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Mexican drug war erupts: At least 30 die in separate incidents
At least 30 people died in a staggering surge in drug-related violent crime in Mexico rocking the cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara, and the northern state of Chihuahua, police said Saturday. The attacks were the latest deadly violence gripping Mexico's war on drugs, as the country's various criminal cartels struggle over turf and the government [...]
11:57 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story White House reiterates demand that Iran allow protests
A senior White House official on Saturday criticized Iran's refusal to let opponents of the regime hold a rally in support of Arab uprisings. "By announcing that they will not allow opposition protests, the Iranian government has declared illegal for Iranians what it claimed was noble for Egyptians," National Security Advisor Tom Donilon said in [...]
11:10 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story FBI can obtain phone records without oversight, Justice Dept memo claims
Without court oversight, the nation's top law enforcement agency can obtain domestic records of telephone conversations made to international receivers, the Justice Department claimed recently. "[The Office of Legal Counsel] agreed with the FBI that under certain circumstances (word or words redacted) allows the FBI to ask for and obtain these records on a voluntary [...]
07:13 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story American's imprisonment delayed US-Afghan-Pakistan meeting
WASHINGTON ? A scheduled high-level meeting among U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officials this month has been postponed, the State Department said on Saturday amid a deepening diplomatic rift over a U.S. man locked in a Pakistani jail accused of murder. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the decision to scrap the February 23-24 meeting had [...]
05:38 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Pakistani court issued arrest warrant for ex-President Musharraf
ISLAMABAD ? A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday issued an arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a public prosecutor said. Musharraf, who was president when Bhutto was killed in December 2007 in a gun and suicide bomb attack, is in self-imposed exile in London. He will [...]
04:14 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Egypt's military backs democratic civilian rule
CAIRO ? Egypt's new military rulers told the nation on Saturday they were committed to civilian rule and democracy after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow and said they would respect all treaties, a move to reassure Israel and Washington. Pro-democracy activists in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square, the epicenter of an earthquake of popular protest that unseated Mubarak, [...]
03:28 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Anti-tax activist forgot his past alliances with progressives
An anti-tax activist told an audience at a conservative forum recently that the left on the political spectrum consisted of nothing more than "competing parasites," not "friends and allies" of the right. ?If we say no to tax increases, stop throwing money, they will cheerfully gnaw at the guy sitting next to them,? Grover Norquist, [...]
01:52 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Bill Maher cast doubts on Obama's Christian identity
The liberal host of a popular cable television talk show recently cast doubts on President Barack Obama's espoused Christianity during a discussion on the president's current political leanings. "I think he's a centerist the way he's a Christian," Bill Maher of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher said to a round of laughs Friday. He [...]
01:05 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Six-party talks stall on North Korea's nuclear program
SEOUL ? China does not back efforts by Washington and Seoul to punish North Korea at the United Nations for its uranium enrichment programme and wants six-party talks to deal with the issue, a top South Korean envoy said on Saturday. International disagreement over how to deal with the North's growing nuclear capability comes just [...]
12:16 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Republicans propose cuts to US State Dept, UN
WASHINGTON ? A Republican budget plan would cut billions of dollars in spending on the State Department and foreign programs, including US contributions to the United Nations. The proposed cuts, announced Friday, are part of an overall Republican effort in the House of Representatives to reduce spending by $100 billion over the next seven months. [...]
12:16 PM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Top US military commander to visit Israel, Jordan
WASHINGTON ? The top US military commander will visit Israel and Jordan Sunday and Monday to reaffirm US support following the collapse of the presidency of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen will begin his trip in Amman where he will meet with King Abdullah II and [...]
11:30 AM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Obama stands by vow to cut waste from federal budget
WASHINGTON ? US President Barack Obama said on Saturday he was determined to carry out budget cuts needed to improve America's balance sheet, but insisted on making key investments in the country's future. The president unveils his spending blueprint on Monday, with White House officials saying it will freeze annual domestic spending for the next [...]
11:30 AM on 02/12/2011 Raw Story Bachmann ignores slavery in African-American history again
Black History Month was made for people like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). However, it increasingly looks as though the tea party heroine not only never paid attention to African-American history but seeks to re-write it in her own image. "Other than Native Americans who were here, all of us have the same story," Bachmann told [...]
10:56 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Ron Paul: Government is in the process of failing'
Is he running for US Senate? Is he signaling his bid for US president? Or is he hinting at something deeper within the US political climate? Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) sounded like he was about to hit the campaign trail again during his speech at a right-wing forum Friday, but before he left the podium, [...]
