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Ahead of strategic dialogue US official goes to India
Ahead of US Secretary State John Kerry's June visit for the India-United States Strategic Dialogue, a senior American diplomat is travelling to New Delhi this week to exchange notes on the preparations. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, who will be in New Delhi May 24-25, will meet External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and other ...
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Chinese hackers resume cyber attacks on U.S. companies government agencies
Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on America three months after hackers, who worked for a cyber unit of China's People's Liberation Army, went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies. The hackers appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry security experts and American ...
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Did Justin Theroux have bachelor party at NYC
Justin Theroux is rumoured to have had celebrated his bachelor party in New York City. The 41-year-old actor, who was photographed enjoying a stag party at the Big Apple on Sunday, is fuelling speculation that he could be tying the knot with Jennifer Aniston sooner than expected, Contactmusic reported. A pal of Theroux, writer Gavin McInnes, posted a photo of himself fooling around with the ...
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Obama to reveal Guantanamo Bay plans drones strategy on Thursday
President Barack Obama will be speaking on his administration's evolving counterterrorism policies on Thursday, a White House official has said. The official told POLITICO that the president will also be discussing the administration's controversial use of drones and renewed plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Obama will discuss the country's broad counterterrorism policy, ...
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India-US Homeland Security dialogue to begin today
The four-day India-US Homeland Security dialogue between Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and his American counterpart Janet Napolitano will begin here today. Threats from terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and al-Qaeda, illicit financing and transnational crimes are high on their agenda. Both the sides are expected to take stock of the existing mechanisms such as the Joint Working Group on ...
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Tornadoes tear through central US
Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...
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Alleged unmasked CIA agent leaves Russia
Ryan Fogle, the man Russia's security services claimed to have captured last week as he tried to recruit a Russian to spy for the US, left Moscow Sunday, a media report said. Fogle checked in on a flight at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, NTV said. The Russian foreign ministry had earlier declared Fogle, a third secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, persona non grata for "activity incompatible ...
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White House knew of damaging IRS audit weeks before it became public report
Dan Pfeiffer launched a vigorous defense of the administration in a round of appearances on the Sunday talk shows, reiterating that President Obama knew nothing about the misdeeds within the ...
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Slims America Movil says to buy Start Wireless Group in U.S
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tracfone Wireless, the U.S. unit of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's phone company America Movil, has made a deal to acquire the assets of U.S. mobile virtual network operator Start Wireless Group, the company said on Monday.America Movil said in a statement that Start Wireless had around 1.4 million subscribers and offered pre-paid plans for voice, messaging and ...
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IRS Illegally Seized Medical Records of 10 Million Americans Lawsuit Claims
lawsuit filed in California in March claims that in the course of serving a warrant for tax records related to a single former employee of a southern California business, IRS agents "stole more than 60,000,000 medical records of more than 10,000,000 Americans." The agents did this in spite of the fact that such a seizure was not authorized by the warrant, was irrelevant to their ...
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Lapid tells New York Times I hope to succeed Netanyahu
"To say Yair Lapid has been on a roller coaster would be an understatement," states the lead in "The New York Times" interview with Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. It goes on to say, "One recent headline blared about his 'meteoric rise and fall,' another said he had gone from 'political darling to national whipping boy'." The newspaper says that ...
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Records give rare look at how feds probed one reporter
In 2009, the Justice Department did more than get a working journalist’s phone records in trying to find the source of classified information leaking out about North ...
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Punchlines Obama still in hot water
One comedian says that despite the scandal, at least two words will keep Obama from being ousted: President Biden. Listen to what else the comics had to say, then vote for your favorite at ...
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IRS Scandal Continues to Pressure White House
U.S. lawmakers are getting ready for a second week of scrutinizing the circumstances surrounding the IRS targeting of conservative groups, reports CNBC's John ...
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First Thoughts Scandal or bureaucratic incompetency
What’s worse for the Obama White House: For the controversies to be full-scale scandals that go all the way to the top?Or for them to be the result of bureaucratic incompetence?The latest IRS developments… On Obama’s Morehouse speech… Two unions now oppose the Senate immigration bill… Getting the Hillary ’08 band back together -- or not… And ...
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Plains All American building Oklahoma pipeline extension
Plains All American Pipeline is building an extension to its pipeline in western Oklahoma. Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline LP (NYSE: PAA) is constructing a 95-mile extension of its existing Oklahoma crude oil pipeline system to deliver increasing production from shale formations in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The pipeline will move up to 75,000 barrels each day from ...
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High court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a town in New York endorsed religion by allowing members of the public to open meetings with a ...
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Arias jury to weigh possible death sentence in Arizona murder trial
Jodi Arias cries as she listens to Steven Alexander, brother of murder victim Travis Alexander, makes his victim impact statement to the jury during the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 16, ...
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Justices agree to hear Fidelity whistleblower case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a case involving whistleblowers at Fidelity Investments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether mutual fund employees are subject to the same whistleblower protections as those who work for publicly traded ...
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Video White House on GOP charges Weve seen this playbook before
CBS News political director John Dickerson discusses what to expect in this week's round of hearings concerning the IRS scandal and how the White House is responding to Republican ...
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Video IRS scandal White House hits back at Republicans
The White House deployed senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer to defend the president's handling of the scandal and to accuse Republicans of going on a "partisan fishing expedition." CBS News' Nancy Cordes ...
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Researcher mapping the food genome of what Americans eat
In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, head of the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, points to an ingredient label while discussing his study, what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, in his office at UNC-Chapel Hill. Popkin is leading a massive project of researchers who are creating a gargantuan map, something he calls ...
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City asks feds to limit cost of divorce from Xcel Energy
City asks feds to limit cost of divorce from Xcel Energy Boulder has taken a big step on its path toward breaking off from Xcel Energy. Attorneys for the city filed a petition Friday with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. The petition asks the commission to "confirm" that the city wont owe Minneapolis-based Xcel (NYSE: XEL) any money for investments the utility ...
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The Weeks Homophobia Hits New Highs But Hate Was Transcended At New York Vigil For A Murdered Mark Carson
Google Images w/caption by Rev Dan While the rhetoric against the LGBT community has been ratcheted up in the last months due to the Boy Scouts and marriage equality, violence has also escalated. Calls for imprisonment and even death have surfaced at home and abroad. Last week in homophobia (click on links to see full ...
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Proposed Calif. measure requires doctor drug tests
Re the Feb. 11 letter, Park the car: Here’s an additional safety measure: Immediately impound the vehicles of persons driving with a suspended or no license or upon the first DUI. These might significantly diminish traffic issues as ...
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