‘American Taliban’ says prison restricts prayer

John Walker Lindh, who is serving a 20-year sentence for aiding the Taliban, testified in federal court Monday in Indianapolis in an attempt to overturn a prison ban that he says severely restricts Muslim prayer. Lindh spent more than two hours on the witness stand in a lawsuit he filed against the warden and the federal […]

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Mitt Romney’s Fund-raising Flurry Post Supreme Court Ruling Was Announced

        After Thursday’s supreme court ruling, stating that President Obama’s healthcare law did not, in-fact violate the Constitution, Mitt Romney’s campaign receives a flood of donations. However, both presidential campaigns are citing fund-raising spikes following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform laws. Obama’s campaign called the other side’s […]

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Former Harvard Professor of President Obama Say’s it Would be Detrimental to Re-Elect the Incumbent

  A former professor of Barack Obama, Roberto Unger,  has turned against his one-time student and publicly urged voters not to re-elect him and posted  a video on YouTube detailing the reasons why.   Throughout the last election, the prominent Brazilian politician was on the president’s speed dial, but now is urging American voters to turn away from the […]

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Affluent Coastal Town Says Obama Administration Should Pay for Their Stay While on the Campaign Road.

      MSN News reports that Southern California Beach town, Newport Beach wants the Obama Campaign to pay for the added security measures the town provided for the presidential visit. City manager Dave Kift says that since the presidential visit was not official government business, but a gathering to rally support for the upcoming election, […]

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Turning Point Looms for the U.S. in Afghanistan

Monday marks the end of August, a month with both good and bad news out of Afghanistan — and the approach of a key turning point. Civilian casualties caused by Western attacks have fallen dramatically under a new edict from General Stanley McChrystal barring air strikes that risk innocent deaths . That’s designed to show the Afghan people that the U.S

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Florida man to plead guilty to credit-card data theft

A Miami, Florida, man indicted earlier this month in the largest case of identity theft in U.S. history has agreed to plead guilty to 19 felony counts for his role in another massive credit-card data breach, according to a court document. The following are excerpts from the letter as read by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick at Kennedy’s private burial service Saturday in Arlington National Cemetery: “Most Holy Father, I asked President Obama to personally hand-deliver this letter to you.

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Ted Kennedy called a man of quiet faith

Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy didn’t wear his faith on his sleeve, but those close to him say Catholicism was much more than an ethnic and cultural identity. Kennedy’s family chose Boston’s Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, also known as the Mission Church, for his funeral Mass on Saturday.

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Ted Kennedy’s family, friends prepare for memorial

Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friends and family prepared for a memorial service at the JFK Presidential Library on Friday as mourners from all walks of life continued their own personal farewells. Numerous political heavyweights are expected to speak at the “celebration of life” service, including Vice President Joe Biden, Connecticut Sen.

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