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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said it was “stupid” of President Joe Biden not to reach out to him since he declared he was not supporting former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. In an interview with the Washington Post‘s Leigh Ann Caldwell, Christie said that, while he would not be “voting for Trump under any circumstances,” he would also not be voting for Biden, citing his age.

The White House on Tuesday said it did not assess that Ukraine has reached a stalemate in its defensive war against Russia, as reports from the battlefield detail Kyiv’s struggles to oust Moscow’s forces from dug-in positions on the front lines. National security adviser Jake Sullivan, responding to a reporter’s question, said that Ukraine is taking territory on a “methodical, systematic basis.” “We do not assess that the conflict is a stalemate,” he said in a briefing with reporters. Ukraine’s second, major counteroffensive that was launched in June has proceeded much slower than its first major push in September 2022,...

Roughly $10 billion of a $46 billion pool of federal rental aid has made it to renters, landlords and utilities companies after another $2.8 billion was disbursed by state and local governments in September, the Treasury Department announced Monday. Treasury said that funds from the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program reached more than 510,000 households last month and more than 2 million since the initiative began this year. The department had distributed the entirety of the $46 billion to eligible state and local entities in May to help struggling renters avoid eviction upon the expiration of federal and state moratoria.

A high-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared in an interview with PBS that the age of antibiotics has come to an end. 'For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about "The end of antibiotics, question mark?"' said Dr Arjun Srinivasan. 'Well, now I would say you can change the title to "The end of antibiotics, period.”' The associate director of the CDC sat down with Frontline over the summer for a lengthy interview about the growing problem of antibacterial resistance. Srinivasan, who is also featured in...

Hama, The son of Imam E Kaba reached to Syria to fight Jihad, he left his homeland Saudi Arabia and joins the Al-Qaida Group, according to the AnsarUllah Report Sheikh Doctor Abdullah Mohammad Ul Mohsani is a wealthy Saudi scholar and have a good position in Saudi Arabia. According to the Report Sheikh doctor Abdullah Mohammad Ul Mohsani have three children , after reaching to Syria he inform his follower through twitter , (@mhesne:15). Through twitter Sheikh doctor Abdullah Mohammad Ul Mohsani said that I read the Hades and the call for Jihad of Syrian Scholars , also I heard...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: "The Occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol Continues for a Third Day." Those are not my words. That's the headline of a story in the Communist Party USA's People's World website, and according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the AFL-CIO national president Richard Trumka is expected to join thousands of demonstrators at noon in Wisconsin today. That's sorta like the head of the Muslim Brotherhood showing up at Tahrir Square in Cairo. A check of headlines around the world is very upsetting. It is not comforting. None of this was supposed to happen. It was all supposed to...

Both the left and right sides of the blogosphere are buzzing about a bipartisan TARP-style banking bailout bill that somehow reached President Obama’s desk in the legislative rush before Congress adjourned for the midterm election break. The sordid episode underscores everything I’ve spotlighted about the culture of corruption over the last two years — sabotage of the deliberative process, circumventing of rules, backroom deals, and contempt for the will of the people. Yes, the Vampire Congress strikes again. The bill is HR3808, the “Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010,” which requires courts to accept as valid notarized letters made...

WASHINGTON – Standing before a nation on an economic precipice, President Barack Obama told worried Americans Tuesday night the U.S. has reached a dire "day of reckoning" that will require boldness and long-term vision to create lasting revival and prosperity. "The time to take charge of our future is here," Obama said, delivering his first address to a joint session of Congress just five weeks into his presidency. Along with his warnings, he had reassuring words. "Tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Officials say President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have reached deal on a coalition Cabinet. The officials say Kibaki and Odinga agreed on a coalition Cabinet following seven hours of talks and will announce the new ministers Sunday afternoon. The officials, who requested not to be further identified, spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks. Isaiya Kabira, spokesman for Kibaki, told The Associated Press that there is a "good chance" a coalition Cabinet will be announced Sunday.

VIENNA, Austria - Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. A weeklong U.N. climate conference concluded that industrialized countries should strive to cut emissions by 25 percent to 40 percent of their 1990 levels by 2020. Experts said that target would serve as a loose guide for a major international climate summit to be held in December in Bali, Indonesia. "We have reached broad agreement on the main issues," said Leon Charles, a negotiator from Grenada...

FORT HUACHUCA — The terms of a proposed lease for the World War II Colored Officers Club on this Southeastern Arizona Army post have been approved by the Army Corps of Engineers, said one of the organizers trying to save the facility. It still has to be signed by all parties. “It’s another milestone. Now there is some light at the end of the tunnel, like a flashlight (beam),” said Tom Stoney Sr., president of the Southwest Association of Buffalo Soldiers. More than three years ago, the association signed a memorandum with the fort to halt the wrecking ball that...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2006 -- The Iraqi army is halfway to its goal of 10 divisions as the 4th Division assumed command of the area north of Baghdad yesterday. Lt. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Abdel-Rahman al-Mufti (left), commander of 4th Iraqi Army Division, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad (second from left), present gifts to the division’s senior staff Aug. 8 during a ceremony at Forward Operating Base Dagger, in Tikrit. Photo by Staff Sgt. Russell Lee Klika, USA  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The division assumed primary control of its area of responsibility from the 101st Airborne Division....

SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders struck a budget deal late Monday on a $100 billion-plus spending plan, ending the partisan stalemate that had stymied the rookie governor for nearly a month. In rapid succession, budget negotiators knocked off the final obstacles to a compromise that does not raise taxes but relies on an unprecedented level of borrowing to narrow California's chronic gap between spending and revenue. Standing together after a week of bitter exchanges, in which the governor referred to lawmakers as ``girly-men,'' Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders said they expect final passage of their deal before the end...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Even as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle prepared for a deepening of California's 20-day budget deadlock, party leaders emerged from a meeting Tuesday with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with a tentative agreement on a key issue that has been holding up resolution of the state spending plan. Despite the harsh partisan rancor that has enveloped the Capitol during the last several days, officials say the handshake over how public schools can contract services with private companies could pave the way for a broader agreement on the last remaining hurdles facing budget negotiators. "I think we are...