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North Carolina Gov.-elect Josh Stein (D) said he is “eager” to work with the incoming administration to access federal relief for his state as it recovers from the devastation left by Hurricane Helene. Stein told ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl that residents in the western part of the state are “really suffering,” but that he is “eager” to work with the incoming Trump administration on finding solutions. “Hurricane Helene left unimaginable devastation in its wake, many lives lost, thousands of buildings destroyed, homes and small businesses, infrastructure, critical infrastructure, water and sewer, wastewater, highways, parts of Interstate-40 fell into...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday "harassment is not making someone feel uncomfortable" and that he's "eager" to tell New Yorkers the other side of the story, as he repeated that he did nothing wrong regarding allegations that he sexually harassed multiple women. Cuomo took questions from the media after giving a COVID-19 update from the Bronx.

Yet another staffer for Rep. Adam Schiff served as a fellow for the Atlantic Council, a think tank that is funded by and works in partnership with Burisma, the natural gas company at the center of allegations regarding Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Sean Misko has been described as “close friends” with Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower. Misko reportedly joined Schiff’s staff at the House Intelligence Committee in August – the same month the so-called whistleblower’s complaint was filed after first reportedly interfacing with a staffer for Schiff’s office. Misko in...

NOW ZAD, Afghanistan, March 9, 2010 – Afghanistan is a Muslim country, but a Christmas miracle took place in this city, a senior Marine Corps officer said here today. Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson commanded the operation that liberated Now Zad from Taliban control and is now in charge of the operation to clear neighboring Marja of the Taliban. He said that the operation in Now Zad, though, is more indicative of the rebirth of the province. “You’ve got to remember that this town was a ghost town for four years,” Nicholson told reporters traveling with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates....

Apparently, some District residents aren't waiting on the District Council and the Fenty administration to work out the specifics of how to modify the gun ban to comply to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week. Gun shops in Maryland and Virginia suburbs told The Washington Post's Allison Klein that they've gotten a number of inquiries from D.C. residents trying to buy hardware. See the article here: The Washington Post: Gun Shops Await New D.C. Rules.

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Aug. 5, 2007 – Weary of the violence to which their community has been victim, residents of the Andaloos district here have organized a Neighborhood Watch to keep watch against insurgent activity. Iraqi men of the Andaloos district of Fallujah wait in the hot sun July 30, 2007, to be selected as recruits for the new Neighborhood Watch program set up in their community through the efforts of Marines, Iraqi Army, Iraqi police and local community leaders. The program is part of ongoing Operation Alljah to transform the communities within Fallujah to provide security, civil assistance and...

ANAH — Back home in Brainerd, Minn., this Minnesota Army National Guardsman Pfc. Adam Starry tends to lawns as a landscaper. Here in this 5,000-year-old city of about 20,000 people, Starry is helping to train several Iraqi police officers. Starry, of Company B, 194th Combined Arms Battalion, and 15 of his fellow soldiers are experiencing what it is like being an Iraqi police officer in a city that is still a hotbed of insurgent activity. They form a police transition team whose task is to train the Iraqi police on how to take control of their own communities and maintain...

Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV addresses members of the media at a Media Roundtable Dec. 27 at the Combined Press Information Center. BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi Security Force and Iraqi Police are eager to help find solutions for the challenges facing their country, and they are becoming more capable of assuming increased responsibility for security, a senior U.S. military officer said Wednesday. As President George W. Bush deliberates the way ahead in Iraq, the Iraqi people and their security forces will ultimately have the responsibility to quell violence and effect peace across the country, Maj. Gen. William B....

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2006 – Iraqi military and police forces are eager to help find solutions for the challenges facing their country, and they are becoming more capable of assuming increased responsibility for security, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad today. As President Bush deliberates the way ahead in Iraq, the Iraqi people and their security forces will ultimately have the responsibility to quell violence and effect peace across the country, Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, told reporters. “Ultimately, Iraqis have to step up and develop solutions to their country’s problems,”...