10:07 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Obama: The people of Egypt have spoken'
WASHINGTON ? US President Barack Obama said Friday the people of Egypt had spoken after history moved at a "blinding pace," and called on the now-ruling military to ensure a transition towards "genuine democracy." "The people of Egypt have spoken -- their voices have been heard and Egypt will never be the same," Obama said [...]
06:57 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Kucinich: Obama should face liberal primary challenger in 2012
WASHINGTON ? Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said Thursday that President Barack Obama "absolutely" ought to face a Democratic primary challenge from the left in 2012, predicting it would make him "stronger." "I think primaries can have the opportunity of raising the issues and make the Democratic candidate a stronger candidate," Kucinich told CSPAN's Washington Journal. [...]
04:50 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story I want to meet Mark Zuckerberg and thank him personally,' Google exec tells CNN
Access to the Internet and specifically social networking site Facebook made a huge difference to Egyptians who succeeded on Friday in forcing former President Hosni Mubarak out of power. But how important was it? "First Tunisia, now Egypt," began CNN host Wolf Blitzer. "What's next?" "Ask Facebook," answered Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian activist and the [...]
04:50 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Official sought to keep meeting secret in trooper crash case
When the place and time of a workers' compensation hearing for a former Illinois state trooper was unexpectedly changed, some suspected that something shady had happened. It turns out they were right. E-mails obtained by the Belleville News-Democrat through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act showed that workers' compensation arbitrator Jennifer Teague sought to keep [...]
04:50 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Swiss freeze possible Mubarak assets
ZURICH - Switzerland has frozen assets possibly belonging to Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down as president of Egypt Friday after 30 years of rule, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said. "I can confirm that Switzerland has frozen possible assets of the former Egyptian president with immediate effect," spokesman Lars Knuchel said, declining to specify [...]
02:25 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story All of our gun laws are extremely porous,' Raw reporter tells RT
When Raw Story investigative reporter Brad Jacobson published his report on how 2 million dangerously mentally ill people absconded from America's national gun register, Russia's largest news network took notice. Appearing on Russia Today's The Alyona Show, he told the interviewer that gun laws in the states have become "extremely porous" thanks to a mixture [...]
02:25 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story US Chamber lobbyists map strategies to discredit progressive critics
Report claims Chamber hired firm hacked by 'Anonymous' WASHINGTON ? Lobbyists for the US Chamber of Commerce have been working with firms to develop methods to deceive and discredit the Chamber's most vocal progressive opponents, according to documents obtained by ThinkProgress. Lee Fang of the liberal blog reports that the Chamber and its hired firms [...]
12:50 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Mubarak resigns Egypt's presidency
Egypt's 31-years under President Hosni Mubarak ended to thunderous cries of revolution on Friday, after millions of pro-democracy protesters who'd occupied the country's largest cities for days threatened a "Day of Marytrs" if he did not leave. Mubarak had vowed to remain in the presidency, but after 17 days of intense protest and violent outbursts, [...]
12:50 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story House clears way for PATRIOT Act extension
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday night to clear the road for an extension of controversial provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act. The final vote was 248 to 176, largely along party lines. Just 4 Republicans voted against the extension, while only 15 Democrats voted for it. Under the House bill, the act would [...]
12:01 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story IBM's Watson' to take on Jeopardy! champs
WASHINGTON ? Nearly 15 years after an IBM machine defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, the US computer pioneer is rolling out another device to challenge mankind. Watson, a supercomputer named for IBM founder Thomas Watson, is to take on two human champions of the long-running Jeopardy! television quiz show in two games over three [...]
12:01 PM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Egyptian army backs Mubarak rule as protesters launch Day of Martyrs'
CAIRO ? Egypt's army threw President Hosni Mubarak a lifeline on Friday, endorsing his plan to stay in office until September even as hundreds of thousands of angry protesters took back to the streets. Demonstrators sobbed as they conducted the weekly Muslim prayers in massed ranks in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The preacher choked up as [...]
10:25 AM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story US leads call for concrete' change in Egypt
WASHINGTON ? US President Barack Obama led increasingly hoarse Western calls for "concrete" change in Egypt as President Hosni Mubarak on Friday clung to power after wrong-footing the world by deciding not to quit. Obama issued a strongly-worded statement late Thursday after a day of drama in Cairo in which hopes that Mubarak would step [...]
