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Gadhafi Steps Up Airstrikes; West Weighs Rebels' Plea for No-Fly Zone
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsWestern allies are weighing military options against Libya, including a no-fly zone over the country, after forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi unleashed a weekend of furious air assaults against rebels fighting his regime. At the White House today, President Barack Obama warned that Gadhafi's supporters "will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place," The Associated Press reported. "We've got NATO consulting in Brussels around a wide range of potential options, including potential military options, in response to the violence that continues to take place in Libya," ...
Mitch McConnell: Obama Not Serious About Entitlements Reform
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that "this is the perfect time to tackle entitlement reform" because both political parties now share power – and responsibility – in Washington, but he said he does not think President Obama is serious about doing so. "This is the perfect time to tackle entitlement reform. ... We have divided government," McConnell said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "That is, one party doesn't control the entire government. That's the time to do big things. Remember when Reagan and Tip O'Neill fixed Social Security. Remember when Clinton and a ...
Report: Accused Killer Raymond Davis Was CIA Spy in Pakistan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsIt started out suspiciously: An all-American-looking man in a plaid shirt and jeans pulled a Glock pistol on two motorcyclists last month in Pakistan, police said, shooting them dead in the street in broad daylight. Initial reports had Raymond Davis firing his gun in self-defense during a robbery attempt. But then police searched his car and found multiple guns, cell phones, infrared lights and survival gear. Meanwhile, a U.S. diplomatic car racing to the scene crashed and killed another Pakistani man en route. Then the widow of one of the men committed suicide. Hamza Ahmed, ...
Sen. Kerry Upbeat After Talks on Pakistan Detention
By not in system - AOL NewsISLAMABAD -- U.S. Sen. John Kerry said he is hopeful that Washington and Islamabad can make progress "in the next few days" toward resolving the bitter dispute over an American embassy worker detained in Pakistan. Kerry, who rushed to Pakistan to try to prevent a diplomatic meltdown over the continued detention of American Raymond Davis, sounded upbeat Wednesday at the end of two days of meetings with senior Pakistani government officials and opposition powerbrokers. The U.S. says Davis shot two Pakistanis in self-defense as they tried to rob him Jan. 27, and that his detention is illegal ...
Pakistan Softens on Issue of American's Immunity
By not in system - AOL NewsISLAMABAD -- Pakistan will tell a court that most of its legal experts believe a detained American has diplomatic immunity, but will leave it to a judge to rule on his status, an official said Tuesday - a sign that Islamabad is trying to give the U.S. an opening to free the man while avoiding domestic backlash. Raymond Allen Davis has been held by Pakistani authorities since he fatally shot two Pakistanis in the eastern city of Lahore on Jan. 27, and his case has become a bitter point of contention between Washington and Islamabad, two countries whose relationship is considered key to ending ...
Super Bowl XLV: Is Everything Bigger and Better in Dallas?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIf there's a point at which sports and money, politics and high living intersect, it is the Super Bowl. Presidents, governors, mayors, glad-handers and boosters -- all get drawn into the whirlwind of the Super Bowl circus. This year is no different. And if there's one place where sports and politics, money and high living mix and match, it is Dallas, which for the first time ever is hosting the big game. For one thing, there's George W. Bush, the former president and Texas Rangers owner who makes his home in Dallas. Bush is building a presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist ...
John Kerry: Egypt's Mubarak Must 'Step Aside Gracefully'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySen. John Kerry, a leading Capitol Hill spokesman on foreign policy, has gone a step beyond the Obama administration and called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign as a way of bringing an end to the chaos shaking the country. Mubarak "must accept that the stability of his country hinges on his willingness to step aside gracefully to make way for a new political structure," Kerry said in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday. "One of the toughest jobs that a leader under siege can perform is to engineer a peaceful transition." Related Stories ElBaradei Says U.S. ...
John Kerry Calls for Bipartisanship in Wake of Shootings, but Criticizes GOP Resistance
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyUrging Congress to put an end to divisive rhetoric in the aftermath of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Tuesday made the case for a re-energized, bipartisan focus on the nation's infrastructure, education system and clean energy technologies. He also advocated for a change in the use of the congressional filibuster -- currently being debated in the Senate -- saying, "We have reached the point where the filibuster is being invoked by the minority not necessarily because of a difference over policy, but as a political tool to undermine the presidency." Kerry ...
Elizabeth Edwards Leaves John Edwards Out of Will, Gives Everything to Kids
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe late Elizabeth Edwards willed everything she owned to her three children, leaving her estranged, well-to-do husband, former Sen. John Edwards, without so much as a mention. Edwards, who died of breast cancer on Dec. 7, named her oldest daughter, Catherine, 28, as executor, CNN reported. "All of my furniture, furnishings, households goods, jewelry, china, silverware and personal effects and any automobiles . . . to be divided among them," she wrote in a document dated Dec. 1. Besides Catherine, the will also names daughter Emma, 12, and son John, 10. A copy was published online by "Inside ...
START Treaty Up for Cliffhanger Vote in Senate
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith the clock running out on the lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate expects to begin voting Tuesday on ratification of the Strategic Arms Nuclear Reduction Treaty, the arms-reduction pact signed in Prague by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April. Proponents of the bill will need 60 votes to end debate on the measure on Tuesday, followed by a two-thirds majority, likely 67 votes, to ratify the treaty later in the week. The issue has become an increasingly contentious one, as Democrats have pushed Republicans to approve the treaty without significant changes, ...
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