By Javier Blas and Jack Farchy in London, Courtney Weaver in Moscow and Simon Mundy in Johannesburg

Two days of unrest in Maputo, Mozambique, left seven people dead and 280 injured after the government decided to raise bread prices by 30%

By SALMAN MASOOD

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A blast ripped through a Shiite protest, the second such attack in three days, in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, police and rescue officials said.

The Obama administration is mulling a raft of emergency fixes to stimulate the economy before the midterms, including an extension of the research and development tax credit and new infrastructure spending, according to several people familiar with the situation.Administration officials have been huddling almost continuously during the past week, brainstorming for ideas that would boost employment without hiking the massive federal deficit — with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner rushing to the West Wing for further consultations late Thursday. Read more »

Mona Charen

Hamas sent a greeting card to the quintet of leaders meeting in Washington, D.C., this week to initiate negotiations about a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. In a well-planned ambush, they killed four Israeli civilians near the city of Hebron, two men and two women (one nine months pregnant), creating seven orphans. The murderers escaped, and may perhaps have videotaped the atrocity Read more »

By Peter J. Smith
 

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Justice Department is requesting a federal judge stay his order stopping the National Institute of Health’s embryo-destroying stem-cell research pending an appeal, saying that cutting off the money to scientists would harm their research efforts.
 
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled last week that embryonic stem cell research projects funded by the NIH violate the Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal dollars from going to research that destroys human embryos.

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Friday, September 03, 2010
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

By Fred Lucas | CNSNews

On Jan. 7, 2009, less than two weeks before Barack Obama was sworn in as president, a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report indicated that up until that date there had been 18 confirmed and 43 suspected cases of detainees who had been released from the Guantanamo Bay prison and who had returned to terrorism. Read more »

UVA’s Larry Sabato also sees Republicans gaining eight governorships in his crystal ball

By Paul Bedard | U.S. News & World Report

Typically cautious Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, is rocking the political world with a new “Crystal Ball” prediction: The GOP will win the House, making Ohio’s John Boehner speaker, might get a 50-50 split in the Senate, Read more »

U.S. Economy Lost 54,000 Jobs in August; Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.6%

By Tom Barkley and Victoria McGrane | The Wall St. Journal

Job losses continued to mount in the U.S. economy last month, though at a more modest pace than expected, putting further pressure on policy makers to take action to spur growth and employment.

Nonfarm payrolls fell by 54,000 last month Read more »

Richard Bernstein

In recent American history three presidents, Republicans Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush—and Democrat icon John Fitzgerald Kennedy—all lowered taxes in response to economic recessions. In all three cases, more money flowed into federal coffers than expected, and all three recessions ended. Read more »

The U.S. Justice Department filed suit Thursday against Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio in an effort to force the Arizona lawman to turn over records that the government says may prove a pattern of discrimination. Arpaio has refused the demands for over a year saying that the department has failed to be specific in its document requests. Arpaio is one of over a dozen Arizona sheriffs being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union over their attempts to stop the invasion of their state by Mexican lawbreakers.