Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight.Martha Stewart (search)and America, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” One of the reasons the Founding Fathers of this country built Judeo-Christian philosophy into the fabric of the law was because the founders wanted a collective morality in …
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IsHoward Stern (search)bigger than radio? I don’t think so. But no matter what I think,Stern isabout to find out just how bighe is — or is not — when he leaves commercial radiofor what he believes are greener pastures above the ionosphere onsatellite radio. If you haven’t heard, Stern signed …
Read More »An U.N.-Helpful Plan for Iraq
It sounds like the punch line to a bad joke. According to media reports, the U.N. Secretary-General’s office has already drawn up detailed plans for the United Nations to step in and administer Iraq three months after the war ends. The confidential blueprint calls for setting up a U.N. “Assistance …
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GENEVA – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is warning that public discussion of select details of the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran will make it more difficult to reach a deal that prevents the country from developing atomic weapons. In comments to reporters in Geneva on Monday, Kerry said …
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RIO DE JANEIRO – The Brazilian lead investigator in the case of a religious sect leader sought on sex charges by the U.S. government says the support of a Brazilian woman described as a longtime friend helped him elude authorities in the middle of a manhunt. The chief of federal …
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KINSHASA, Congo – Lawmakers in Congo have approved a new version of the country’s electoral law after scrapping a provision that opposition leaders said was intended to prolong the president’s time in power. Both the Senate and the National Assembly passed the law on Sunday. It now heads to President …
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A Sri Lankan minister says the country’s new government plans to give back military-held private land in the country’s war-ravaged north and release detainees in apparent moves at post-civil war reconciliation with ethnic minority Tamils. Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne told reporters late Wednesday that his government …
Read More »Tips For President Bush on Meeting With the French
So President Bush and Jacques Chirac are going to meet face to face. The big trip. The big powwow. The big moment. Frankly, I don’t even think he should be hobnobbing with Chirac, but if he must… some free tips from me: Tip 1: Shake Chirac’s hand, but make it …
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PODGORICA, Montenegro – Police in Montenegro say they have arrested 16 people suspected of smuggling into Serbia 138 Syrian migrants who were trying to flee their war-ravaged country and reach Western Europe Police said Friday they have broken a human smuggling chain from Albania to Serbia that passes Montenegro. Tens …
Read More »Month-long challenge to $1.4 billion Peru open-pit copper mining project claims first life
LIMA, Peru – Mourners carried a coffin holding a 61-year-old farmer through the streets of a southern Peru port city Thursday after the man became the first fatality of a monthlong protest against a Mexican-owned copper mining project. Agriculture Minister Juan Manuel Benites, the chief government negotiator in the dispute, …
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