WASHINGTON — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is eager to take more responsibility for his country’s security, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, said today. Currently, two Iraqi Army divisions are completely under Iraqi control, though Iraq controls its police forces. “He wants to have appropriate capability and command and control of forces,” Khalilzad told Wolf Blitzer, host of CNN’s “Late Edition.” “We welcome his desire to have more forces, to have more capable and credible forces, and for him to have command and control of Iraqi Forces that are currently under coalition control.” A plan already existed to transfer...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to position himself as a leader on climate change while maintaining support from business leaders has created an election-year dilemma that threatens to undermine his environmental credentials. The Democratic majority in the Legislature plans to send him a bill this month that would create the country's first law capping greenhouse gas emissions from refineries, power plants and other industrial sources. He has asked for several pro-business changes to the bill that Democrats and environmentalists complain would severely weaken it. Schwarzenegger has made global warming his signature environmental issue and is eager to sign...

Eager donors go overboard for ClintonNew York Daily News WASHINGTON — There is no such thing as an embarrassment of riches in politics, but this comes close. **SNIP** The New York Daily News found in a review of Federal Election Commission records that the FEC has sent Clinton’s campaign committee, Friends of Hillary, a letter demanding that it deal with 39 donors who gave her too much in the past quarter, when the campaign raked in $6 million. The most common error is that donors gave her more than allowed for either the primary or general election — $2,100 is...

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2006 – With the war on terror in its fifth year, U.S. military personnel continue to pack duffle bags and don desert camouflage uniforms -- many not for the first time. "I am proud of what I accomplished during my tour in Iraq and would be proud to return, on sea or on land," Navy Lt. Cmdr. David Bitler, a surface warfare officer, said. Bitler is assigned to the USS Tarawa, which returned from a Middle East cruise in February. "Most of all, I'd be honored to work again alongside the Iraqi people, whose bravery and courage...

WASHINGTON, March 24, 2006 – The United States is seeing big returns on its three-year investment in Iraqi security forces, the U.S. commander in charge of training Iraqi forces said today. Now is a critical time in the U.S. mission in Iraq, and U.S. forces are focusing more and more on transitioning to Iraqi forces, Army Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, commander of Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq, said in a news conference from Iraq. Transition is occurring not only in responsibility for battlespace, but also in responsibility for Iraq's borders, plans and policies in Iraq's joint headquarters; business practices...

The William F. Clinton Foundation has posted an Internet job listing for unpaid interns. Seriously. The president that is now the butt of jokes anytime anyone claims they did not have sex with 'that woman' is brought forward apparently would again like to have a gal Friday around to help out. One item on the web site promises hands-on experience and says the interns have the responsibility of interacting directly with the staff. (Insert any joke you would like here). No - I'm not making it up. Page Six gives this account: It's been 10 years since the ex-president faced...

German public sector workers fighting plans to extend their working hours have widened their strike action to cover most of the country. An estimated 20,000 local and regional authority staff including nurses, cooks and cleaners have joined the largest public sector strike in 14 years. They are protesting against plans to extend weekly working hours by 90 minutes, from 38.5 to 40 hours a week. The industrial action...has now spread to 10 of Germany's 16 states... Leaders at Verdi - Germany's biggest union with 2.4 million members - have warned that the strikes could last for up to six weeks.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting a taste of his own marketing. Two months ago the celebrity governor plastered his grinning face on billboards from Phoenix to Boston, hoping to entice employers to relocate to the West Coast with the slogan, "Arnold says, California wants your business (Actually he says 'Kah-li-fornia.')" Now the competition is getting up close and personal. Two of the targets of Schwarzenegger's sales pitch, Massachusetts and Nevada, are retaliating with rival advertisements in California cities, angling for jobs with the promise of lower taxes and a brighter future. They're also taking friendly shots...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Eager to overcome months of hurt feelings, Mexico's foreign minister began a two-day trip to Washington on Wednesday sounding, to put it diplomatically, contrite and ready to mend frayed relations.</p> <p>Fighting terrorism is Mexico's ``No. 1 priority,'' Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez asserted, sounding a note certain to please in Washington.</p>

<p>BEIJING (AP) - Chinese officials rejected Monday Secretary of State Colin Powell's appeal for a regional approach to the North Korean nuclear standoff and called for direct talks between the United States and Pyongyang to resolve concerns over the communist nation's nuclear weapons programs.</p>