If the US had ever come up with Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda honcho would likely have headed straight to Gitmo: “He’d probably be subjected to a military commission,” Donald Rumsfeld told CNN today. But the defense secretary says he wouldn’t have visited: “No. He’s not my type.” Of course,…
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Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemen president, offered to oversee dialogue between opposition groups and government officials due to civil unrest throughout the country. The offer came on Sunday after 3000 university students demonstrated at the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, urging the president to step down from power. Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra has more from the Yemeni capital.
Continue reading …Losing sleep over news that the national deficit will hit $1.6 trillion this year? Well, why not make a donation to help cover some of it? Every little bit helps, after all—and, as Consumerist points out, the Treasury Department has a program that enables you to donate via…
Continue reading …Ever wonder the secret to Lady Gaga’s killer abs? No? Well, it’s a little something she likes to call “the drunk diet,” reports the New York Daily News. “I like to drink whiskey and stuff while I’m working.” But it’s not all boozy fun: “I’ve got to work out every…
Continue reading …The new president of the Annandale, Va., neighborhood association is causing a firestorm of controversy: Seems the good neighbors blindly elected Beatha Lee, described as a new resident with experience running a 26-acre estate. The good Ms. Beatha, however, is a Wheaten terrier, reports the Washington Post, and not everyone’s…
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is confronting the most serious challenge to his rule in 42 years. Government forces have been unleashed onto protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi, where one hospital official put the death toll at 200. Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker takes a look at the scale of the unrest in the country.
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Al Jazeera’s correspondent James Bays has the latest from Pearl Roundabout in the capital Manama.
Continue reading …A video showing anti-government protesters in Tehran shouting “Death to the dictator”.
Continue reading …President Obama’s deficit commission co-chairs may think real fiscal responsibility is still possible, but Eric Cantor thinks the president’s budget “shattered our best hopes” with its “conspicuous lack of candor.” “This is a leadership moment,” he writes in an opinion on Politico. “House Republicans took the lead by passing the…
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