WASHINGTON — The Treasury will once more break records by auctioning off more than $200 billion this week through eight separate auctions – the busiest week in 24 years.
“Workers across the country are losing their jobs and seeing their hours cut, but the Treasury is working overtime to sell the government debt required to finance [...]

HONOLULU — President Obama was born in Hawai‛i, state officials said, hoping to quash any further speculation that the 44th president was born in Kenya.
“I … have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai‘i and is a natural-born American [...]

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NEWARK, N.J. – The mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield were among 44 people charged today in a “two-track federal investigation of public corruption and a high-volume, international money laundering conspiracy,” Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.
The Jersey City deputy mayor and council president, two state assemblymen, [...]

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WASHINGTON – A report released today by Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, presents evidence that ACORN has evaded taxes, obstructed justice, engaged in racketeering, and created a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
“This report is a comprehensive and substantive examination of an [...]

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama is reaffirming his commitment to space exploration as America marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing.
Barack Obama was only seven years old when Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon.
But he still has memories of those days. He recalls standing [...]

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Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who landed on the moon 40 years ago Monday, says the United States should set its sights on a mission to Mars.
Aldrin appeared on the television news program Fox News Sunday, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11’s lunar landing.
Aldrin said Mars appears to be [...]

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A former Rockwell and Boeing engineer from Orange County, Calif., was remanded into custody this morning after a federal judge convicted him of charges of economic espionage and acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China, for whom he stole restricted technology and Boeing trade secrets, including information related [...]

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans, led by Rep. Kevin Brady,R-Texas, and House Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee (JEC), today outlined a chart detailing the bureaucratic nightmare of the House Democrats’ health care plan.
The chart, which Brady detailed in a presentation to GOP leaders, identifies at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, commissions and [...]

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A U.S. newspaper reports the Bush administration repeatedly discouraged efforts to investigate the 2001 mass killings of Taliban prisoners by the militia of an American-backed warlord.
The New York Times reports the FBI, State Department and Red Cross pushed for a probe, but the White House failed to act because the warlord, General Abdul [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 9, 2009 – A key measurement of success in Afghanistan will be the attitude of Afghans affected by U.S.-led operations, the military’s second-ranking military officer said today.Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the counterinsurgency mission [...]