By Michael A. Memoli Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – As campaign foils go, George W. Bush was a very effective one for Democrats in 2006 and 2008, even though his name never appeared on a […]
By Jo Napolitano Chicago Tribune CHICAGO – A life-size statue of Elvis Presley is among a trove of Rod Blagojevich’s belongings in an Illinois storage facility that the warehouse owner says he will sell at […]
By Ken Ellingwood Los Angeles Times MEXICO CITY – Prison inmates allowed to leave their cells with weapons borrowed from guards carried out last week’s killings of 17 people in northern Mexico, federal authorities said […]
By Paul Richter Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – A federal watchdog blasted U.S. agencies on Thursday for squandering taxpayer money on facilities in Afghanistan that are too complex and costly for the Afghan government to […]
By Juan O. Tamayo McClatchy Newspapers MIAMI – Cuba will free 52 political prisoners and allow them to leave the island, Roman Catholic church officials announced Wednesday in a surprising concession that would be the […]
By Julian E. Barnes and Laura King Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON – Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of Western forces in Afghanistan, was summoned to Washington on Tuesday to explain unflattering comments about senior […]
JERUSALEM – Israel said Thursday it has agreed in principle to ease some restrictions on the flow of certain kinds of goods into the Gaza Strip. But details were not disclosed and Cabinet members remain […]
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration unveiled new measures Wednesday to isolate Iran commercially and financially from the rest of the world in hopes of convincing the Persian Gulf nation to suspend its uranium enrichment program. […]
Facebook continues to face criticism over privacy protections at its social networking website. Privacy and civil liberties groups on Wednesday urged Facebook to address issues they say violate the privacy of the site’s more than […]
DPA – Russian police have seized 100,000 copies of a book criticizing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the website of government opponent Garry Kasparov reported Wednesday. The book, titled “Putin. Results. 10 years,” was being transported […]
TORONTO, (UPI) – A Toronto television production company says it has located the wreckage of a missing U.S. submarine that was sunk in 1944 in the South China Sea. In a news release, yap films […]
WASHINGTON, (UPI) – More than a dozen state attorneys general Tuesday filed legal challenges to the healthcare law soon after U.S. President Barack Obama signed the measure. The lawsuits focus on the mandate requiring an […]
By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court justices, hearing a Second Amendment challenge to Chicago’s ban on handguns, signaled Tuesday they were ready to extend gun rights nationwide, clearing the […]
U.S. aid to Chile unlikely to boost U.S. image in Latin America By Paul Richter, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON _ The U.S. aid that poured into Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami paid handsome dividends for […]
By Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON _ An overwhelming majority of Americans think their federal government is gridlocked by partisan infighting and turf battles and can’t accomplish anything, according to a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll. Yet […]
NASHVILLE, (UPI) — The U.S. war in Afghanistan isn’t close to ending, Army Gen. David Petraeus said. It’s going to be hard. It is hard all the time, Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, […]
MOSCOW, Feb. 1 (UPI) – The Russian military has conducted the first successful flight of its long-awaited fifth-generation stealth jet fighter. Dubbed T-50, the Sukhoi prototype is the first fighter plane to be built by […]
By Julian E. Barnes, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – U.S. defense officials outlined plans to double production of unmanned aircraft, part of an expanded 2011 budget unveiled Monday shifting the Pentagon’s focus away from major […]
By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times BEIRUT – Leaders of Iran’s opposition movement and the country’s hard-line establishment sharpened their months-long confrontation Saturday, with opponents calling on demonstrators to take to the streets on a […]
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times BEIJING – The Chinese government Saturday announced a series of harsh retaliatory measures in protest of the Pentagon’s $6 billion arms sale to Taiwan, including a suspension of security […]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) – The United States has speeded movement of anti-missile defenses to the Persian Gulf to put pressure on Iran, government officials say. Four countries in the region have accepted U.S. missile […]
PERM, Russia, Dec. 8 (UPI) — The death toll from last weekend’s nightclub fire in Perm, Russia, has risen to 119, medical officials said Tuesday. A local medic told RIA Novosti that one more victim […]
LONDON, Jan. 31 (UPI) – China is running a massive program to spy on British business executives and hack into their computers, leaked intelligence documents indicate. A report written by the British spy agency MI5 […]
TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp., currently in the midst of a massive recall of vehicles in the United States, Europe and elsewhere over potentially faulty accelerators, was aware of a gas pedal flaw as early […]
BOSTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) – Prosecutors will use Internet evidence to build a case against a Massachusetts man accused of providing material support to terrorists, authorities said. Tarek Mehanna, 27, allegedly used his laptop and […]
By Robert Nolin, Sun Sentinel HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – The whiff of evil still lingers in a nondescript apartment off Hollywood’s Young Circle. There, a second-floor walk-up in a doomed and crumbling building, is where terrorists […]
TORONTO, (UPI) — The Winter Olympic Games gave Canada’s minority Conservative government a significant boost in popularity, a poll published Tuesday showed. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a 46 percent popularity rating in the Ipsos […]
BUENOS AIRES,(UPI) — Argentina tightened its security noose around the Falkland Islands with a tough new warning to Australian oil explorer Billiton to stay out of the controversial hydrocarbon prospecting operations in the Falklands, which […]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday amid new signs that the two remain deeply divided over continued Israeli construction in disputed Jerusalem. In […]
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM – By drawing a line against expansion of Israeli housing units in Jerusalem, the Obama administration is confronting a policy that enjoys a strong consensus among Israelis: the […]
By Janet Stobart, Los Angeles Times LONDON – Britain expelled a high-ranking Israeli diplomat Tuesday in retaliation for alleged misuse of British passports by Israeli agents suspected in the assassination of a senior Hamas commander […]
MOSCOW, (UPI) – Riyadh has reportedly been mulling the purchase of S-300PMU Russian air-defense missile systems and other arms worth as much as $4 billion, possibly as an inducement to Moscow not to supply such […]
By Richard Parker The arrest of 11 people on charges of espionage for the Russian government was a case of old-fashioned spy craft straight from the annals of the Cold War: dead drops, moles and […]
By Henry Chu Los Angeles Times LONDON – Three men suspected of preparing to mount a terrorist attack were arrested in Norway and Germany on Thursday in what authorities said was an al-Qaida plot with […]
By Steven Zeitchik Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – “Salt” director Phillip Noyce knew he had some serious dedication on his hands when he showed Angelina Jolie the facade of the apartment building that her […]
London (dpa) – BP Plc chief executive Tony Hayward is to step down following intense criticism of his handling of the worst oil spill in US history, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported Sunday. Hayward negotiated […]
By Sarah Avery McClatchy Newspapers A virus known to cause cervical cancer in women is increasingly being identified in head and neck cancers, leading to suspicion that the route of infection may be oral sex. […]
David Barber Wellington (dpa) – The state welfare system in New Zealand, which pioneered cradle-to-grave care of its citizens 72 years ago, is “unsustainable, outdated and fragmented”, an official inquiry reported Monday. It said that […]
Dominika Maslikowski Warsaw (dpa) – A fire on Monday night destroyed some 7,000 shoes of Nazi victims at a former death camp in Majdanek, southern Poland, local media reported Tuesday. The fire broke out at […]
David Barber Wellington (dpa) – New Zealand diplomats fear terrorists will attack a “soft target” in India ahead of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October, according to cables reported in a newspaper on […]
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