AP - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sparred, for the most part cordially, over immigration, health care and the war in Iraq in their first one-on-one debate on Thursday as they faced high-stakes Super Tuesday contests that could go a long way toward determining the party’s presidential nominee. |
|
|
|
- AP - Americans have a decidedly dour view of how things are going in the country and an outsized view of what one person ? the president ? can do about it. |
|
|
|
- AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday accused his rival John McCain of adopting underhanded tactics from Richard Nixon, the GOP president who resigned in disgrace. |
|
|
|
- AP - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Sen. John McCain in the Republican presidential race on Thursday, praising him as an extraordinary leader who can reach across the political aisle to get things done. |
|
|
|
- AP - One tapped his bounty of fans; the other his bounty of fortune. |
|
|
|
- AP - Republican John McCain says he opposed President Bush’s tax cuts because they didn’t come with spending cuts. That is not what he said at the time. |
|
|
|
- AP - TITLE: “Free Fall” |
|
|
|
- AP - John McCain appears to be steamrolling his way to the Republican nomination; Mitt Romney can’t seem to catch a break. |
|
|
|
- AP - A missile from a U.S. Predator drone struck a suspected terrorist safehouse in Pakistan and killed a top al-Qaida commander believed responsible for a brazen bomb attack during a visit last year by Vice President Dick Cheney to Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Thursday. |
|
|
|
- AP - A doctor whose disappearance just before Sept. 11, 2001, led her family on a painstaking search for answers was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, a court ruled Thursday. |
|
|
|
- Reuters - Australian David Hicks, the only Guantanamo Bay detainee convicted of terrorism charges, is at the centre of a worldwide media bidding war for his story, with a possible price tag of A$1 million (US$892,000), local media said. |
|
|
|
- AP - The United States, determined to prevent a resurgence of terror networks in Iraq, wants to preserve the right to hunt down top foreign fighters, as it negotiates a long-term security agreement with the Iraqis, according to a working draft described to The Associated Press. |
|
|
|
- AP - More cities across the country are considered at high risk of a terrorist attack, according to a new list of funding priorities from the Homeland Security Department. |
|
|
|
- Reuters - Arab governments will make more progress fighting home-grown terrorist groups if security agencies across the region work together and share information, officials at a security conference said on Thursday. |
|
|
|
- AFP - The US government on Thursday tightened access to US territory from Canada, requiring that both US and Canadian travelers entering the country present proof of identity and citizenship, the Department of Homeland Security said. |
|
|
|
- AP - Algerian security services have dismantled the terror group behind a pair of suicide bombings that killed 37 people, including 17 U.N. workers, Algeria’s interior minister said Thursday. |
|
|
|
- Reuters - President George W. Bush on Thursday signed a 15-day extension of an anti-terrorism surveillance law, giving legislators more time to work on a new law that Bush says must include retroactive legal immunity for telephone companies. |
|
|
|
- AP - Denmark will investigate claims that the CIA secretly used an airport on the Nordic country’s remote Arctic territory of Greenland to transport prisoners in the U.S. war on terror, the prime minister said Thursday. |
|
|
|
- AFP - The head of the FBI on Thursday hailed Cambodia’s role in the US “war on terror”, as the agency opened its first office in Phnom Penh amid rising concern over regional extremism. |
|
|
|
- AP - A Muslim militant who allegedly gunned down a Roman Catholic priest in a raid on a school in the southern Philippines was killed Thursday in a clash with troops pursuing an Indonesian terror suspect, the military said. |
|
|
|
- Reuters - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey drew congressional fire on Wednesday for refusing to rule on the legality of waterboarding, and said the CIA may again seek to use the harsh interrogation method. |
|
|
|
- Reuters - Afghanistan risks reverting to a failed state and a haven for global terrorism without new U.S. and international efforts to win the war and deliver economic development, two studies said on Wednesday. |
|
|
|
- AFP - Arab interior ministers arrived in Tunisia Wednesday to debate how to cut off funding for extremist networks and improve frontier controls at a two-day conference. |
|
|
|
- AP - The international Red Cross cited progress Wednesday on issues related to the U.S. detention of terrorism suspects but said more must be done to protect their legal rights. |
|
|
|
- AFP - Pakistani officials said Wednesday that a key Al-Qaeda-linked militant captured in a shootout in the southern city of Karachi planned to launch terrorist attacks on rallies for next month’s elections. |
|
|
|
- AFP - The head of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday lauded Chinese security preparations for the Beijing Olympics and said he expected a terrorism-free Games. |
|
