| Obama won’t apologize for Hiroshima during trip to Japan Posted: 02 May 2016 12:30 PM PDT  President Obama may visit Hiroshima when he travels to Japan late this month for a summit of key industrialized nations, but he will not apologize for the World War II decision to destroy that city with an atomic bomb, the White House said Monday. The question arose because John Kerry recently became the first U.S. secretary of state to visitHiroshima's Peace Memorial Park.
|
| Heidi Cruz responds to people who call her husband the Zodiac Killer Posted: 02 May 2016 10:53 AM PDT  Heidi Cruz knows that her husband, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is not the Zodiac Killer, no matter what people online say. Heidi spent Monday morning traveling across Indiana in support of her husband's presidential campaign. There is a popular Internet meme where people have asked whether Ted Cruz is the infamous Zodiac Killer, who was responsible for a string of unsolved murders and taunting letters to law enforcement in California during the late 1960s and early '70s.
|
| Ted Cruz Debates Trump Supporters as They Shout at Him in Indiana Posted: 02 May 2016 01:25 PM PDT  Supporters of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump shouted in his rival Sen. Ted Cruz's face as he squared off with them on an Indiana street for more than seven minutes, just a day before Indiana's do-or-die GOP primary. Cruz was finishing up a campaign stop at a restaurant alongside a river in a small town northeast of Indianapolis when he heard half a dozen men chanting "Lyin' Ted" and other slogans across the street. "I'm running to be everyone's president," Cruz told the men.
|
| The Saudis may know something about oil the rest of us don’t Posted: 02 May 2016 08:21 AM PDT "They're hedging the uncertainty that their oil is going to be worth less," one investor says. |
| Unconventional #9: Cruz’s post-Indiana delegate problem, Sanders’ real strategy for a ‘contested convention’ (and more!) Posted: 02 May 2016 08:25 AM PDT It's been said that the only way Ted Cruz will still have a shot at the Republican nomination is if he wins the Indiana primary on Tuesday. But what if Indiana can't save Cruz? |
| CIA marks 5th anniversary of bin Laden’s death by ‘live-tweeting’ raid that killed him Posted: 02 May 2016 06:37 AM PDT  Agency reveals details about daring assault on al-Qaida leader's compound on Twitter.
|
| French journalist infiltrates jihadist cell for six months Posted: 01 May 2016 08:16 PM PDT  A French journalist infiltrated a cell of would-be jihadists, filming them with a hidden camera as they plotted an attack in the name of the Islamic State group, before they were arrested, he told AFP. The journalist, a Muslim using the pseudonym Said Ramzi, carried out the investigation for a documentary entitled "Allah's Soldiers" which gives an insight into the minds of young jihadists, and will be shown in France on Monday night. "They had the misfortune of being born in the era that the Islamic State exists.
|
| Train derails in Washington, D.C.; leaks hazardous chemical Posted: 01 May 2016 06:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials warned Washington D.C. area residents to brace for a potentially slow commute Monday after a CSX freight train derailed near a Metro stop, sending 15 cars off the tracks and spilling hazardous material.
|
| Trump's rise is driving immigrants to become citizens Posted: 02 May 2016 02:21 PM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — On a recent Saturday morning in South Florida, 50-year-old Edgar Ospina stood in a long line of immigrants to take the first step to become an American.
|
| Saudi Binladin Group lays off 77,000 workers: report Posted: 01 May 2016 05:28 PM PDT  One of Saudi Arabia's most powerful firms, the Saudi Binladin Group, has laid off 77,000 foreign workers, a Saudi daily reported on Monday, citing an anonymous company official. Saudi Binladin Group confirmed to AFP that some staff have been let go, but gave no numbers. The report in the Al-Watan newspaper is the latest alleging tens of thousands of layoffs, unpaid salaries and unrest by employees of the firm which built some of the Gulf country's landmarks.
|
| U.S. in desperate bid to save Syria truce as Aleppo bombed Posted: 02 May 2016 01:34 PM PDT  US Secretary of State John Kerry launched a desperate push Monday to salvage a ceasefire in Syria, as the country's second city of Aleppo reeled from a week of fighting that killed hundreds of civilians. With the two-month old truce brokered by the United States and Russia under severe threat, Kerry said Washington and Moscow had made progress in trying to contain the bloodshed, but warned it was premature to promise success.
|
| Raging fire destroys historic NYC church Posted: 02 May 2016 05:49 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A historic church in New York City was destroyed in a raging fire just hours after its Orthodox worshippers celebrated Easter.
|
| Where they are now? Key players in the bin Laden raid Posted: 01 May 2016 11:32 PM PDT  Five years ago, United States special forces shot and killed Osama bin Laden, ending a manhunt that began in earnest after his Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked planes and flew them into buildings in New York and Washington in September 2001. Having originally come to office in the aftermath of global financial meltdown, Obama had put America back on track, extricated its forces from the "dumb war" in Iraq and had seemingly won the smarter war against Al-Qaeda by ordering the mission to kill bin Laden.
|
