Targeting Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital “is what this campaign is going to be about,” he says. (read the story…)
How badly are things going in Afghanistan? The top U.S. and NATO commander, Gen. John Allen, told reporters it was “good news” that Afghan authorities had arrested 160 people in the last few months for plotting so-called “green-on-blue” attacks by Afghan security forces on their NATO-led international partners. (read the story…)
President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged “risks” in his decision to withdraw U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 but said war-weary Americans can’t wait for that strife-torn country to be “perfect.” “I don’t think that there is ever going to be an optimal point where we say, this is all...
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels delivered his most forceful rejection of the vice presidential post yet, saying he would “disconnect the phone” if he found out that Romney was considering him for the job. (read the story…)
A New Jersey judge sentenced a former Rutgers student to 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate kissing another man. Dharun Ravi, 20, was convicted on two second-degree bias intimidation charges in a case that garnered national headlines because his roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide after the spying....
President Barack Obama spoke briefly Monday with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of a NATO summit as the uneasy allies looked to drain the poison from their wounded relations. (read the story…)
