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Omar Sharif Says Mubarak Should Go
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsEven Doctor Zhivago wants Egypt's president to resign. Egypt's most famous actor, Omar Sharif, told a French radio station today that President Hosni Mubarak "should have resigned." His comments come amid weeklong protests against Mubarak's generation-long autocratic rule. "Given that the entire Egyptian people don't want him and he's been in power for 30 years, that's enough," Sharif, 78, said by telephone from his home in Cairo. He was speaking to France Inter radio, and the report was picked up by Reuters. Andrew H Walker / Getty Images Actor Omar Sharif, seen here in December ...
Every Cop in Mexican Town Quits After Station Attack
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- The entire 14-man police force in a northern Mexican town has resigned en masse after their station came under fire from suspected drug traffickers. The police headquarters in Los Ramones, a rural town about 40 miles east of Monterrey, is pockmarked with bullet holes after gunmen drove up to the station and unleashed a torrent of automatic weapons fire that also included barrages from grenade launchers. More than 1,000 bullet casings littered a yard where local officials had held a ceremony to inaugurate the new station just three days earlier. No one was injured, but six ...
BP Boss Tony Hayward Expected to Quit Soon
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(July 25) -- Tony Hayward is expected to step down as BP CEO in the next few days, according to numerous media reports. And despite being repeatedly criticized over his poor handling of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the bumbling oil boss is still likely to pocket a $1.6 million payoff when he hands in his resignation. The BBC this morning reported that the CEO was currently negotiating the terms of his exit with the company's directors. Managing director Bob Dudley, the American currently in charge of the Gulf clean-up operation, is widely tipped to take over his post. A BP spokesman told the ...
General Stanley McChrystal Tenders Resignation
By David Knowles - Politics DailyCiting an unnamed source, Time magazine's Joe Klein reported on CNN that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, has officially offered his resignation to President Barack Obama. CBS News later confirmed that McChrystal offered Obama a letter of resignation, and ABC's Jake Tapper reports that Obama will meet with McChrystal on Wednesday before deciding the general's fate. McChrystal finds himself in hot water after criticizing Obama and several members of his administration in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine over their handling of the Afghan war ...
Will the Pope Resign? It Wouldn't Be Easy, and May Not Be Possible
By David Gibson - Politics DailyContinuing revelations about cases of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy are raising more questions about what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, did -- or did not do -- about them, both as Archbishop of Munich (1977-1982) and for nearly 24 years as the Vatican's chief guardian of doctrine. That has left many wondering if this is the Catholic Church's version of Watergate -- and if it could end the same way. (Richard Nixon, raised a Quaker, once mused that he'd have made a good pope, and as things worked out for him, you could understand that wish.) As things stand now, and under ...
Democrats Blast Massa Conspiracy Theory: 'Absurd,' 'Totally Untrue'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland did not mince words Tuesday when he denied Eric Massa's accusations that Hoyer and other Democrats forced him from the House because he had planned to vote against health care reform. "That's absurd. That's absolutely untrue," Hoyer said. "Definitively untrue." During an interview on a western New York radio station Sunday, Massa, a former Democratic congressman from New York, defended himself against rumors of sexual misconduct and lashed out at Hoyer and other Hill leaders. "Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill," he said on ...
White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers Resigning
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 26) - White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers will step down next month and be replaced by Julianna Smoot, the chief fundraiser for the Obama presidential campaign, I've learned. I talked with Rogers exclusively on Friday about her departure from the White House. Close to President Obama and First Lady Michelle, she was one of the first appointees of the Obama administration. She leaves after presiding over 330 events in the White House and carrying out the Obamas' vision of creating more inclusive events that drew in people who would not otherwise be invited to the White House. ...
Facing a Long Shot Re-election Bid, Sen. Chris Dodd Folds His Cards
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThere are sad and humiliating ways to end a career in the United States Senate – and liberal Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd knows them too well through bitter family experience. As the white-thatched Dodd stood in front of his home in East Haddam, Conn., Wednesday afternoon to announce "I will not be a candidate for re-election," the five-term senator undoubtedly remembered his father's tarnished legacy. ...
Obama Leaving Trinity
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyErick Erickson at Redstate.com blogs that CNN is reporting Senator Obama will be giving up his membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ. Trinity, of course, is the church formerly helmed by Jeremiah Wright, the controversial pastor of YouTube.com fame who preached that the U.S. Government was distributing AIDS as part of a secret American genocide. No doubt the most recent flare-up featuring a fired-up Father Pfleger was the final straw. Even Obama, who is handled rather delicately in the press, would have trouble explaining continued membership in the church when they're ...
Castro Resigns, Musharraf's Party Ousted
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyIt was a bad day for petty tyrants. Following half of a decade as a communist dictator and constant thorn in the side of the United States, Cuban leader Fidel Castro has announced he will resign. The announcement was met with subtle indifference among Cubans, and hopeful applause from the U.S. "I believe that the change from Fidel Castro ought to begin a period of a democratic transition," stated President Bush. However, as Castro's brother Raul (who has been ruling in his stead since mid-2006) is presumed to ascend as the next president, significant change is highly unlikely. As Mark Impomeni ...
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