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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has extended the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba for one year, the White House said in a statement released on Monday. The extension was expected and has been the practice of all U.S. presidents dating to the 1970s under a section of the so-called "Trading With the Enemy Act." Obama extended the embargo even though he has made reaching out to old U.S. foes a key plank in his foreign policy.

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European and Asian markets fell Monday, shaken by news of a trade dispute between the U.S. and China over tariffs on tires. Germany's DAX fell 1.4 percent to 5,544.71 and Britain's FTSE 100 lost 1.0 percent at 4,962.90. France's CAC-40 shed 1.4 percent to 3,683.72. Asian indexes lost as much as 2 percent and Wall Street was expected to fall later. Dow industrials futures were down 81 points at 9,450.00 and Standard & Poor's 500 futures slipped 9.90 points to 1,027.40. The U.S. decision to impose trade penalties on Chinese tires infuriated Beijing, which condemned the move as protectionist and...

Republican David Vitter says no federal funds should go to the New Orleans-based ACORN organization. Vitter has introduced an amendment to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill that would bar any federal money in that approrpriation from going to ACORN. "It's certainly not news to anyone that ACORN has been the subject of some controversy over the past year, and last year's presidential election brought to light evidence of ACORN chapters engaging in fraudulent voter registration activities," Vitter said. "They are currently under federal investigation and this is simply not the sort of organization that should be funded...

MANATEE — County officials are holding a gun buyback and community forum on violence in light of the second fatal teen shooting in a month. “You never know what guns you’re going to get,” said Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube when asked about the gun buyback. “You never know if you’re going to get guns that are kept off the street.” Authorities still haven’t found where 18-year-old Daniel Williams allegedly discarded a gun authorities say he used to shoot a Bayshore High School cheerleader. Detectives say Williams fired into a car full of cheerleaders, hitting and killing 17-year-old Jasmine Thompson...

Already squeezed by the invasion of the giant Burmese python, Florida now faces what one scientist calls one of the U.S. state's "worst nightmares." Africa's largest snake—the ill-tempered, 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) African rock python—is colonizing the U.S. state, new discoveries suggest. Six African rock pythons have been found in Florida since 2002. More troubling, a pregnant female and two hatchlings have been found, which means the aggressive reptiles have set up house. More dangerous than even Burmese pythons—which are known to eat alligators (alligator-python picture)—the African pythons are "so mean, they come out of the egg striking," said Kenneth Krysko, senior...

BRUSSELS -- This weekend's U.S.-China trade skirmish is just the tip of a coming protectionist iceberg, according to a report released Monday by Global Trade Alert, a team of trade analysts backed by independent think tanks, the World Bank and the U.K. government. A report by the World Trade Organization, backed by its 153 members and also released Monday, found "slippage" in promises to abstain from protectionism, but drew less dramatic conclusions. (Read the report.) Governments have planned 130 protectionist measures that have yet to be implemented, according to the GTA's research. These include state aid funds, higher tariffs, immigration...

Rep. Joe Wilson, the Republican from South Carolina who shouted "You lie" during President Obama's health-care address to Congress, has already apologized at least twice: once in a statement issued by his office and once in a phone call to the White House. He tried to reach the president and had to settle for Rahm Emanuel -- not, by all accounts, one of the more forgiving souls in politics. But some Democrats are not satisfied. They want Wilson to apologize on the House floor. Presumably this means during an official House session, and not actually while lying prostrate on the...

I’m old. So I have every right to pen this column. Just surviving to 63 years old alone is justification enough for me to be querulous. And besides that, the older I get the more I become my little old Italian mother’s selfsame son, which means I never have an opinion that goes unexpressed. And my opinion is that Barack Obama hates us old folks. For some reason, we Baby Boomers seem to stick in that guy’s crawl. To him, we’re little more than the living dead. We’re ghoulish zombies preying on all about us. And the sooner he can...

