The Washington Examiner – AP Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has warned of a war between Khartoum and South Sudan because their failure to settle a dispute over an oil export deal. Al-Bashir told Blue Nile TV on Friday that war “is a possibility” because of escalating tensions with Juba over the spat. But he said [...]

The Washington Examiner – AP Sen. Joe Haynes announced Friday that he will not seek re-election in 2012, saying a newly redrawn district by Republicans wasn’t necessarily a factor in his decision. However, the Goodlettsville Democrat, who has served in the Senate for 28 years, did note what he called an “interesting symmetry” in the [...]

The Washington Examiner – Philip Klein Congressional Budget Office bean counters are taking a fresh look at President Obama’s national health care law, and will have updated figures on key provisions in March, director Doug Elmendorf testified this week in Congress. Though he stopped short of saying there would be a full re-scoring of the [...]

The Telegraph – Barney Henderson Taliban leader Mullah Omar purportedly sent a letter to President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in peace talks, US officials have claimed. The unsigned letter from the one-eyed preacher was passed through a Taliban intermediary in July and was considered authentic by current and former US officials. “As [...]

World Net Daily – Jerome R Corsi A former employee of one of the world’s largest international banks has provided WND with more than 1,000 pages of documents, including customer account ledgers for dozens of companies through which the financial institution was laundering money each month, according to the whistleblower. “I found many accounts through [...]

World Net Daily – Bob Unruh A team of attorneys from the American Freedom Law Center today asked a court in New York for a preliminary injunction that would uphold the principle of free speech in the advertisements on the transit authority’s facilities. A lawsuit had been filed last fall over the refusal by the New York [...]

abc NEWS – Richard Esposito Israeli facilities in North America — and around the world — are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase. “We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase … on both [...]

Bloomberg – Jonathan Stearns Greece’s fight to win its second international bailout may only open a new chapter in its struggle to remain in the euro area. The rescue plan, which European officials and Greek creditors say may be wrapped up in coming days, includes a loss of more than 70 percent for bondholders in [...]

cnsnews.com – Patrick Burke The Republican presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told CNSNews.com today that if elected Romney will rescind in its entirety a regulation finalized last month by the Obama administration that requires all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that cause [...]

Reuters – Timothy Heritage It took several minutes and a woolly hat to resolve the latest differences among the loose alliance of Russian opposition groups challenging Vladimir Putin’s 12-year rule. Unable to agree on the order of a protest march through Moscow on Saturday, the organizers, gathered round a few tables shoved together in a [...]

BBC Prime Minister David Cameron will make an official visit to the US next month, the White House has said. Mr Cameron and his wife Samantha will be in the US on 13-14 March. A spokesman said President Barack Obama would welcome Mr Cameron to “highlight the fundamental importance of the US-UK special relationship”. The [...]

BBC At least 37 people have been killed in South Sudan during a shoot-out at a peace meeting aimed at ending recent violence, officials said. Officials from three states and the UN had met for talks in the remote town of Mayendit in Unity state in an effort to reduce inter-ethnic tensions. The talks were [...]

The Washington Times – Paige Winfield Ending a week that began with consensus but fractured into contention, the Senate voted Thursday to strengthen insider-trading bans for its members, and in the process agreed to ban bonuses for Fannie Mae and Freddie Macexecutives. After spending the afternoon voting on a score of amendments that had hampered negotiations earlier in the week, [...]

The Washington Times – Jeffrey T Kuhner Conservatives are asking a reasonable question: Will a Mitt Romney candidacy turn into another debacle like Sen. John McCain’s in 2008? The Arizona maverick was said to be the most “electable” of the Republican nominees. ManyGOP voters held their noses and supported Mr. McCain. Yet he was defeated – convincingly – [...]

The Washington Examiner A petulant, angry, and defiant Attorney General Eric Holder refused yesterday to take any responsibility for the growing scandal surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the ill-conceived and incompetently managed program in which federal agents allowed thousands of guns to be purchased in the United States by known suppliers to Mexican drug cartels. [...]

The Telegraph The Islamist secured 34 seats in the 50-member parliament, results showed today. All four of the female MPs who served in the previous parliament lost their seats. Liberals, who had five seats in the previous parliament, now have just two. Voters punished pro-government MPs during Thursday’s parliamentary election, reducing them to a small [...]

The Telegraph - Angela Monaghan An independent Scotland would be heavily indebted and at increased risk of default, placing greater restrictions on economic and fiscal policy, a think tank has warned. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research said Scotland would have no insurance from fiscal risk sharing with the UK if it voted for [...]

