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Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Congress on Thursday that the surge force of 30,000 going to Afghanistan will grow to at least 33,000 when support troops are included.
USA TODAY founder Al Neuharth blasts the president's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan. This, he says, could cost Obama a 2nd term.
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Friday, Dec. 4, 2009.
If you listen to Congress, you might think most people owe a lot of taxes when they die. Republicans like to call the inheritance tax the "death tax," while Democrats say it hits only the very rich. But, as is often the case, the truth is more complicated.
DALLAS, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are earning hefty speaking fees that experts say may come to $100,000 for 40 minutes work.
Two groups have emerged as finalists to take over ownership of the Texas Rangers. The new owner could be revealed as early as next week's winter meetings. A person with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed several media reports that groups headed by Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg and former sports agent Dennis Gilbert are finalists.
Security help for Mexico promised under the so-called Merida Initiative, including helicopters and scanners for contraband detection, has been held up by red tape, a U.S. agency says. A small fraction of U.S. aid for Mexico's drug war under the so-called Merida Initiative has been delivered because of red tape and the time needed to order helicopters and other equipment, a U.S. government report ...
The United States government has only spent 2 percent of the more than $1 billion it has pledged to help Mexico fight drug traffickers.
President Barack Obama kicked off a White House jobs forum on Thursday by saying he's "open to every demonstrably good idea" to reverse the worst job losses in decades. But Obama said the government's resources are limited and that growth ultimately must come from the private sector.
President Barack Obama's top advisers rebuffed lawmakers' charges on Thursday that plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan ignored a larger threat of militants across the border in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
As tempting a target as Sen. Christopher J. Dodd is for Republicans in 2010, one Connecticut candidate has decided to skip a crowded Senate primary and instead run for governor.
With his speech on our war in Afghanistan this week, the president who once preached “change” fully embraced his predecessor’s most dangerous idea: The Bush Doctrine. Describing this doctrine at West Point in 2001, said then President George W. Bush: “If we wait for threats to materialize, we will have waited too long. The war on terror will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle ...
The Capitol Steps will poke fun at politicians in Morristown.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. forces will leave Afghanistan gradually based on security in local areas, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told lawmakers as he sought to deflect Republican criticism of a target July 2011 troop-drawdown date.
The images of the slain, burned and mutilated Blackwater contractors hanging from a bridge in Fallujah , Iraq , in 2004 -- with cheering crowds around them -- shocked the United States.
President Obama’s decision on Afghanistan was tardy, messy — and courageous. In contrast to the expectation that he would settle on a timid half-measure, Obama took more of a seven-eighths measure, leaving his commanders impressed and satisfied. In contrast to former Vice President Richard Cheney ’s charge that Obama is making national security decisions for “small ‘p’ political reasons,” the ...
Top US officials renewed their defense of President Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan on Thursday as skeptical lawmakers questioned the costly mission and a July 2011 date to start an American withdrawal.
WASHINGTON – The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, scheduled to begin in July 2011, will “probably” take two or three years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, although he added that “there are no deadlines in terms of when our troops will all be out.” The Pentagon, meanwhile, quietly acknowledged slippage on the front end of the 30,000-troop deployment that President Obama ...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Elliott Broidy , founder of Markstone Capital Partners, pleaded guilty to making almost $1 million in illegal payments to obtain favors from New York officials, the fifth conviction won by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in his probe of state pension fund corruption.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday defended his record at the helm of the U.S. central bank before a skeptical Senate that is considering stripping the institution of its regulatory powers.
Interfaith Youth Core founder will be 1st Muslim to deliver keynote address at Greater Chicago Leadership Breakfast Interfaith Youth Core founder will be 1st Muslim to deliver keynote address at Greater Chicago Leadership Breakfast.
