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Cut in nuclear stockpiles proposed by Obama in talks with Russia
BERLIN - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he would seek talks with Russia to reduce the number of strategic nuclear weapons both hold by up to a third. Speaking in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate during a visit to the German capital, Obama said he was confident the US could maintain its security while reducing its nuclear capacity by a third. He also called for ...
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Karzai says peace talks with Taliban should be Afghan led
KABUL - An angry Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday his government would not join US peace talks with the Taliban "until the peace process is totally under Afghan control." He also suspended talks with the US to discuss the nature of US military presence after international troops withdraw in 2014. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said the decision was taken over ...
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NSA director defends e-snooping claiming it helped foil 50 terror attacks foiled
WASHINGTON - The controversial US snooping of foreign emails and telephone calls has prevented more than 50 potential terrorist attacks in at least 20 countries, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) has said in defending the surveillance programme. The targets include the New York Stock Exchange and other important installations across the world, General Keith Alexander said ...
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American Medical Association Obesity is a Disease
The largest U.S. doctors' group said obesity is a disease. The decision, announced this week by the American Medical Association at its annual meeting, could lead to increased funding for obesity research and help people obtain insurance coverage for treatment for obesity. The AMA said obesity requires a range of medical interventions for treatment and prevention. Most insurance companies ...
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Obama proposes further US Russian nuclear arms cut
US President Barack Obama, currently on an official visit to Berlin, Wednesday proposed plans for America and Russia to further cut their strategic nuclear warheads. During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Obama renewed his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, and said the US would ultimately strive toward eliminating nuclear weapons, Xinhua reported. "After a ...
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US women in all combat units by 2016 Pentagon
American women will be fully integrated into frontline and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, by January 2016, the Pentagon has said. More than 200,000 women are in the active-duty military, representing about 14.5 percent of the overall force, according to Pentagon figures. Most serve in the army. While air force, army, navy, Marine and special ...
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Obama refuses to specify US support for Syrian rebels
US President Barack Obama, currently on a visit to Berlin, Wednesday refused to specify what military support America was providing rebels in Syria. Obama, however, reiterated that the Syrian government forces had used chemical weapons in the civil war, Xinhua reported. "I cannot and will not comment on specifics on our programmes related to the Syrian opposition," Obama said at a press ...
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Afghans break off talks with US on security deal
The Afghan government Wednesday said it has suspended talks with the US on the proposed security agreement, saying America has a contradictory stance over the peace process in the country. "The ongoing fourth round of talks between Afghanistan and the US on the security agreement is suspended. The decision was taken because of US inconsistency in statements and actions in regard to the Afghan ...
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Majority of Americans view GOP less favorably than Democrats finds poll
Americans view the Republican Party less favorably than the Democratic Party, a new poll has found. According to the Gallup Poll, just 39 percent of Americans said they hold a favorable view of the GOP, while 46 percent said they hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party. The poll found that a majority of Americans, 53 percent, see the Republican Party unfavorably, up slightly from 50 ...
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NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot
The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...
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Serena Williams sparks outrage with drunk not virgin comments on US teenage rape victim
American tennis star Serena Williams has sparked outrage with her comments about a teenage rape victim, saying that the victim was 'drunk' and 'maybe...not a virgin'. In an excerpt from Rolling Stone magazine, Williams criticised a 16-year-old girl who was raped by two football players, her fellow school students, while she was drunk, in Ohio in August 2012, News.com.au reports. According to ...
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Two New York men accused of assembling X-ray weapon
Federal authorities accused two men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel.The indictment charged 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists with the ...
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Did the American Medical Association make a mistake in classifying obesity a disease
Now that obesity is a disease, will there be fewer obese people? Don't count on it.According to the American Medical Association, obesity is now ...
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Father sentenced for binding kids outside Wal-Mart
LAWRENCE, Kan. -; A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern ...
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A New Moderate American Party Is Forming
Lovelace and Rex believe, however, that the new moderate American Party they are forming could put the majority of American voters at the helm, enabling them to steer to safer waters. The primary goal of the party will not be to address any single, self-contained issue, but to pursue targeted solutions within a broader range of concern. "The core issue is a competitive global ...
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The Chief Recipient of Government Welfare Corporate America
America has a massive national deficit of nearly $16.9 trillion; the government continues to spend money it doesn't have. What's the answer to this dilemma, what specifically needs to be done? Many of our esteemed politicians say that, to alleviate the condition, government welfare must be ended. So with that premise in mind let's examine the pros and cons of this ...
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Interactive How Supreme Court Justices voted this term
Ben F. Overton first donned the robes of the Florida Supreme Court in 1974, an era when the elected institution was marred by seedy politics and ...
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Bus company owner faces charges from 2008 crash
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi on more than a half dozen corruption charges accusing him of using his office for personal financial gain and looting a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 ...
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OfficeMax Office Depot pit Ill. v. Fla. for HQ
In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, OfficeMax CEO Ravi Saligram, right, and Illinois Sen. Tom Cullerton, D-Villa Park, left, make their pitch asking the state of Illinois for tax breaks to keep the company's headquarters in-state after the office supply chain's merger with Office Depot Inc., during a Senate Executive Committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, ...
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Mikulski backs oversight of military academies
Siding with the Pentagon's top brass, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday to keep commanders involved in deciding whether to prosecute sexual assault cases, rejecting an aggressive plan to stem sex-related crimes in the armed forces by overhauling the military justice ...
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Ohio woman allegedly enslaved spent time in jail
A woman told authorities she was held captive for more than a year by three people who forced her to do housework, raided her bank account and menaced her with snakes and pit ...
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Feds make find at former home of NY mobster
A woman ducks under crime scene tape in front of a New York city house once occupied by a famous gangster, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in New York. The work started Monday at the home of James Burke, a Lucchese crime family associate known as "Jimmy the Gent." He was the inspiration for Robert De Niro's character in the 1990 Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas." Burke died ...
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New York man given three-year sentence for computer hacking
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is still developing and testing computer systems meant to determine consumers’ eligibility for government subsidies, the Government Accountability Office said. Plans to train “navigators” to assist people in finding new insurance plans have been delayed about two months past a June deadline, the GAO found. The exchanges are set to ...
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Rick Perry bashes New York in ad to attract businesses to Texas
Photo credit: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Getty Images) Texas Gov. Rick Perry threw a gauntlet at the Empire State Wednesday in an attempt to woo employers to his neighborhood. The former presidential candidate stars in a TV ad that urges businesses to come to Texas by painting New York as a heavy taxer and business-unfriendly state. "If you're tired of the same old recipe . . . get out ...
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Australian dollar falls to two-year low as US Federal Reserve winds back stimulus
Australia The Australian dollar has fallen to its lowest level for almost two years, dipping below 93 US cents this morning after the US Federal Reserve said it could begin scaling back stimulus measures.The dive came as investors flocked to the safe haven of the US dollar amid fears the withdrawal of stimulus will affect the global economy.The Australian dollar was worth 94.2 US cents last ...
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