Benghazi panel to interview former CIA Director Petraeus
WASHINGTON (AP) – A House committee looking into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya is interviewing former CIA Director David Petraeus as the investigation enters its third calendar year – and a presidential election year. Petraeus is the first of four former Obama administration officials the Republican-led committee is interviewing in the next week.…
US sees Assad staying in Syria until March 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration’s best-case scenario for political transition in Syria does not foresee Bashar Assad stepping down as the country’s leader before March 2017, outlasting Barack Obama’s presidency by at least two months, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. An internal timeline prepared for U.S. officials dealing with the…
Cash-rich super PACs prolong flagging presidential campaigns
Less than a month before voting begins, the Republican field still has a dozen presidential hopefuls. Super PACs are one reason why
Trump feigns outrage after rally-goer calls leaders Muslim
Trump jokingly admonished a man at the rally that yelled the country’s leaders are “Muslims.”
Monsanto To Cut 1,000 More Jobs
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Monsanto says it will eliminate another 1,000 jobs as it expands a cost-cutting plan designed to deal with falling sales of biotech-corn seeds and other financial pressures. The additional layoffs will bring the St. Louis based company’s planned total cuts to 3,600 jobs, or about 16 percent of its workforce. In…