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2-Day Strike In Greece Before Budget Vote

The New York Times reports : Greeks walked off the job for 48 hours on Tuesday, a day before Parliament is to vote on unpopular austerity measures that are deemed critical to unlocking international financial support. The rare two-day strike, organized by the country’s two main labor …

Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday June 28, 2011

Bush Rates Kept Safe in Debt-Limit Talks

The Hill reports : The White House, seeking an agreement to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2, on Monday said it would not insist that any deal include an end to former President George W. Bush’s controversial tax rates on the wealthy. President Obama’s tactics …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

SCOTUS to Hear FCC Challenge

The Washington Post reports : The Federal Communications Commission has been fighting for years to be television’s Miss Manners. Now, the Supreme Court may finally lay any question about its role to rest. The Supreme Court said Monday it would take up a case to determine whether the …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

War Crime Charges Brought Against Qaddafi

The New York Times reports : The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants on Monday for Libya ’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi , one of his sons and his intelligence chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity during the first two weeks of the …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Money Was Key in NY Gay Marriage Bill

The Huffington Post reports : The passage of historic legislation legalizing same sex marriage in the state of New York last Friday was owed in large part to a compelling political motivator: money. Although New York's legislators were already disposed to approving gay marriage because …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Hatch Takes Tea Party Heat

POLITICO reports : Despite his overtures to the tea party movement this year, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, Orrin Hatch of Utah, still hasn’t won over voters like Darcy Van Orden, who hasn’t forgotten his moderate past and wants the National Republican Senatorial …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Sanders: Don't 'Yield' on Debt Deal

The Huffington Post reports : It wasn't quite a " fili-Bernie ," but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a 10,000-word speech on the Senate floor launched a campaign Monday to call for eliminating tax breaks for the wealthy and protecting working people in a deficit-reduction deal. "Instead …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

McConnell: No Tax Hikes

POLITICO reports : President Barack Obama stepped back into deficit-reduction talks Monday, only to be greeted by a double-barrel blast from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell , who peremptorily rejected any deal that would include the added revenues Obama wants together with …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

TX Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood

POLITICO reports : The Texas Legislature approved a bill Monday that would both compel the state to push the Obama administration to convert Texas’s Medicaid program into a block grant and defund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. The omnibus health bill also includes a number …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Citigroup Ex-VP Arrested For Fraud

The Associated Press reports : A former Citigroup vice president embezzled $19.2 million from the bank in a one-man "inside job" involving a series of secret money transfers, federal prosecutors said Monday. Gary Foster, 35, of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., surrendered Sunday at John F. …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Bashar al-Assad Sets Date For 'National Dialogue'

The Guardian reports : Syrian authorities have set a date for a "national dialogue" with goverment opponents beginning on 10 July, but activists dismissed the prospect as pointless while a crackdown continues. The move came as scores of opposition members met in Damascus, apparently with …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

250,000 Afghans Displaced

USA Today reports : More than 250,000 Afghans have fled their villages during the past two years of fighting, Refugees International says, in a report critical of U.S. Special Forces and other international and Afghan military operations for exacerbating the displacement of civilians. …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Blago Convicted On Corruption Charges

ABC News reports : A federal jury in Chicago this afternoon convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated when President Obama was elected in 2008. The jurors told the judge this morning they had agreed on 18 of 20 counts, of which …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Former Russian Spy Chief Convicted Of Treason

The LA Times 0, 4257673.story"> reports : A Russian military court sentenced a former spymaster to 25 years in prison Monday for betraying an espionage ring operating in the United States, a revelation last year that briefly strained relations between the two nations and turned one of the …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

GOP Primary Strategy: "Get Mitt"

The Daily Telegraph reports: I’ve just arrived in Iowa, the Midwestern farm state that Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum will be visiting in the next 48 hours. Iowa may be bland and sparsely popuated but it hosts the Republican caucuses, the first …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Debt-Panel: Make $2T Down Payment, Then Final Deal

The Hill reports : Congress and the White House should agree to a $2 trillion down payment on the federal deficit in a deal to raise the debt ceiling but leave more significant reforms for later, according to the chairmen of President Obama's fiscal commission. But broader fiscal reforms …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Iran Unveils Underground Missile Silos

USA Today reports : Iran on Monday unveiled underground missile silos for the first time as it kicked off 10 days of large-scale war games, the country's latest show of military force amid a standoff with the West over its disputed nuclear program. State TV broadcast footage of deep …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Israel Rescinds Threat To Flotilla Reporters

The New York Times reports : Israel on Monday set aside its warning of a day earlier that any foreign journalists aboard a flotilla planning to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza risked being barred from Israel for up to a decade and having their equipment impounded. In …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

Supreme Court Throws Out AZ Campaign Spending Law

CNN reports : The Supreme Court has tossed out an Arizona law that provides extra taxpayer-funded support for office seekers who have been outspent by privately funded opponents or by independent political groups. A conservative 5-4 majority of justices on Monday said the law violated free …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011

China, U.K. Announce $2.2B Business Deals

The Wall Street Journal reports : U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Monday announced business deals between the two countries valued at £1.4 billion ($2.2 billion), as they discussed ways to increase trade. The men said they were aiming for bilateral trade to …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday June 27, 2011