Attorney General Eric Holder showed no sign of backing down Wednesday in his escalating battle with House Republicans over his handling of the fallout from the Fast and Furious gun-smuggling investigation. He denounced a House committee’s party-line vote to hold him in contempt of Congress as “divisive,” “political theater,” and “entirely unnecessary.” In a defiant statement
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The Harvard researcher behind a recent study correlating 2008 election results with racially charged Google searches neglected to disclose ties to a former senior member of the Obama administration, The Daily Caller has learned. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economics Ph.D. candidate, lists on his C.V. — publicly available through his website — that he was the
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The Pentagon on Tuesday defended plans to buy attack helicoptersfrom a Russian arms firm for the Afghan government even though the same company has supplied weapons to Syria’s regime. US senators have voiced dismay at the deal with Rosoboronexport, but defense officials said the contract with the firm was the only way to bolster Afghanistan’s fleet of Russian-made choppers. “We’re not
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The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and warned that the Arab country’s 15-month conflict could become even deadlier. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. was “concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from
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The concerns come as regime helicopters fired on rebel stronghold towns and raging violence killed more than 100 people on Monday. It also follows the release of a UN report revealing how the Syrian army uses kids as “human shields”. Government helicopter gunships strafed rebel positions in Al Heffa, as well as the opposition stronghold
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The most popular puck around here is no longer Wolfgang. Our hottest skaters are no longer in bikinis. Heaven has frozen over. The Kings are 2012 Stanley Cupchampions. The first title in franchise history was earned on a monumental Monday in which a team’s skittishness became greatness while a city’s icy stare melted into tearful slush.
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The scratching of Triple Crown contender “I’ll Have Another” from the Belmont wasn’t the only disappointing headline this week; so too was the perception that Fed chief Ben Bernanke may have scratched his easy-money policy from his tip sheet between now and the election. Investors were hoping that the world’s most powerful central banker would provide Wall
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Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime fall. “The moment the regime there falls, we’ll be following these things, but at the end of the day it is very difficult to predict what will happen there,” Barak told a group of youths performing national service. One does not need intelligence reports or analyses to see what is going
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