| BYO handgun? GOP convention could be the next gun rights battleground Posted: 26 Mar 2016 12:22 PM PDT  More than 20,000 people have signed a petition to allow the open carry of firearms at the Republican National Convention this July. The petition was launched Monday, March 21 with a goal of 5,000 signatures, which it reached by Thursday.
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| Pentagon chief used personal email account until December Posted: 26 Mar 2016 11:49 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter used his personal email account for government business for nearly a year, until December 2015, when news reports revealed the practice, according to hundreds of Carter emails released by the Defense Department.
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| Some Sanders supporters say it’s ‘Bernie or Bust’ and they will never vote for Hillary Clinton Posted: 26 Mar 2016 10:06 AM PDT Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders greets his supporters as he arrives at a rally at Key Arena in Seattle, Washington March 20, 2016. Bernie Sanders has dubbed his presidential campaign a "political revolution," but some of his supporters are rebelling against the very party he is hoping to lead. A voluble group of diehard Sanders backers is vowing online that it's "Bernie or Bust," saying they will never support his presidential primary opponent — and, at this point, likely Democratic nominee — Hillary Clinton. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Obama: Stigmatizing Muslims 'plays into hands' of jihadists Posted: 26 Mar 2016 07:45 AM PDT  President Barack Obama has urged Americans not to stigmatize Muslims following this week's deadly attacks in Brussels, saying that doing so is "counterproductive" in the fight against radical Islam. In his weekly media address, Obama said Muslim-Americans are "our most important partners in the nation's fight against those who would wage violent jihad. "That's why we have to reject any attempt to stigmatize Muslim-Americans, and their enormous contributions to our country and our way of life," Obama said.
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| Arrested Brussels suspect may be fugitive airport bomber Posted: 26 Mar 2016 06:57 AM PDT  A suspect has been charged with terrorist murder and police are trying to confirm if he is the third Brussels airport bomber who fled the scene, a source close to the probe said Saturday. "He has been charged with taking part in a terrorist group, terrorist murder and attempted terrorist murder," the prosecutor said in a statement, naming the suspect as Faycal C, one of six people detained in several separate police raids late on Thursday. Belgian media have repeatedly identified the man in the footage, who is wearing a light coat and black hat, as Faycal Cheffou.
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| Wrong number? Trump's TV telephone interviews in spotlight Posted: 26 Mar 2016 05:46 AM PDT  In television news, a telephone interview is typically frowned upon. Donald Trump's fondness for them is changing habits and causing consternation in newsrooms, while challenging political traditions. ...
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| Belgian prosecutors issue warrant for new suspect Posted: 26 Mar 2016 05:29 AM PDT  BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the bombings in Brussels that killed 31 people (all times local):
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| Obama stirs calls for change in Cuba. Can it last? Posted: 26 Mar 2016 04:54 AM PDT  "We shouldn't kid ourselves that they're going to all of a sudden tolerate dissent," said one observer.
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| Rolling Stones unleash rock and roll on massive Cuban crowd Posted: 25 Mar 2016 11:37 PM PDT  HAVANA (AP) — The Rolling Stones unleashed two hours of shrieking, thundering rock and roll on an ecstatic crowd of hundreds of thousands of Cubans and foreign visitors Friday night, capping one of the most momentous weeks in modern Cuban history with a massive celebration of music that was once forbidden here.
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| N. Korea video depicts imagined submarine attack on Washington Posted: 25 Mar 2016 11:20 PM PDT  North Korea released a new propaganda video Saturday titled "Last Chance", showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames. The video was published on the North's propaganda website DPRK Today and shows images from the Korean War, the capture of US spy ship Pueblo in 1968 and the first crisis over North Korea's nuclear programme in the early 1990s. The threats have turned increasingly personal, and North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday watched a live-fire long-range artillery drill simulating a strike on the official residence of his South Korean counterpart.
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| US teen describes surviving Boston and Belgium attacks Posted: 25 Mar 2016 07:37 PM PDT  GHENT, Belgium (AP) — An American teenager wounded in the Brussels Airport attack is lucky to be alive. And he knows it.
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| Pentagon to propose boosting US military presence in Iraq Posted: 25 Mar 2016 07:20 PM PDT  The Pentagon will submit proposals to President Barack Obama for strengthening military support to Iraqi forces in the near future, a top US military official said Friday. "We have a series of recommendations that we will discuss with the president in the coming weeks to further enable our support for the Iraqi security forces," said General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "(Defense Secretary Ashton Carter) and I both believe that there will be an increase in US forces in Iraq in coming weeks, but that decision hasn't been made," Dunford said Friday during a news conference at the Pentagon.
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| Cruz blames Trump for National Enquirer story about affairs Posted: 25 Mar 2016 03:37 PM PDT Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump at campaign stops earlier this year The already ugly race for the Republican presidential nomination took yet another nasty turn Friday, as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz accused rival Donald Trump of planting a National Enquirer story that alleged he has had multiple extramarital affairs. Published Thursday after weeks of rumors about the leader of the anti-Trump movement in the GOP primary, the story rumbled through the political world and burst onto Twitter, where some users have played a parlor game trying to identify the women. "For Donald J. Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding shows you there is no low Donald won't go… Donald Trump's consistently disgraceful behavior is beneath the office we are seeking." Trump, in a statement, insisted he had nothing to do with the story. "I have no idea whether or not the cover story about Ted Cruz in this week's issue of the National Enquirer is true or not, but I had absolutely nothing to do with it, did not know about it, and have not, as yet, read it," Trump said.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Belgian police shoot suspect in Europe-wide terror raids Posted: 25 Mar 2016 01:35 PM PDT  Belgian police shot a suspect as part of a huge European terror crackdown that netted several arrests Friday as France's president said a jihadist network that targeted both Paris and Brussels was being "destroyed". Grieving Belgians held prayers in the rain in a central Brussels square carpeted with flowers and tributes to the 31 dead and 300 wounded in Tuesday's carnage in Brussels, but there was also growing anger at the government for letting a string of militants slip through the net. The raids came as under-fire Belgian investigators uncovered alarming new evidence of a European jihadist cell tied to the bombings at Brussels' airport and metro, November's Paris attacks and a new French plot.
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