ALL parents must be warned about the Obama administration’s intention to destroy the family once and for all. We have lost the mom & pop stores to the giant corporations. We have lost our wealth to Washington bloodsuckers and Wall Street werewolves, minions of the New World Order. We have trusted our government to protect us and the world, and they have plundered, murdered and destroyed both lives and wealth. KEEP THE GOVERNMENT AWAY FROM YOUR CHILDREN, both unborn and born.

Time Warner Cable confirms that it has pulled the Democratic National Committee's ad claiming that Republicans want to kill Medicare. A Republican National Committee lawyer wrote the cable provider to complain that the ad was false, and the RNC said Friday that the ad was being pulled, which the DNC denied. My colleague Andy Barr spoke today to Rich Ambrose, Time Warner’s vice president for political ad sales. “As of midnight Friday, the ads were pulled. There were no ads scheduled Saturday or Sunday by the DNC. And we are currently in the process of getting more information from the...

As public outrage in some parts of the country against President Obama seems to grow louder by the week, some Democrats believe that his sharpest critics are driven by racism. At a fall gathering of the Democratic National Committee in Austin, several Democrats expressed dismay with the anger exploding mostly from white Americans, such as the tens of thousands who marched on the nation's capital Saturday. African-American lawmakers like Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson say the tone of the president's critics increasingly suggests what is motivating their vitriol. "It's hurting the spirit of this country," Johnson said, expressing worry about...

Annie Le was a Yale University PhD student who was recently found dead in a campus building, found the same day she was supposed to get married. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549765,00.html Several months before her untimely death, she wrote an article about avoiding/dealing with crime on the campus after interviewing the Chief of police in town. http://bbs.yale.edu/images/B10_1.pdf In this piece, several tips are given by the Chief, but none could realistically help someone Annie Le's size (4' 11" and 90 pounds) against an attacker. Simply unrealistic. Once again, the officials ignore the elephant in the room; namely, that guns are often the best...

MIR ALI, Pakistan — A missile fired from a suspected unmanned U.S. drone slammed into a car in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan border Monday, killing four people, intelligence officials and residents said. The apparent American strike was the latest of more than 50 in the region since last year aimed at killing top Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders. Last month, the head of the Pakistani Taliban was killed in one such strike. Monday's attack took place about 1.5 miles from the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, killing four people, two officials and witnesses said....

Crowd Size From The 9/12 March On Washington DC 84rules September 14, 2009

A retired teacher died of a burst stomach ulcer after a paramedic told her to ‘stop being such a drama queen’ and failed to take her to hospital, an inquest heard yesterday. Mother-of-three Eileen Ellis-Whitfield, 63, died just hours after an ambulance was called to her home when she fell seriously ill with chronic stomach pains.

Hearing This Week in Judicial Watch Lawsuit Challenging Hillary Clinton's Constitutional Eligibility for Secretary of State Challenge Filed on Behalf of State Department Foreign Service Officer -- Court Hearing Set for September 16, 2009 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that a lawsuit challenging the constitutional eligibility of Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State (Rodearmel v. Clinton, et al., (D. District of Columbia)) will be heard by a special three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: Date: Wednesday, September 16 Time: 9:30 AM ET Location: Courtroom...

Michael Medved placed Georgia Congressman Paul Broun’s comments about Obama wanting an authoritarian regime into the category of “conspiracies” on a recent “conspiracy Friday” show. He said that such statements did not “help” the conservative cause. Medved echoes what I hear from some conservative colleagues in the academy who do not want to be labeled “extremist,” who would like to wait for all the evidence, archived and footnoted, to come in before they draw conclusions. History will tell if Congressman Broun is right. But history most often tells us what happens when individuals are afraid to take action, when they...

Public trust in the US media is eroding and increasing numbers of Americans believe news coverage is inaccurate and biased, according to a study released on Monday.The poll found television remained the dominant news source for the public, with 71 percent saying they get most of their national and international news from television. Forty-two percent said they get most of their news from the Internet compared with 33 percent who cited newspapers. Fifty-nine percent rated news organizations as "highly professional," down from 66 percent two years ago and 72 percent in 1985. Sixty-two percent of those polled said news organizations...