Patricia Maisch says she wrestled a magazine of bullets away from Tucson shooter Jared Loughner to prevent more carnage. She was one of four people credited with stopping the slaughter, incuding Bill Badger, Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zimudie.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Sunday it has begun talks with other militant factions in the Gaza Strip to urge them to stop firing rockets at Israel, attacks that have raised Palestinian fears of a new
Bulldozers began tearing down a former hotel building Sunday to make way for a Jewish housing development in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, pushing ahead with a contentious project that has raised concerns in Washington.
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More than 60 years ago, a top adviser to President Harry S. Truman explained why confrontation with the Republican Congress was inevitable and why winning the battle for public opinion was the key to a successful presidency. The same holds today for President Obama.
Washington, DC - DNC Chairman Tim Kaine issued the following statement on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others at a public event in Arizona today:
American diplomats proposed Japan reduce whaling in exchange for US help cracking down on the anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd, leaked cables reveal
A U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks says Israeli officials charged extremely high fees to allow goods to enter into Gaza. The diplomatic cable from 2006 says American companies complained they had to pay fees up to 75 times higher than normal.
The White House has ordered the Pentagon to squeeze almost all growth from its spending over the next five years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.