07/14/11 As we wait for the Salafi leader Kamal Habib at the Cairo Journalists' Union, a sudden panic comes over me. I've just noticed that my translator, Shahira Amin, an Egyptian journalist, is wearing a sleeveless top and that her hair is uncovered. In my experience, Salafis, adherents of a very strict school of Islam, take a dim view of such displays of femininity. ...
07/14/11 KNOXVILLE - Tennessee senior defensive lineman Malik Jackson and junior defensive back Prentiss Waggner earned selections to the 2011 SEC Coaches Preseason All-SEC Team, adding to numerous preseason honors for the upperclassman standouts.
07/09/11 Some foreign-made computer components are being manufactured to make it easier to launch cyber attacks on U.S. companies and consumers, a security official at the the Department of Homeland Security said.
07/08/11 TGIF... from Tom McNamara. So let's play a little 'space trivia' on this day of the final shuttle launch: Q: Who is the only U.S. President to be present at a Shuttle Launch?
07/08/11 A new report by Gallup shows that many of the Republican presidential candidates have gained in name recognition among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents since March. Herman Cain showed the largest gain in name recognition.
07/08/11 As U.S. debt talks go down to the wire, FP reporter John Greenwood hits the road in Iowa. He finds a growing number of Americans believe returning to the gold standard is the only way to restore U.S. fiscal sanity
07/08/11 The June jobs report showed a .1 percent increase in unemployment
06/25/11 What's New: H C Carter's 207-acre Dripping Springs ranch straight out of an Old West movie
06/24/11 The most compelling piece of evidence that the Pakistani government was complicit in the harboring of Osama bin Laden came today in a New York Times report about a cell phone recovered from Osama bin Laden's courier. The phone reveals contacts with Harakat-ul-Mujahadeen, a militant group established by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Making matters worse for Pakistan, longtime ...
06/24/11 Jackie Barron tells this fabulous story: Forty years ago Dr. Edwin L. Skiles, Hardin-Simmons University president, made trips to promote graduate work at HSU for students from foreign countries.
06/22/11 NAHAL TOOSI Associated Press ISLAMABAD The revelation that a senior Pakistani army officer was detained on suspicion of ties to a radical Islamist group has raised fresh concerns about the reach and influence of an organization that has long vexed analysts and politicians. Hizb-ut-Tahrir says it rejects violence but uses venomous rhetoric and pushes for military coups. It seeks the overthrow of ...
06/22/11 BAGHDAD -- Bahrain's military tribunal on Wednesday sentenced eight Shiite Muslim political figures to life imprisonment, and 13 others, including a prominent Sunni Muslim politician, to between five and 15 years in jail.
06/20/11 Republican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch could face some tough competition in 2012 from a Democratic competitor, and also from within his own party, according to a Deseret News/KSL-TV poll released Monday.
06/20/11 The Jon Huntsman team has been teasing us for the past week now, but this is it folks.
06/20/11 Ninety days after U.S. enters Libyan civil war, bipartisan coalition in Congress maintains that Obama administration is in violation of the law that has governed U.S. military deployments for the past 38 years. YOU DECIDE: What Should U.S. Do Next? Libya: NATO Airstrike Kills 15 West of Tripoli EU Ministers Freeze Assets of Libyan Ports Gates Defends Libya Action Without Congressional OK Syria's ...
06/20/11 FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Scintillating is not a word I would use to describe the current field of Republican candidates hoping to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012. Stultifying is more like it. (L to R) Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Texas congressman Ron Paul, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. So far, former Massachusetts Gov. [...]
06/20/11 Jeremiah Bishop won the inaugural Wilmington/Whiteface 100K Mountain Bike Race Sunday, even though he used it as a tune-up for the world championships. Local David McCahill took the sixth spot.
06/19/11 (Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Jon Huntsman Jr. has boasted recently that Utah's health reform efforts have rejected an individual mandate for insurance. But when he was governor, he supported such a provision early in the healh reform debate.
06/17/11 EVERETT -- Marcus Littlewood's professional baseball career began with a brief false start. But today his coming out party begins in earnest.
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