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Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower

Reuters - 1 hour 35 minutes ago

An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris Tuesday.

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Congress, Obama spar over paying for Afghan plan
AP via Yahoo! News - 10 minutes ago
Amid soaring budget deficits, President Barack Obama is running into congressional qualms over how to pay for his troop buildup in Afghanistan. Military strategy aside, the $30 billion cost is causing concern on both sides of the aisle. Still, leaders in Congress predicted Wednesday that Obama would prevail in winning funding for the war escalation.
Obama aides defend ambitious Afghan scale-up
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 12 minutes ago
Top U.S. officials said the first of 30,000 new U.S. troops will arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks, but also made clear on Wednesday that plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip.
New Stem Cell Lines Open to Research
New York Times - 21 minutes ago
The action by the National Institutes of Health followed President Obama’s decision to change a policy set in the Bush administration.
Clinton, Gates Defend Afghan Strategy
NPR - 30 minutes ago
The Obama administration went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to sell its new Afghanistan policy to lawmakers. At the witness table before Senate and House committees: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen.
US lawmakers train fire on Obama Afghan plan
AFP via Yahoo! News - 33 minutes ago
US President Barack Obama's most senior diplomatic and military aides worked Wednesday to shelter his new Afghan "surge" strategy from skeptical lawmakers' bruising questions and criticisms.
WH gatecrashers went without confirmed invitation
AP via Yahoo! News - 41 minutes ago
Copies of e-mails between the White House party crashers and a Pentagon official undermine their claims that they were invited to President Barack Obama's first state dinner.
Skeptical Dems told 30,000 more troops can win war
AP via Yahoo! News - 41 minutes ago
Confronted by a wary Congress, the president's chief military and diplomatic advisers insisted Wednesday the quick infusion of 30,000 troops into Afghanistan was the nation's last, best shot at winning the war and staving off "severe consequences for the United States and the world."
Fort Hood suspect faces more charges in shootings
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 42 minutes ago
The U.S. Army filed additional charges of attempted murder on Wednesday against a military psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas in November.
Obama’s 2011 Afghan Drawdown Target Splits Lawmakers
Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 5 minutes ago
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s decision to set a target date for starting U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan divided lawmakers as he is seeking to consolidate support for his war plan.
US seeks to reassure Pakistan in fight against extremists
AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 8 minutes ago
The Obama administration sought Wednesday to win firmer backing from Islamabad in fighting extremism by pledging to sharply step up support for Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation wary of US actions.
Group urges Obama set goal of doubling exports
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 8 minutes ago
The United States should set a goal of doubling exports over the next five years, a U.S. business group urged President Barack Obama ahead of a White House jobs forum Thursday.
Troop buildup has political risks for Democrats
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 15 minutes ago
U.S. President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in Congress face potential peril in next year's election resulting from his decision to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
Shoe-thrower draws own footwear missile
UPI - 1 hour 27 minutes ago
PARIS, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush had footwear tossed at him in Paris, witnesses said.
U.S. Approves New Stem Cell Lines for Publicly Funded Research
HealthDay via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 44 minutes ago
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Thirteen stem cell lines have been added to the pool that scientists can use for taxpayer-funded research, and many more such lines will soon be made available, U.S. health officials announced Wednesday.
Doubts raised over Obama's Afghan withdrawal date
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 2 minutes ago
The first of 30,000 new U.S. troops will arrive in Afghanistan in two to three weeks, top U.S. officials said on Wednesday, even as they made clear plans to start bringing the soldiers home in 18 months could slip.
Obama now owns the war
CNN - 2 hours 16 minutes ago
The moment has to happen sometime in a new administration, and the Afghanistan speech was it: the end of the Obama campaign of limitless aspiration and the acknowledgement of a presidency burdened by harsh realities and difficult choices.
White House crashers went without confirmed invitation
USA Today - Wed Dec 2, 2:46 pm ET
Copies of e-mails between the White House party crashers and a Pentagon official undermine their claims that they were invited to President Obama's first state dinner.
Before Audience of Cadets, a Sobering Message of War
New York Times - Wed Dec 2, 9:02 am ET
Barack Obama may be the one president of the television age who can make a star turn at West Point look like a graduate seminar at Yale.
Live Blog: Congressional Hearings on Afghanistan
International Herald Tribune - Wed Dec 2, 2:25 pm ET
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defend President Obama's war strategy before a skeptical Senate Armed Services Committee.
Senators question 2011 Afghan exit plan
CNN - Wed Dec 2, 2:15 pm ET
Lawmakers Wednesday on Capitol Hill sharply criticized President Obama's plan to start a U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2011.