The Telegraph Argentina has accused David Cameron’s government of fanning the row over the Falklands Islands in an attempt to distract the British public from high unemployment. The moves “have to do with British domestic politics, with the high unemployment,” said Vice President Amado Boudou yesterday. “This is an attempt to cover for a government [...]

theblaze.com – Madeleine Morgenstern The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity has reversed its decision to halt fundingof breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood, the organization announced Friday. In a statement, Komen for the Cure Founder and CEO Nancy Brinker apologized for “recent decisions” and said the organization would continue to fund Planned Parenthood. [...]

cnsnews.com – Thomas Cloud House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) vowed today that she will join with the Obama administration in standing up against the Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic individuals to buy, and Catholic institutions to provide, health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those [...]

CNN The supreme leader of Iran issued a blunt warning Friday that war would be detrimental to the United States — and that Iran is ready to help anyone who confronts “cancerous” Israel. “You see every now and then in this way they say that all options are on the table. That means even the [...]

CNN Syrian army and security officers detained and tortured children with impunity during the past year, a rights group said in a report Friday, as it urged the United Nations to take action. The Human Rights Watch report comes as the U.N. Security Council considers a draft resolution intended to pressure Syria to end its months-long crackdown [...]

BBC At least two people have been killed in the latest unrest in the Egyptian capital Cairo, amid continuing anger over 74 deaths after a football match in Port Said on Wednesday. Many Egyptians blame the authorities for failing to protect fans. A demonstrator and a soldier died on Friday as clashes continued outside the [...]

BBC Russia’s deputy foreign minister says his country “cannot support” a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria. According to the Interfax news agency, Gennady Gatilov said that despite changes that took some of its concerns into account, Russia could not support the text in its current form. “This is not enough for us,” [...]

BBC At least five people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in an attack on a police station in western Colombia. The violence in Villa Rica comes a day after 11 people were killed in an explosion in Tumaco, in the south. Police blamed that attack on the left-wing rebel group, the [...]

CNN - Annalyn Censky  The recovery remains “frustrating slow” in the United States, and now Europe’s debt crisis is posing additional challenges, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday. “Risks remain that developments in Europe or elsewhere may unfold unfavorably and could worsen economic prospects here at home,” Bernanke told the House Budget Committee. But [...]

The Washington Examiner – Sara A Carter More than 500 suspected Taliban fighters detained by U.S. forces have been released from custody at the urging of Afghan government officials, angering both American troops and some Afghans who oppose the policy on the grounds that many of those released return to the battlefield to kill NATO [...]

FoxNews.com Attorney General Eric Holder vigorously denied a “cover-up” by the Justice Department over “Operation Fast and Furious,” telling a House panel investigating the botched gun-running program that he has nothing to hide and suggesting the probe is a “political” effort to embarrass the administration. “There’s no attempt at any kind of cover-up,” Holder told [...]

Reuters – Ros Krasney Real estate mogul Donald Trump re-injected himself and his wealth into the Republican presidential race by endorsing Mitt Romney on Thursday, a day after the front-runner stumbled with remarks suggesting he was indifferent to America’s poor. Trump, himself an on-again/off-again Republican presidential candidate and former member of the party, said he [...]

BBC Diplomats at the UN Security Council have watered down a resolution on Syria in an apparent attempt to overcome Russian objections to an earlier draft. The new text drops explicit reference to a call for President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power, a key part of an Arab League plan. The Russians have argued [...]

BBC - Wyre Davies Demonstrators angered by the deaths of 74 people after a football match in the city of Port Said on Wednesday have clashed with police outside the Egyptian interior ministry in Cairo. Hundreds have been injured, state-owned Egyptian TV reported. Earlier, the Egyptian prime minister announced the sackings of senior officials in Port [...]

World Net Daily – Dave Tombers The council for Baltimore County, Md., is working on a plan that would prevent “discrimination” cases that primarily involve men who dress as women and portray themselves as being female. The idea gained notoriety as the “coed shower” plan when it was adopted several years ago in Montgomery County, [...]

World Net Daily – Jerome R Corsi The Department of Justice gun-tracing operation known as “Fast and Furious” originated in the first year of the Obama administration, when Mexico began complaining that its drug war was the responsibility of the United States. Mexico calculated the U.S. could be blamed for the drug war because U.S. [...]

World Net Daily – Aaron Klein An organization that helped craft President Obama’s environmental policies has recommended the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, purportedly as a method of silencing critics of the theory of global warming. The Presidential Climate Action Project, or PCAP, last year released an extensive list of recommendations for the White House [...]

World Net Daily – Bob Unruh A Georgia resident contending Barack Obama is ineligible for the state’s 2012 presidential election ballot is asking that a court cite him with contempt. In a motion filed in the case pending before Georgia Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi, attorney Van Irion, representing David P. Weldon, urged the court [...]