LONDON: The headquarters of the United States Department of Defence, Pentagon, has unveiled a precise scale model of Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound used to plan the Navy SEALs raid that ended in the al Qaeda chief being killed. Wheeled out onto one of the Department of Defence headquarters hallways, the one inch to seven [...]
The death of Mary Richardson Kennedy is another sad event in the long arc of the Kennedy family’s story. The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. died on Wednesday, sources confirmed to ABC News. The news site Radar Online cited a source saying that she committed suicide, though the police would not confirm that.RFK [...]
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has demanded the Air Force take measures to make America’s most expensive fighter plane, the F-22 Raptor, safer for its pilots in light of an ongoing, potentially deadly problem with the plane’s oxygen system, a Pentagon spokesperson said today. As a recent ABC News investigation found, for more than four years [...]
Scooping up dollars for his campaign at a New York fundraiser, President Barack Obama told supporters on Monday that “the American people are on our side” when it comes to issues like same-sex marriage. The president spoke at an event hosted by openly gay singer Ricky Martin, the LGBT Leadership Council and the Futuro Fund, [...]
Mitt Romney spearheaded a Republican challenge to Barack Obama’s backing of same-sex marriage over the weekend, as the party’s Right wing urged him to use it as a “weapon” to unseat the President. As polls indicated that Mr Obama’s new stance on the issue may hurt more than help him electorally, his presumed Republican opponent [...]
WASHINGTON: Following the closure of NATO supplies by Pakistan in retaliation to the killing of its 24 soldiers in a cross border fire by US/NATO troops, the use of northern distribution network is costing US an additional $38 million per month, a US senator has said. “We have learned the Department of Defence will face [...]
WASHINGTON/KABUL: Shortly after sending U.S. troops to Afghanistan in October 2001, President George W. Bush focused so intently on freeing Afghan women from the shackles of Taliban rule that empowering them became central to the United States’ mission there.
Barack Obama has become the first President in US history to unequivocally support gay marriage.
About 32 million more Americans will become obese by 2030, upping obesity rates to 42 percent of the U.S. population, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report also predicts that the proportion of Americans who are severely obese, meaning more than 100 pounds overweight, will reach [...]
Woman who says she spent night with an agent speaks about scandal, saying the agents compromised president’s security. A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the US secret service scandal in Colombia said that the agents involved were “idiots” for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and [...]
