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2009-11-22

Ethics Committee admonishes Burris

The Senate Ethics Committee on Friday closed its investigation into the controversial appointment of Roland Burris to fill the Illinois Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama but admonished him for “inappropriate” and “less than candid” statements about the circumstances that led up to his selection by now-indicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Obama approval dips below 50

President Barack Obama’s approval ratings have dipped below 50 percent for the first time in one prominent poll amid a raft of bad news about the economy and continuing job losses

Taliban chief hides in Pakistan

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service, three current and former U.S. intelligence officials said.

Transparency and Accountability at the Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve has taken extraordinary actions during the recent financial crisis, beginning most notably with the managed collapse of Bear Stearns in March 2008. These actions have vastly expanded the Fed's scope of dealings with credit markets and the sheer size of the central bank as a financial institution in its own right. Always imbued with enormous powers, the Fed now has a previously unimagined sway over financial markets generally and over individual institutions across the domestic financial system.

Central Park Jogger a lesson for gang rape case

To those who are ready to lock up the Richmond gang rape defendants and throw away the key, Sarah Kunstler has a few words of caution: the Central Park Jogger

Tough U.N. Critic Tapped to Represent U.S. on Human Rights Council

Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe has called the U.N. policy and record toward human rights abuses erratic, inhumane and dysfunctional. U.N. critics are cautiously optimistic she'll bring that hard-nosed attitude to the Human Rights Council as its U.S. ambassador

Iraq Working for Release of Americans Held in Iran

An Iraqi official says Baghdad has contacted Tehran in a bid to secure the release of three Americans detained in Iran, but has received no reply.

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2009-11-21

Holder Can’t Say Whether Osama Bin Laden Would Be Tried in Civilian or Military Court

Attorney General Eric Holder, under close questioning by Sen. Lindsey
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U.S. Enlists Allies in New Surge

U.S. Enlists Allies in New Surge

WASHINGTON -- The Obama admin
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U.N. Official Seeks Global Action on Iran

BERLIN -- Mohamed ElBaradei, the departing chief of the United Nations
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Rudy Giuliani Leaning Toward Run for U.S. Senate

Albany, N.Y. (AP) - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who many
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Muslim Countries Seek Blasphemy Ban

Geneva (AP) - Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set of
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Afghan President Promises to Fight Corruption As He Is Sworn In for Second Term

Kabul (AP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised Thursday to prosec
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Obama's Dysfunctional Decision-Making

WASHINGTON -- In the beginning, the Obama administration directed a sp
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