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White House open to short-term hike in debt limit
Senate Democrats intend to introduce legislation by mid-week to raise the nation's debt limit without the unrelated conditions Republicans have said they intend to seek, officials said Monday, as the White House signaled it would accept even a brief extension in borrowing authority to prevent an unprecedented default. The emerging ...
Ohio opens case in $100M charity fraud case
The newspaperman who broke stories that helped uncover an alleged $100 million fraud posing as a veterans charity has taken the stand at the defendant's Ohio trial. Jeff Testerman is a retired Tampa Bay Times reporter and was the first witness Monday at the Cleveland trial of the 67-year-old defendant ...
Target of SEAL raid planned attacks in Kenya
The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country's parliament building and the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, according to a Kenyan government intelligence report. The pre-dawn, seaside SEAL raid on Saturday targeted Abdulkadir Mohamed ...
Gov't seeks delay in NSA case over US shutdown
The Justice Department says that because of the shutdown, it wants a federal court to delay a court case in which the government has said it will reveal more secret documents about the National Security Agency's surveillance program. In a new filing with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the government ...
Afghan president says US security deal not ready
Afghanistan's president on Monday ruled out signing a security deal with the United States until disagreements over sovereignty are resolved, but said he will convene a council of elders in one month to help him make a decision on the pending agreement. Hamid Karzai made the pointed remarks about the ...
Shutdown impact: Tourists, homebuyers hit quickly
A government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others. Mail is being delivered. Social Security and Medicare benefits continue to flow. But vacationers are being turned away from national parks and Smithsonian museums, and that's having a ripple effect on those businesses and communities that ...
Civilian Naval Academy faculty return to work
Classes are returning to normal at the U.S. Naval Academy as all civilian faculty return after being furloughed last week due to the partial federal government shutdown. Cmdr. John Schofield, an academy spokesman, said Monday that "everything is back up academically." Last week, the academy had to cancel about 20 ...
Libya wants 'clarification' in al-Qaida leader nab
Libya said Sunday it has asked the United States for "clarifications" regarding the abduction in Tripoli of an al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, adding that Libyan nationals should be tried in their own country. The government's reaction came a day after U.S special ...
Target of US raid in Somalia planned Kenya attacks
A U.S. official says the target of raid by Navy SEALs in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan man named Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir. A Kenyan government intelligence document names him as the coordinator of other planned attacks. The man, also known as Ikrima, was a known operator for the ...
JAL makes first purchase from Airbus, not Boeing
Airbus secured its first-ever order from Japan Airlines on Monday, in a deal that undermines Boeing's long-held dominance of Japan's aviation market. Japan Airlines is to buy 31 A350 planes from the European aircraft manufacturer. The purchase has a list value of 950 billion yen ($9.5 billion) and marks a ...
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