A quick trip around Hannity’s America… Car Trouble Is it even news anymore? Another Obama appointee is under investigation. This time, it’s the administration’s “car czar.” The Wall Street Journal revealed Friday that Steven Rattner is the subject of a long-running SEC investigation into a massive pay-to-play scheme. Authorities allege …
Read More »Libya: Pan Am Flight 103 Bomber Prepared to Drop Appeal
LONDON – The only person jailed over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing said he would drop his appeal against conviction — provided Britain allows him to serve the rest of sentence in Libya, a visiting Libyan official said Wednesday. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who is terminally ill with cancer, was found …
Read More »Florida Authorities Search for Serial Bank Robber
BOCA RATON, Fla. – South Florida authorities are searching for what they are calling a serial bank robber. A Palm Beach Sheriff’s release said a suspect struck robbed a Boca Raton bank Friday. He walked up to a teller and demanded money. He’s described as being in his mid 30s …
Read More »U.S. Aims to Deprive Taliban of Drug Revenue by Promoting Alternate Crops to Opium
TRIESTE, Italy – The U.S. is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan’s drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to fight trafficking and promote alternate crops, according to the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan. The aim of the new policy: to deprive the Taliban of the tens of …
Read More »Pelosi Backpedals on Tea Partiers
The news that is not White House approved… Nancy’s New Friends House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has never been a big fan of the Tea Party movement. You may remember her saying this last year: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, APRIL 30, 2009: This initiative …
Read More »Italy Agrees to Accept 140 Stranded Migrants Aboard Turkish Ship
ROME – Italy agreed Sunday night to accept 140 migrants stranded aboard a Turkish cargo ship that rescued them in the Mediterranean, ending a four-day standoff with Malta about who would take them in. The Italian government “has decided to let humanitarian reasons prevail,” Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said. “Malta …
Read More »Man Tried to Sell Advanced Rocket Technology to South Korea, Feds Say
MIAMI – A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology. Investigators also found thousands of e-mails allegedly sent by Juwhan …
Read More »New Jersey Doctor's License Suspended Indefinitely After Patients Get Hepatitis
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey doctor whom health officials suspect was the source of a hepatitis B outbreak had his medical license suspended indefinitely on Wednesday by state regulators. Nearly 3,000 of Dr. Parvez Dara’s patients have been warned to get tested after five cancer patients tested positive for the …
Read More »Rove: Biden Is a 'Serial Exaggerator' and 'Blowhard'
This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” April 9, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS GUEST HOST: Well, Karl Rove goes “On the Record.” Vice President Biden made waves recently when he told a dramatic …
Read More »Casey Anthony Largely Stoic Before Daughter's Remains Were Found
ORLANDO, Fla. – Casey Anthony, accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, rarely showed emotion in jail but became unhinged after she found out a toddler’s remains had been found near her family’s home, according to interviews with jail staff released on Monday. A shift supervisor at the jail where Casey …
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