Sarah Palin says the recent attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day was evidence that the Obama administration doesn't understand the war on terror.
She told the "tea party" convention Saturday that questioning the suspect for 50 minutes and then reading him his constitutional right to a lawyer is not the way to treat an alleged terrorist. …
SPRINGFIELD Gambling interests that pushed for a casino inRosemont and for the reopening of Arlington International Racecoursefattened the political war chests of Gov. Ryan and the toplegislative Republicans by $161,900. The top Democratic leadersshared $17,500.
The figures, compiled from recently filed state campaign records,offer a glimpse of how the state's gambling barons successfullyushered in the first major change to state gaming laws in nearly …
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The United Nations has condemned Nepal's appointment of a former communist rebel commander as information minister while he is still a suspect in a kidnapping and murder case.
The world body said Friday that Nepal's government broke commitments to investigate human rights abuses during the country's decades-long civil war by appointing Agni Sapkota as minister of information and communications despite the open case against him.
Sapkota says he is innocent in the 2005 abduction and killing of a man in Kavre district, just east of Katmandu, in a crime blamed on the Maoist rebels.
Police opened a criminal case three years later — after a U.N.-brokered …
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's attorney general has said that controversial bills that would sharply restrict funding for dovish groups are starkly unconstitutional.
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would not be able to defend the bills in court, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The bills "do grave damage to a string of constitutional rights, including freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and equal rights," said the letter sent to the prime minister's office last week.
The bills, approved last month by a ministerial committee, would limit annual donations to a single group by foreign …
TWO men accused of stealing laptops worth Pounds 1,100 andcomputer cables from two Carmarthen shops have appeared before townmagistrates.
The pair both denied two charges of theft, which allegedly tookplace at PC World and The Sony Centre on November 2. Appearing incourt in Carmarthen on Wednesday were Jonathan Evans, aged 39, ofCrosslet Place, Cardiff and Stephen John Pugsley, aged 48, of …
HIBERNIA, Ind. - After a four-year absence, raccoon is back on the menu for the Hibernia Community Building's annual fundraiser. LaVeran Lorenz, 86, has agreed to resume cooking duties for the March 24 event - with a little help with the cleaning. "It's not like cleaning a chicken, I'll tell you that," said Dina Woods, one of Lorenz's neighbors who agreed to learn how to clean raccoons for cooking.
Allus Franklin and other hunters in the town on Hibernia Road off Indiana 62 about 20 miles north of Louisville, Ky., have bagged 103 raccoons for the event. "When they told us, we'd already caught 40," he said.
"It's the biggest day in Hibernia, I think," Woods said.
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Ford Motor Co. took another step to stay cost-competitive with government-financed automakers General Motors and Chrysler when it offered to exchange up to 40 percent of its debt for cash and stock.
The company and its financial arm are putting up $2.2 billion in cash to entice holders of $10.4 billion in convertible notes, other unsecured debt and secured term debt to take the offer. The company said Wednesday that reducing the debt will cut the amount it pays in interest and put it in better position to compete with General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.
"This is all part of a restructuring plan to make the company healthier in the end," said Ford …
