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- Romney: White House sent 'mixed signals' on attack
- US investigates: Attacks coordinated to mark 9/11?
- THE RACE: Foreign policy emerges on campaign trail
- Obama vows justice after U.S. envoy killed in Libya
- House renews surveillance law for 5 years
- Romney, Obama trade barbs over Middle East attacks
- New York police add security in wake of Libya protests
- US investigates: Attacks coordinated to mark 9/11?
- Bear hugs, biker babe: Campaign 2012 gets physical
- Smoke, confusion and a missing ambassador in Libya attack
- Libya attack may have been planned and organized
- Obama vows to track down ambassador's killers
- Number of U.S. poor holds steady but earnings gap grows
- Chris Stevens: US envoy to the Arab world
- Mitt Romney's Evolving Position On Libya
- HHS Secretary Sebelius violated politicking ban
- Libya rescue squad ran into fierce, accurate ambush
- Today's Political Rorschach Test, Romney's 'No Apology' Foreign Policy as Applied to Libya
- Both sides "dug in" as Chicago teachers strike drags on
- Insight: Iran parks oil off Malaysia to dodge Western sanctions
- Obama's bear-hugger says he'd hit campaign trail
- Ryan: Attacks a reminder world needs US leadership
- Insight: Afghans seek shelter in Dubai ahead of pullout
- Obama slams Romney over criticism on Mideast attacks
- President Obama Says Romney "Has a Tendency to Shoot First, Aim Later"
- Israeli campaigners eye Rio for Munich commemoration
- Obama: Romney did not 'have facts right' on attack
- Peru won't negotiate with rebels like Colombia: Humala
- Russian Prime Minister Medvedev says punk rock band should be freed
- Kenya minister charged, sacked over deadly land clashes
- US lawmakers blame China over maritime disputes
- U.S. says Benghazi was "complex attack", no word on attackers
- Wider health coverage spurred by reform, income decline
| Romney: White House sent 'mixed signals' on attack Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:35 PM PDT
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| US investigates: Attacks coordinated to mark 9/11? Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT
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| THE RACE: Foreign policy emerges on campaign trail Posted: 12 Sep 2012 10:52 AM PDT Foreign policy has long simmered on a back burner while the ailing economy has dominated the U.S. presidential race. But it has now burst to the forefront. |
| Obama vows justice after U.S. envoy killed in Libya Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to bring to justice the killers of the U.S. ambassador and three other diplomats in Libya as he sought to avoid election-year fallout from an attack that cast a spotlight on his administration's handling of "Arab Spring" unrest. Standing in the White House Rose Garden, Obama condemned the attack in Benghazi as "outrageous and shocking" but insisted it would not harm relations with Libya's new elected government, which took power in July after rebel forces backed by NATO air power overthrew Muammar Gaddafi Last year. ... |
| House renews surveillance law for 5 years Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:51 PM PDT The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly renewed a surveillance law that allows the government to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects abroad, while requiring approval from a secret court when Americans are targeted anywhere in the world. |
| Romney, Obama trade barbs over Middle East attacks Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:49 PM PDT
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| New York police add security in wake of Libya protests Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:44 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police have added security at Coptic Christian churches around the city in case a film denouncing Islam sparks violent protests like those in Egypt and Libya. In New York, the police department said it had "no evidence of any attacks planned against targets in the city," but had added security based on "reports that Coptic Christians were linked in some fashion to the video." Church officials and police in other areas where there are Egyptian-American Coptic communities said they saw no need for extra precautions. ... |
| US investigates: Attacks coordinated to mark 9/11? Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT
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| Bear hugs, biker babe: Campaign 2012 gets physical Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:40 PM PDT
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| Smoke, confusion and a missing ambassador in Libya attack Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Security personnel were separated from the U.S. ambassador to Libya during the attack in which he was killed, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, describing a chaotic scene of smoke, gunfire and confusion as the American consulate in Benghazi came under attack. The officials, describing their preliminary understanding of the incident, said the attack began at roughly 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, with U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, information technology specialist Sean Smith and one security officer trapped under fire in the burning consulate building. ... |
| Libya attack may have been planned and organized Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:25 PM PDT
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| Obama vows to track down ambassador's killers Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:23 PM PDT
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| Number of U.S. poor holds steady but earnings gap grows Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:21 PM PDT
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| Chris Stevens: US envoy to the Arab world Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:21 PM PDT
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| Mitt Romney's Evolving Position On Libya Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:17 PM PDT Mitt Romney's criticism of President Obama's handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was his latest foray into the issue of how to handle Libya and it has been a position that has appeared to have contradictions. When fighting escalated between rebel... |
