Articles in the World Politics Category
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Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has undergone treatment for prostate cancer.
A spokesman for Petraeus says the general was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer in February. Petraeus underwent two months of radiation treatment at Walter R... read more
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President Barack Obama plans to address the nation’s largest gay rights group this weekend, a person familiar with his schedule said Monday, trying to mollify an uneasy Democratic constituency.
Obama plans to address Saturday’s Human Rights Campaign fundraising dinner gala, said t... read more
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A protester threw a shoe at IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn but missed during a conference at an Istanbul university Thursday.
The man threw his white sports shoe and ran toward the speakers platform shouting “IMF get out,” but he was blocked by security guards.
Strauss... read more
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The Secret Service has found the mastermind behind the “Should Obama Be Killed?” Facebook poll-and it turns out to be a kid.
After a chat wit... read more
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Sarah Palin’s 432 page memoir isn’t set to be released for more than seven weeks, but the highly anticipated tell-all has already shot to No. 1 on Barnes and Nobles’ Web site, supplanting new releases from bestselling authors Dan Brown and Mitch Albom.
The forthcoming book h... read more
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A former U.S. Democratic Party fundraiser whose 2007 arrest prompted Hillary Clinton to return $850,000 in campaign contributions was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison on Tuesday.
Hong Kong-born Norman Hsu, 58, was convicted in May by a jury in federal court in New York of violating e... read more
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The Secret Service is investigating the circumstances surrounding an eye-opening Facebook poll that asked whether Obama should be assassinated, a Secret Service spokesman confirmed.
The poll, which has already been taken down, offered four possible answers to the question “should obam... read more
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An irate Elizabeth Edwards is taking borderline-anonymous shots at her husband’s former mistress in blog comments.
The disgraced ex-senator’s wife lambastes Rielle Hunder using the pseudonym “Cherubim”—which makes it easy for insiders to guess her identity. “It... read more
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Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has been indicted on a charge of trying to detonate bombs in the United States.
Zazi is to appear in court in Denver on a count of lying to terrorism investigators. The new charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction was filed Thursday in New York.read more
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Paul G. Kirk Jr., the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will replace the late Ted Kennedy in the Senate until a special election is held in January, sources told FOX News.
But a constitutional dispute is delaying final passage of a bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name ... read more
