| Obama: All in Christmas Day plot 'will be held to account' Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:47 AM PST ![]() President Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaeda affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist attack that has prompted a top-to-bottom ...
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| Yemen sends more troops to al-Qaida strongholds (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 06:07 AM PST  AP - Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday.
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| John Major criticises Iraq invasion motives Posted: 02 Jan 2010 05:05 AM PST ![]() AFP/File – Prime Minister Tony Blair (right) pictured with former Prime Minister John Major in Parliament in 1997. … Criticising his successor Tony Blair over his presentation of the case for invading, Major told BBC radio that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain may have been a "bad man" -- but that w...
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| Late cleric's son warns of more Iran turmoil: report (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 06:19 AM PST  Reuters - Iran's rulers must compromise with opposition figures to avoid a worsening of the political turmoil, the son of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri said in comments released on Saturday.
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| Why Flight 253 Could Delay Guantanamo's Closure (Time.com) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:07 AM PST  Time.com - Most of the remaining prisoners are from Yemen. Returning them to that country isn't likely to weaken al-Qaeda
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| Cities, counties take back corporate tax breaks (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 09:51 AM PST ![]() Cash-strapped communities have a message for corporations that promised jobs in return for tax breaks: A deal's a deal. As the economy sputters along, municipalities struggling to fix roads, fund schools and pay bills increasingly are rescinding tax abatements to companies that don't hire enough workers, that lay them off or that close up shop.
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| Funeral held for powerful Canadian mobster's son (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 02:07 PM PST  AP - The bells of an Italian Renaissance-style church in Montreal chimed softly Saturday as pallbearers carried the gold coffin of the son of the reputed head of Canada's most powerful Mafia family.
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| Afghan parliament rejects Karzai's Cabinet list (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:07 AM PST  AP - A chastened President Hamid Karzai must submit new Cabinet picks after defiant lawmakers rejected 17 of his 24 nominees Saturday, including a powerful warlord and the country's only woman minister.
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| Comedian Kathy Griffin Swears on CNN's New Year's Eve Broadcast Posted: 02 Jan 2010 09:07 AM PST  CNN: For the second straight year, comedian Kathy Griffin ushered in the new year by saying something vulgar on CNN. During the network's live New Year's Eve broadcast from Times Square, Griffin was joking with co-host Anderson Cooper about how to pronounce the first name of "balloon boy" Falcon Heene when she mumbled something that sounded a little like "Falcon" and a lot like the F-word. Cooper hung his head, shook it and said "You're terrible," before resuming his banter. The network said in a statement Friday that it "regrets that profanity was used during our New Year's Eve coverage."
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| Tim Tebow teaches your kids how to selectively quote the Bible Posted: 01 Jan 2010 08:28 PM PST ![]() In his last game tonight, the Sugar Bowl against Cincinnati, Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is wearing, as he has so many games, a Bible cite on his eyeblack. (Tebow was Christian-home-schooled, and his name has been invoked in many states in legislation that would allow home-schooled students to play on public school sports teams, as his home state of Florida allows.) Tebow's last choice was Ephesians 2:8-10. The verses goeth: 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God's
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| Chinese banks find their credit in high demand Posted: 01 Jan 2010 09:48 PM PST  BEIJING -- China's state-owned banks have become a main engine of the global recovery, financing the construction of copper mines, purchase of airplanes, expansion of retail stores and other projects even as their U.S. and European counterparts scale back lending.
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| Volcano erupts in eastern Congo, official says (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 05:07 AM PST  AP - A government official says a volcano has erupted in eastern Congo, sending lava toward a national park.
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| Group wants NFL to boot The Who from Super Bowl Posted: 01 Jan 2010 12:13 PM PST ![]() A South Florida child abuse prevention group wants the NFL to reconsider booking The Who for the Super Bowl halftime show. Child AbuseWatch.net objects to Pete Townshend performing because of his 2003 arrest by British police on suspicion of possessing child pornography. He was eventually cleared but placed on a sex offenders registry for five years as part of a formal police caution for accessing...
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| Saudi Arabia criticizes Israel settlement building (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:04 AM PST ![]() AP - The Saudi foreign minister on Saturday criticized Israel's settlement construction and said the country acts like a "spoiled child" because the international community is not tough enough in pressuring it to make concessions.
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| Rush Limbaugh says doctors found "nothing wrong" (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 09:20 AM PST  Reuters - Influential conservative U.S. radio host Rush Limbaugh said on Friday doctors had found nothing wrong with him after he was hospitalized this week in Hawaii with sharp chest pains.
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