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Activist at Utah oil auction to assert new defense
Telluride Daily Planet - 2 hours 35 minutes ago
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The federal government has acknowledged it never prosecuted anyone who failed to pay a bid for drilling rights in Utah until a college student offered his bogus bids in an act of environmental defiance.
Raction To Obama's Nobel Speech: Brokaw, Friedman, Serwer (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post - 2 hours 39 minutes ago
What's Your Reaction? Pundits have begun reacting to President Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. On MSNBC's Morning Joe the hosts were surprised that the President defended the use of force to the extent that he did considering he was accepting a peace prize.
Graduation speaker brings heightened security
The Red and Black - 2 hours 42 minutes ago
University Police have helped secure Supreme Court justices, congressmen and even sitting presidents, so the arrival of Defense Secretary Robert Gates for this semester's graduation ceremony looks to be just another day on the job. "There will be some heightened security," University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.
Al Qaeda Claims It Is Behind Deadly Baghdad Blasts
Fox News - 2 hours 53 minutes ago
Al Qaeda's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for coordinated Baghdad bombings this week that killed 127 people and wounded more than 500, warning of more strikes to come.
Gates arrives in Iraq to meet with officials
Air Force Times - 2 hours 55 minutes ago
BAGHDAD — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived Thursday in Iraq to meet with Iraqi officials amid a wave of bombings that claimed 127 lives and rattled the country’s government. U.S. military leaders who greeted Gates defended the Iraqi security forces’ response to the attacks.The second leg of Gates’ previously unannounced tour of two major U.S. war zones came as al-Qaida’s umbrella ...
Gates arrives in Iraq to meet with officials - Navy News, news from Iraq - Navy Times
Navy Times - 2 hours 56 minutes ago
BAGHDAD — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew to Iraq on Thursday to begin the second leg of his tour of two major war zones.
Obama accepts Nobel Prize with 'deep gratitude and great humility'
The Hill - 2 hours 57 minutes ago
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, acknowledging the controversy over his role as a wartime president. Read more...
Defense Secretary Gates arrives in Iraq
FOX10 Mobile - Thu Dec 10, 9:35 am ET
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Iraq Thursday to meet with Iraqi officials amid a wave of bombings that have claimed 127 lives and rattled the country's government.
Al Qaeda Claims Deadly Baghdad Blasts
CBS News - Thu Dec 10, 9:30 am ET
Coordinated Bombings Killed 127; Iraqi Security Forces Come Under Scrutiny
Conan Mocks Dick Cheney's "Radical" Take On Obama (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 10, 9:12 am ET
What's Your Reaction? Dick Cheney appeared on Fox News Tuesday night and referred to President Obama as "more radical" than the traditional Democratic president . But according to the footage Conan O'Brien ran last night, Cheney had even more to say about the "evil" Obama, implicating him in the unlikeliest of crimes.
PROMISES, PROMISES: A closed meeting on openness
Park Hills Daily Journal - Thu Dec 10, 9:11 am ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public.
Climate drama climax looks elusive in Copenhagen
Park Hills Daily Journal - Thu Dec 10, 9:07 am ET
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.
The Propaganda Success of the 'Surge'
consortiumnews.com - Thu Dec 10, 8:54 am ET
Editor’s Note: It is an overpowering consensus in Washington that the relative decline in Iraqi violence must be attributed to President George W. Bush’s “courageous” decision in 2007 to “surge” U.S. troop levels, a lesson that now must be repeated in Afghanistan.
Saddam was telling truth in missing Gulf War pilot
Park Hills Daily Journal - Thu Dec 10, 8:51 am ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn’t believe him.
Body of trapped Utah spelunker won't be recovered
Park Hills Daily Journal - Thu Dec 10, 8:46 am ET
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — The popular Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed, state and county officials said Friday.
Nader noncommittal to Conn. Senate run
Park Hills Daily Journal - Thu Dec 10, 8:46 am ET
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Consumer activist and Connecticut native Ralph Nader said Friday he is “absorbing” the reaction he’s receiving about a possible bid for the U.S. Senate, saying he wants to first gauge the level of grassroots support before making a decision.
Gates arrives for Baghdad visit
CNN - Thu Dec 10, 8:39 am ET
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Iraq on Thursday after ending a two-day trip to Afghanistan.
Small Florida bank shuttered, 124th this year
Park Hills Daily Journal - Thu Dec 10, 8:31 am ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults.
Gates makes unannounced visit to Baghdad
UPI - Thu Dec 10, 8:29 am ET
BAGHDAD, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad Thursday on a visit to a city in shock from a series of bombings that killed more than 100 people.
Japanese PM: No meeting with Obama on Futenma - Navy News, news from Iraq - Navy Times
Navy Times - Thu Dec 10, 8:26 am ET
TOKYO — Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama suggested Thursday that he would give up the idea of meeting one on one with U.S. President Barack Obama in Copenhagen next week to discuss the relocation issue of a Marine Corps airfield in Okinawa, after Washington shunned the Japanese leader’s overtures.