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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.
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.
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'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.
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 ...
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.
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, acknowledging the controversy over his role as a wartime president. Read more...
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.
Coordinated Bombings Killed 127; Iraqi Security Forces Come Under Scrutiny
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.
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time. The United States just didn’t believe him.
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.
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.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Iraq on Thursday after ending a two-day trip to Afghanistan.
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.
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.
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.