JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli Cabinet minister said Tuesday that top officials doubt a peace deal with the Palestinians can be reached soon even though the prime minister has committed to try to reach an agreement within a year. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured hundreds of requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by The Associated Press. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated Deputy Secretary of State Jacob Lew to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget Tuesday, charging him with putting the nation on a fiscally responsible path. (more)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is likely to significantly ease the land blockade of Gaza in coming days in an effort to blunt the international outcry over its deadly raid on a blockade-busting flotilla, officials said Wednesday. (more)
LONDON (AP) — Britain ushered in its first coalition government since World War II on Wednesday as a pair of rivals-turned-partners pledged to set aside their deep policy differences and tackle the country’s disastrous budget deficit. (more)
OCALA – A junior sleuth, using his cell phone, videotaped a veteran teacher going through student lockers at North Marion High School on Thursday. (more)
PHOENIX (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she will freeze funds for expanding the virtual fence that originally was supposed to monitor most of the 2,000-mile southern U.S. border by 2011 but now covers only a portion of Arizona’s boundary with Mexico. (more)
NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed Tuesday for closer military cooperation between America and India to bring stability to South Asia. (more)
TOKYO (AP) — Japan and the U.S. marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of their security pact Tuesday even as a dispute over plans to move a U.S. Marine base on the southern island of Okinawa strains ties between the two major trading partners. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is making it easier for Haitian orphans being adopted by Americans to enter the United States. (more)
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he doubts Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar will ever make peace with the elected Afghan government. (more)
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States remains concerned about the possibility of lawlessness and increased violence in Haiti, but is not planning an expanded policing role now. (more)
PARIS (AP) — The United Nations must investigate and clarify the dominant U.S. role in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a French minister said Monday, claiming that international aid efforts were about helping Haiti, not “occupying” it. (more)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Rescuers pulled a dehydrated but otherwise uninjured woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital early Sunday, an event greeted with applause from onlookers witnessing rare good news in a city otherwise filled with corpses, rubble and desperation. (more)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — With food, water and other aid flowing into Haiti in earnest, relief groups and officials are focused on moving the supplies out of the clogged airport and to hungry, haggard earthquake survivors in the capital. (more)
Trickle of aid to Haiti quake survivors worries officials as hunger, thirst beset ruined city (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Afghanistan government must match the U.S. commitment in that war-ravaged country while expanding the Afghan army and security forces to have a chance at stabilizing the region, says a Republican lawmaker who just returned from a trip there. (more)
KABUL (AP) — The Afghan parliament has approved President Hamid Karzai’s picks for foreign and justice ministers but rejected the nominee for higher education as voting began on a second slate of Cabinet choices after lawmakers rejected most of his first list. (more)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Charlie Crist has asked that the federal government to declare all of Florida an agriculture disaster area due to 13 straight days of freezing weather. (more)
MIAMI (AP) — Haitians in the U.S. illegally have for years pleaded for the same treatment the federal government gave Central Americans in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch devastated their region. (more)
