Saturday, September 25, 2010

Obama administration seeks to dismiss al-Awlaki lawsuit



Lindsay Lohan freed after judge sends her to jail
BBC News
Actress Lindsay Lohan has been freed, hours after a judge sent her to jail for failing a drugs test. The Mean Girls star was released late on Friday after posting $300000 (£190000) bail, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman said. ...
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Iran could halt higher enrichment: Ahmadinejad
AFP
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iran would consider halting its 20 percent uranium enrichment if the West provides the fuel for a medical reactor in Tehran, ISNA news agency reported on Saturday. "Whenever they give us the fuel and we ...
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Pakistan Plane Evacuated, Man Detained After Bomb Threat
Voice of America
Swedish police evacuated a plane and detained one passenger Saturday, after the jet carrying 273 people from Canada to Pakistan was diverted to Stockholm because of a bomb threat. Police say the passenger, described as a Canadian citizen of Pakistani ...
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Obama Attacks GOP Agenda
Wall Street Journal
By MAYA JACKSON RANDALL WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama on Saturday came down hard on Republicans, accusing the GOP of offering only stale policy ideas that would help Wall Street and millionaires at the expense of the middle class. ...
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Fourth Mayor in Mexico Is Killed
Wall Street Journal
By NICHOLAS CASEY MEXICO CITY—A Mexican mayor was killed in the fourth such fatal attack since August, and another one was shot hours later, in a pair of attacks underlining escalating violence against the country's politicians. ...
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For some GOP lawmakers, Colbert's no laughing matter
Washington Post
By Dana Milbank Stephen Colbert plays an angry conservative man on television. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) plays one every moment of his life. On Friday morning, they met in the hearing room of the House Judiciary Committee. The result was kind of funny. ...
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Obama administration seeks to dismiss al-Awlaki lawsuit
CNN International
Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration has invoked the state secret privilege in seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of the father of Yemen-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, which sought to prevent the US government from trying to target ...
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