Posts Tagged ‘security’

Secretary Napolitano expresses grief over deaths of agents

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The top official of the United States Homeland Security expressed her grief at the death of two federal agents when their vehicle was stuck by a freight train on Thursday morning as they were on the trail of illegal immigrants in the area [...]

Government services delayed during shutdown

Congress temporarily prevented a partial government shutdown late Friday night with a last minute budget deal. The agreement keeps the federal government funded through April 15, the end of this week. While the shutdown threat is no longer immediate, it left people wondering what would happen to a lot of services. If a shutdown were [...]

Obama, Erdogan have common stance on Libya

Obama and Erdogan “reaffirmed their support for the full implementation” of recent UN Security Council resolutions “in order to protect the Libyan people,” a White House statement said. View full post on All Stories

Libya dominates Washington agenda as Obama visits Chile

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States put all its machinery including President Barack Obama to reiterate that a broad multinational coalition is behind the Libyan military operations and there is a strict adherence to the conditions outlined in the United Nations mandate. Speaking in Santiago, Chile, [...]

U.S. Tomahawk missiles rain on Libya to enforce U.N. ceasefire

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States announced its taking a leading role with the launch of “Operation Odyssey Dawn” on Saturday to enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 to protect the Libyan population from sanguinary attacks of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. American and British submarines along with [...]

Homeland chief: U.S. will extradite suspects in ICE killing

In testimony today before the House Committee on Homeland Security, the head of the sprawling agency that protects the nation at home announced that the Obama administration will ask Mexico to turn over the suspected killers of ICE agent Jaime Zapata to face trial in an American court. View full post on All Stories

The Politics of Punting on Entitlement Reform

Everyone seems to be outraged that President Obama has broken his promise to tackle entitlement reform and turned in a 2012 budget that ignores two main factors in ruinous fiscal outlays, Social Security and Medicare View full post on All Stories

Sanders warns Obama not to agree with GOP on Social Security benefit cuts

Sanders says it’s bending to “Republican right-wing ideology, which doesn’t like Social Security because it’s a successful federal program.” Read more… View full post on All Stories

Incoming Congress set to bring tougher immigration policies

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The shift in power the New Year will bring to the U.S. House of Representatives is worrying some members of the Hispanic population who were hoping immigration policies would turn in their favor. The Senate failed to approve the DREAM Act this month, [...]

U.N. votes to lift Iraq sanctions

AHN News Staff New York, United States (AHN) – The United Nations Security Council has lifted most of the sanctions it imposed on war-torn Iran during former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime. In a vote on Wednesday, the members agreed to end sanctions to stop Iraq from constructing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The West [...]

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