10:25 AM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Arizona sues US government over illegal immigrants
PHOENIX, Arizona ? Arizona is counter-suing the US government, charging that Washington has failed to protect it from an invasion of illegal immigrants and related violent crime, its governor has said. The lawsuit, which seeks federal compensation, is in response to a federal lawsuit filed by President Barack Obama's administration last year challenging Arizona's enforcement [...]
10:25 AM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Activists on Facebook need protection: senator
WASHINGTON (AFP) ? Facebook has become an important tool for democracy and human rights activists and it needs to do more to protect them, including allowing the use of pseudonyms, a US senator said Thursday. "Recent events in Egypt and Tunisia have again highlighted the significant costs and benefits of social networking technology like Facebook [...]
10:25 AM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story Nokia joins forces with Microsoft to beat competition
HELSINKI ? Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said Friday it was joining forces with US giant Microsoft in a major corporate strategy shake-up that left investors disappointed. The Finnish phone maker said Microsoft's Windows Phone would now serve as its primary smartphone platform in a "broad strategic partnership" destined to regain market share [...]
09:37 AM on 02/11/2011 Raw Story NRA chief blames government failures,' media for Tucson shooting
The head of the National Rifle Association came out swinging Thursday against a wave of gun-control legislation proposed in the wake of the Tucson shooting, saying that government policies and media sensationalism -- rather than lax gun laws -- were to blame for the tragedy. "If Tucson told us anything, it told us this: government [...]
10:10 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story ElBaradei proposes national unity government in Egypt
WASHINGTON ? Leading Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei proposed Thursday that a three-person national unity government succeed President Hosni Mubarak and his deputy, and steer Egypt to democracy. In an interview with Foreign Policy Magazine, ElBaradei said the US-backed transition process led by Vice President Omar Suleiman will fail to take the country to democracy unless [...]
10:10 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story Where's bin Laden?': Ron Paul backers crash Cheney-Rumsfeld reunion
Supporters of libertarian Republican Ron Paul shouted down former Vice President Dick Cheney at a conservative conference Thursday, in a sign of a growing foreign policy rift on the American right. Cheney had appeared on the first day of the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference to introduce Donald Rumsfeld, the former Bush-era defense secretary who [...]
08:22 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story Assange abused my cat, WikiLeaks insider says
BERLIN ? Daniel Domscheit-Berg accuses WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of many things in his book presented Thursday, but perhaps the oddest allegation is that he abused the former insider's cat. "Julian was constantly battling for dominance, even with my tomcat Herr Schmitt," Domscheit-Berg says in his book "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at [...]
07:35 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story Mubarak says he will not resign until September
After a day of rumors fed by major news networks citing officials from the US and Cairo claiming Hosni Mubarak would resign, Egypt's president addressed the nation and reiterated his intent to hold the post until September. "Your demands are lawful and legitimate," he said to protesters in Tahrir Square, as chants of "GET OUT! [...]
05:58 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story GOP aims to slash $1.6 billion in EPA funding
WASHINGTON ? House Republicans on the appropriations committee released a plan Thursday that would eliminate $1.6 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency's budget. The news, as first noted by Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones, is part of a broader GOP assault on the EPA as the Obama administration seeks to use the agency to control [...]
05:58 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story Live video: Conservative Political Action Conference
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05:58 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story London museum goes wild with animal sex show
LONDON ? A museum in London is throwing caution to the wind for an exhibition on sex in the animal kingdom complete with copulating chimps and randy rabbits -- just in time for Valentine's Day. "Sexual Nature" at the Natural History Museum explores the diverse ways in which animals have evolved to procreate, such as [...]
05:27 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story Group plans to beam free Internet across the globe from space
The charity group A Human Right said it was planning to purchase a satellite that would provide free basic Internet access to developing countries around the world. The group, which was founded by 25-year-old Kosta Grammatis, is currently raising money to buy the TerreStar-1, the largest commercial communications satellite ever built. TerreStar, the company that [...]
04:39 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story New jobless claims tumble to 2-year low
WASHINGTON ? The number of new claims for US unemployment insurance tumbled last week to a two-year low, according to official data Thursday, offering hope for the troubled labor market. The Labor Department said initial jobless claims fell to a seasonally adjusted 383,000 in the week ending February 5, down nearly nine percent from the [...]
04:39 PM on 02/10/2011 Raw Story Saudi ministry profusely denies report of King Abdullah's death
Saudi Arabian officials were on a PR offensive Thursday following a report that claimed King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, 86, had suffered a heart attack after speaking to US President Barack Obama about the protests in Egypt. The initial report, which alleged that the incident went unreported due to political sensitivities in the region, [...]
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