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There’s a growing dread at the CIA these days that the vultures are circling, waiting to pick off the agency’s best parts. The latest move causing concern is a play by Admiral Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, to name the next intelligence chief in Kabul. CIA Director Leon Panetta, who has already named his own chief from the CIA’s ranks, is reportedly fighting back, much to his boss’s consternation.
— An elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, killing a security guard before being shot. Authorities said they were investigating a white supremacist as the suspect.
The pilot of a helicopter that went missing near a mountain in New Mexico talked to dispatchers just after the craft struck a mountainside, a state official told CNN.
A sharp increase in the number of reported cases of the H1N1 virus in Australia may prompt the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the first global pandemic in over forty years.
Gabon’s President Omar Bongo, Africa’s longest-serving ruler, is not dead, the country’s prime minister said Monday, contradicting reports from Gabonese and French media. Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong “deplored” French media reports that Bongo had died, saying he had met the president Monday morning.
"Your daughter is a walking time bomb." We have been told this more times than I like to remember. We have lived every day not knowing if the next breath she takes will be her last. Her illnesses come so quickly.
Cuba will not rejoin the Organization of American States, even though the multinational organization has lifted the 47-year-old suspension of the country’s membership, a Cuban official said Thursday.
An emotional Nancy Reagan helped unveil a statue of her late husband, President Reagan, on Wednesday, calling the 7-foot figure "a wonderful likeness." “I know Ronnie would be deeply honored to see himself with a permanent home in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol and very proud to be representing his beloved California,” Nancy Reagan said. She appeared to battle emotions as she mentioned her last visit to the marbled hall for Reagan’s memorial in June 2004
If there’s anything more empowering than bringing someone back to life, Dan Bigg wouldn’t know. He has personally resuscitated five people who were unconscious from drug overdoses, and the organization he co-founded in 1991, Chicago Recovery Alliance, has helped save hundreds of others from accidental drug-related death. The organization’s strategy is a simple one: Help people help themselves
President Obama announced Friday he is creating the post of cyber security coordinator to oversee "a new comprehensive approach to securing America’s digital infrastructure." The president said he will personally select the person who takes on that post.