| HHS Secretary Sebelius violated politicking ban Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:15 PM PDT A government ethics office says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated a federal law that restricts political activity by government officials. |
| Libya rescue squad ran into fierce, accurate ambush Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A squad of U.S. troops dispatched by helicopter across the Libyan desert to rescue besieged diplomats from Benghazi on Wednesday ran into a fierce overnight ambush that left a further two Americans dead, Libyan officials told Reuters. Accounts of the mayhem at the U.S. consulate, where the ambassador and a fourth American died after a chaotic protest over a film insulting to Islam, remain patchy. But two Libyan officials, including the commander of a security force which escorted the U.S. ... |
| Today's Political Rorschach Test, Romney's 'No Apology' Foreign Policy as Applied to Libya Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:12 PM PDT Who Advises Romney on Foreign Policy? Bolton, Senor… Neoconservatives - Shush Walshe and Chris Good report that Dan Senor left his detail with Paul Ryan to deal with Romney more specifically on Libya. They report that Romney has long sought to distinguish himself from the... |
| Both sides "dug in" as Chicago teachers strike drags on Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:09 PM PDT
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| Insight: Iran parks oil off Malaysia to dodge Western sanctions Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:07 PM PDT
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| Obama's bear-hugger says he'd hit campaign trail Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:07 PM PDT
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| Ryan: Attacks a reminder world needs US leadership Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:06 PM PDT
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| Insight: Afghans seek shelter in Dubai ahead of pullout Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:05 PM PDT DUBAI/KABUL (Reuters) - Not long ago, Mohammed Daoud was making good money hiring out halls for wedding parties thrown by a new class of Afghan war entrepreneurs. Today, he is using some of the profits to buy a $160,000 apartment nestled amid the skyscrapers and shopping malls of Dubai. Daoud sees his 27th-floor bolt-hole as both a canny investment and the ultimate insurance policy against the darkest scenarios he can envisage for his homeland when the bulk of foreign forces leave. "Nobody knows what's going to happen after 2014," he told Reuters in Kabul. ... |
| Obama slams Romney over criticism on Mideast attacks Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:48 PM PDT
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| President Obama Says Romney "Has a Tendency to Shoot First, Aim Later" Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT President Obama assailed the reaction of his GOP opponent to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi Wednesday, saying "Governor Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first, aim later. And as president, one of the things I've learned is you can't do... |
| Israeli campaigners eye Rio for Munich commemoration Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:42 PM PDT
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| Obama: Romney did not 'have facts right' on attack Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:42 PM PDT President Barack Obama says Republican Mitt Romney "seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later." |
| Peru won't negotiate with rebels like Colombia: Humala Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:40 PM PDT LIMA (Reuters) - Peru will crack down on the political wing of the Shining Path and quash armed remnants of the insurgency, President Ollanta Humala said on Wednesday, dismissing the idea of holding peace talks with the rebels. The Maoist insurgency that nearly toppled the state was severely weakened after its founder Abimael Guzman was captured in 1992, but it did not disappear altogether. The government says the Shining Path's political arm, known as Movadef, is trying to rebuild by infiltrating labor unions and environmental groups. ... |
| Russian Prime Minister Medvedev says punk rock band should be freed Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:39 PM PDT
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| Kenya minister charged, sacked over deadly land clashes Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - A government minister pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges he had incited violence in a dispute over land and water in Kenya's coastal region in which over 100 people have been killed, but was later sacked from the Cabinet anyway. The scale and intensity of the unrest over the past month has left many Kenyans convinced it was instigated for political reasons and has raised fears of serious tribal unrest ahead of elections next March. ... |
| US lawmakers blame China over maritime disputes Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:36 PM PDT U.S. lawmakers Wednesday accused China of bullying its neighbors to press territorial claims in the South China Sea but also raised questions about America's capacity to police the region. |
| U.S. says Benghazi was "complex attack", no word on attackers Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador was "clearly a complex attack," a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, while declining to speculate on who the perpetrators might be. The official said the United States, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, would work with Libyan officials to investigate the incident but that it was too early to discuss who might have been responsible for the attack or whether they had affiliations outside of Libya. (Reporting By Andrew Quinn; Editing by Doina Chiacu) |
| Wider health coverage spurred by reform, income decline Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some 1.3 million more Americans had health insurance in 2011, as healthcare reform helped blunt a decade-long decline in private coverage and government safety nets expanded to cover growing numbers of the poor, elderly and disabled. Census Bureau data released on Wednesday showed that the number of uninsured shrank to 48.6 million people from 50 million in 2010, leaving 15.7 percent of the U.S. population without the most reliable means to pay for doctors, hospitals and life-saving procedures including cancer screenings. ... |
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