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The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), left, and the guided-missile cruiser USS Cape St. George (CG 71) transit the Strait of Hormuz, 1 May, 2012.

US Is Ready for Attack on Iran If Need Be, Says Ambassador to Israel
ABC News

The United States is militarily ready to carry out a strike on Iran to stop it from obtaining a nuclear weapon if international pressure fails, American ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said to an Israeli audience this week. The Obama administration has repeatedly insisted that "all options are on the table" to deal with an Iranian nuclear...
photo: US Navy / MCS3 Alex R. Forster

Putin-Obama Mutual Snubs Spell ‘Reset’ Crisis – Analysts

President Barack Obama waits with Vice President Joe Biden before attending the STOCK Act signing event in the Hold Room of the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) of the White House, April 4, 2012.

Novosti

The current diplomatic contretemps between Russia and the United States is a crisis for the reset policy in bilateral relations, which are still based on Cold War-era distrust, Russian analysts said. “Neither side is attempting sincere...
photo: White House / Pete Souza

Obama raises $44M for campaign, Dems in April

President Barack Obama speaks at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 15, 2012, during a ceremony honoring the 2011 Major League Soccer champion LA Galaxy soccer team.

Nashville Tennessean

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as he faces a unifying Republican effort around Mitt Romney for the White House. Obamas April fundraising haul fell short of...
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster

Obama inserts himself into past president's bios on White House website

President Barack Obama walks from Marine One across the South Lawn to the White House, Monday, May 14, 2012, in Washington, as he returns from New York.

The Examiner

President Obama has inserted himself into history by adding his name to the past president’s bios on the White House website. Some of the greater accomplishments of past president’s now sound like joint effort together with President Obama. Talk...
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster

China dissident tells US of abuse of family

In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng sits in a chair at the U.S. embassy before he left for a hospital in Beijing, Wednesday, May 2, 2012.

Yahoo Daily News

A dissident at the center of a standoff between Beijing and Washington accused Chinese authorities of a pattern of abuse against his family as he again took his case to US lawmakers. Chen Guangcheng, a blind self-taught lawyer who last month...
photo: AP / U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO

Jerry Brown On California's Budget Deficit: 'Cutting Alone Really Doesn't Do It'

Gov. Jerry Brown responds to a question while talking with reporters during a news conference held in his Capitol office in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. Later in the day Brown will meet with the mayors of several of the state's largest cities to discuss his proposal to eliminate redevelopment agencies to help solve the budget deficit.

Huffington Post

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Jerry Brown called on state lawmakers to embrace austere cuts and urged voters to approve tax hikes in outlining a revised budget. Brown on Monday proposed $8.3 billion in cuts across education, health care and...
photo: AP / Rich Pedroncelli

Strauss-Kahn Countersues NY Hotel Maid for $1M

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, surrounded by reporters, leaves a polling station for the Socialist Party's primary vote, in Sarcelles, next to Paris, Sunday Oct. 16, 2011.

The New York Times

NEW YORK (AP) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn is filing a $1 million countersuit against the New York City hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, saying she seriously damaged his reputation with what he calls a bogus allegation. Connect With Us...
photo: AP / Yoan Valat

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