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Obama ‘America does not take strikes to punish individuals’
america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and ...
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Sen. Ted Cruz vs. The Republican Party
On the Senate floor, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he doesn't trust Republicans. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discusses this new era of in-fighting with fellow MSNBC host, Steve ...
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Man survives kidnap ordeal in New York
Police have rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3-million ransom from his family in ...
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Part of Washington state freeway span collapses into river dispatcher
(Reuters) - Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher ...
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Boy Scouts of America Lifts Ban on Gay Youth 61 Percent Voted for Resolution
May 23, 2013 7:04 pm After a contentious challenge to their membership policy, 1,400 delegates of the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America youth organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt an amendment that effectively lifts the ban on homosexual youth in the organization on Thursday.The ban on gay adult scout leaders will remain.Sixty-one percent of the delegates voted in favor of the resolution ...
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How young American fell victim to drone strike
Jude Kenan Mohammad, who was born in Florida and raised in Raleigh, N.C., is the least known of the four U.S. citizens whom the Obama administration acknowledged it had killed in drone attacks overseas since ...
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Boehner Committee Can Decide Whether to Subpoena Communications Between IRS and White House
- Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he will let the House Ways and Means Committee determine whether to subpoena crucial documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the White House that would reveal what the administration knew about the agency's targeting of conservative groups. The ...
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Bloomberg accused of threatening to destroy New Yorks taxi industry
USA New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has found himself at the center of unwanted media attention after allegedly unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against the CEO of a large taxi fleet company over his opposition to the city's "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan. The altercation, which is said to have occurred last Thursday during a basketball game at Madison Square Garden's private ...
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Obama drone policy strikes balance Our view
A Navy drone launches off the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia. It will help develop other unmanned, carrier-based ...
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Drones weaken USAs moral might Opposing view
There are more effective ways of winning hearts and minds and creating livelihoods worth living, not sacrificing. Armed drones, at first blush, are a boon to America's military toolkit, as President Obama reinforced in his counterterrorism speech on Thursday. Drones, in the short run at least, could mean fewer U.S. troops deployed and fewer American lives lost. OUR ...
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Boy Scouts march half-step forward Our view
Thursday's vote might well make it easier to fight prejudice in a new generation of Scouts. Sometimes progress comes in unsatisfying increments. That was true Thursday, when the Boy Scouts of America approved a half-measure that will allow openly gay Scouts into the organization for the first time, effective Jan. 1. Cheers should surely be muted because the Scouts couldn't bring ...
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National men’s team prop Andrew Tiedemann returns to Edmonton for Saturday test against Americans at Ellerslie Rugby Park
EDMONTON - Andrew Tiedemann's sport of choice doesn't provide many homecomings, so when Rugby Canada's national men's squad comes to Edmonton, the St. Albert native is all too happy to make the most of it.The Canadians will kick off a busy summer of competition this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Ellerslie Rugby Park when they host the United States in the opener of the five-team ...
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2 Dead in Drugstore Shootings in Tennessee
An East Tennessee pharmacy owner and a customer have been killed during a robbery that left a pharmacy tech and another employee wounded. District Attorney Jimmy Dunn said a former police officer in Bean Station was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and robbery Thursday at the Down Home Pharmacy. Dunn said the former officer, 37-year-old Jason B. Holt, took "a large ...
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Obama gives robust defense of targeted killing program
the president made no defense of the other three american citizens who have been killed including abd al awlaki, the 16-year-old of anwar awlaki. despite claims from previous administration officials to the contrary. ...
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Why Obama gave this counterterrorism speech now
Chris Hayes talks with Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, Spencer Ackerman of Wired Magazine, and The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman about the President Obama's speech and what it means for policy going ...
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Obama acknowledges protester is worth paying attention to
During a major speech on counterterrorism, touching on drones and Guantanamo Bay, President Obama was heckled by a protester with a history of interrupting speeches in both the Bush and the Obama ...
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President Obama makes case for end of the war on terror
Chris Hayes highlights the president's big policy speech on drone strikes, closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and ending the war on terror. He's joined by Congressman Keith Ellison, Democrat of ...
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Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester
1 of 2. Protester Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...
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Feds to review policy on media leaks
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said on Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of government ...
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10 Things to Know for Friday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. HOW OBAMA IS DEFENDING DRONE STRIKES The attacks are legal, effective and necessary as threats evolve, he says in a speech outlining America's post-war counterterror policies. 2. BOY SCOUTS END BAN ON GAY YOUTHS The decision is unlikely to end a bitter debate over the ...
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Antioch Hospital Patient Who Jumped Into Canal Identified
ANTIOCH (CBS SF) — A man whose body was discovered in the Contra Costa Canal nearly two days after he left a local emergency room and jumped into the waterway has been identified. A Contra Costa County coroner’s deputy said 48-year-old Brentwood man Saul Hernandez was found in the canal on Wednesday during an ongoing search of the ...
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UPDATE 1-Pentagon sees doubled cost for rocket launch program
Thu May 23, 2013 9:27pm EDT By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress that a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program to add 60 more launches and extend the schedule for a decade would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion. The Defense Department's annual report to Congress on major arms programs ...
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US Senate approves first India-born senior judge
The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved Srikanth Srinivasan as the most senior US judge of South Asian descent, amid speculation that he may one day be tapped for the Supreme ...
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Obama’s prom photos emerge
The two previously unpublished pictures were given to Time magazine by the girl who was escorted by Barak Obama's best friend. NBC's Ann Curry ...
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Republican minority outreach hits more road bumps
New comments from Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett on the lack of latinos in his cabinet, combined with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's decision to hire an accused white supremacist probably won't help the GOP with their minority outreach ...
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