| 1 employee hurt in Ohio veterans hospital shooting Posted: 05 May 2014 03:27 PM PDT  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A Veterans Affairs hospital housekeeping employee and a retired worker were struggling over a gun in a break room Monday when the firearm went off, leading to the employee's shooting and the retiree's arrest, police said.
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| Rutgers names commencement speaker after Condoleezza Rice withdraws Posted: 05 May 2014 03:11 PM PDT  Two days after former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice backed out of delivering this year's commencement address at New Jersey's Rutgers University, the school said on Monday that former state Governor Thomas Kean would speak in her place. The selection of Rice, who was a key U.S. foreign policy adviser to President George W. Bush and a leading hawk in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war, prompted protests by students and faculty. The commencement will be held on May 18. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Kean was named co-chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, known as the "9/11 Commission." "Gov. Kean's career as a public servant, educator and statesman speaks to the civility, integrity and vision that we hope will guide our graduates as they pursue their careers or further their studies," Rutgers President Robert Barchi said in a statement.
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| Here's Your Crucial Reminder That Lara Logan Has Breasts Posted: 05 May 2014 12:06 PM PDT  Joe Hagan's new New York profile of 60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan is literally called "Benghazi and the Bombshell." In it, Hagan attempts to determine whether Logan is "too toxic" to return to the show after her faulty Benghazi report, but most of the time, it seems like he's trying to figure out whether she's too hot. CBS executives have said that Logan will eventually return from her leave of absence, despite the fact that some of her colleagues want her fired. The Time Lara Logan Did Not Know How Hot She Was Logan often flouted traditional Islamic dress codes: At an Afghan election rally for Hamid Karzai, Logan wore blue jeans and a white T-shirt in the makeshift press cordon, which was surrounded by mobs of men.
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| House GOP budget spares weapons, military benefits Posted: 05 May 2014 12:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans spare aircraft, bases and personnel benefits from defense budget cuts by chipping away at money the Pentagon spends in preparing the military for war. |
| 1 employee hurt in Ohio VA hospital shooting Posted: 05 May 2014 12:01 PM PDT DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A Veterans Affairs hospital employee and a retired worker were struggling over a gun in an employee break room Monday when the firearm went off, leading to the employee's shooting and the retiree's arrest, police said. |
| Condi Backs Out Of Rutgers Commencement Posted: 05 May 2014 11:40 AM PDT  After protests by students and faculty, former Secretary of State under George W. Bush announced she will not be giving the Rutgers University commencement speech.
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| UN: Spread of polio now a world health emergency Posted: 05 May 2014 11:29 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — For the first time ever, the World Health Organization on Monday declared the spread of polio an international public health emergency that could grow in the next few months and unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate the crippling disease.
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| Suspect in custody after Ohio VA hospital shooting Posted: 05 May 2014 11:16 AM PDT DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A shooting at a Veterans Affairs hospital on Monday left one person with a minor injury and a suspect in police custody, according to a Dayton city official. |
| Better Job Prospects for Nation’s Younger Veterans Posted: 05 May 2014 11:01 AM PDT  Job prospects for veterans are looking up as their unemployment rate goes down. The jobless rate for vets who served in Iraq and Afghanistan fell to 6.8 percent last month, the lowest level since November 2008, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
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| The Non-Profit That Fleeced Taxpayers for Years Posted: 05 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT U.S. nation building and humanitarian assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan has been an enormously costly and frequently futile exercise over the past decade. For example, the State Department spent $4 billion to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan. More than half of that went to a single company, DynCorp, for programs to train and equip the Afghan National Police and counter-narcotics forces and to provide bodyguards for Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai. A recent audit by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR) concluded that precious little was achieved for all that spending, and that in the case of narcotics, things actually got worse, with opium production reaching record highs in 2013. |
| Polio Resurgence Prompts International Health Emergency Posted: 05 May 2014 10:29 AM PDT  The rapid spread of polio in the conflict zones of Pakistan, Syria, and Cameroon has prompted the World Health Organization to declare an international health emergency. The WHO urged the countries to contain the virus by vaccinating or re-vaccinating children, and said that adult travelers should carry government-approved documents showing proof of vaccination. At the end of 2013, 60 percent of polio cases were the result of the international spread of the virus, according to the WHO.
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| Bombing, shootings kill 5 people in Iraq Posted: 05 May 2014 09:25 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say a car bomb attack and shootings have killed five people in and north of the capital. |
| Presidential checklist: preparations in motion Posted: 05 May 2014 09:13 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest prep work for a presidential campaign, Rand Paul is conspicuously courting moderate and establishment Republicans while Ted Cruz keeps up a travel schedule that has 2016 written all over it.
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| Pakistan's failings to fight polio spark global emergency response Posted: 05 May 2014 08:28 AM PDT  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Pakistan's failure to stem the spread of polio triggered global emergency health measures on Monday, with the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending all residents must show proof of vaccination before they can leave the country. The emergency measures also apply to Syria and Cameroon, which along with Pakistan are seen as posing the greatest risk of exporting the crippling virus and undermining a U.N. plan to eradicate it by 2018. Pakistan is in the spotlight as the only country with endemic polio that saw cases rise last year. The virus has recently spread to Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel and Syria, and has been found in sewage in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and greater Cairo, said WHO assistant director general Bruce Aylward.
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| UN: Spread of polio now an world health emergency Posted: 05 May 2014 04:19 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease. |
| Persistent Saudi-U.S. differences hurt Syria strategy Posted: 05 May 2014 03:08 AM PDT  By Yara Bayoumy and Angus McDowall DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Differences between the United States and Saudi Arabia over Middle East policy persist, despite attempts to shore up their old alliance, and may prove calamitous for Syrian rebels. Although there is evidence that some American weapons are starting to find their way to more moderate groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, disagreements over what to supply, and to whom, have hindered the fight. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been funding the rebels for years now, arguing that the war in Syria is a battle for the future of the Middle East, pitting pro-Western forces against Riyadh's main enemy Iran and Islamist militants. However, while the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama also blames Assad for the violence and wants him to leave power, it sees the conflict very differently.
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| Iraq unrest 'kills nine' as votes are counted Posted: 04 May 2014 05:00 PM PDT  Attacks and shelling in Baghdad and northern and western Iraq killed nine people on Monday, officials said, as electoral authorities counted ballot papers from last week's general election. In Fallujah, just a short drive west of Baghdad, shelling in various parts of the city killed four people and wounded another, according to Dr Ahmed Shami, chief medic at the main hospital. Elsewhere on Monday, two men were shot dead in Baghdad, and a car bomb near a restaurant north of the capital in the ethnically mixed town of Tuz Khurmatu killed at least three soldiers.
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