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Senator Carl Levin to retire in 2014
US Senator Carl Levin, a six-term Democrat and fierce advocate for military personnel and readiness, announced Thursday he will not seek re-election in 2014. The chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee said he would rather spend his final two years as a lawmaker unencumbered by “the distraction of…
Senators blast HSBC over lack of laundering controls
WASHINGTON — US lawmakers accused the global bank HSBC on Monday of opening the doors of the financial system to terrorists, drug dealers and money launderers in a hard-hitting report. Senators found the London-based lender allowed affiliates in countries such as Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh to move billions of…
Michigan women gets 30 days in jail for throwing pie at Sen. Levin
A federal judge in Grand Rapids sentenced an antiwar activist and her accomplice to 30 days in jail for hitting Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) in the face with a dutch apple pie in August 2010. Ahlam Mohsen, 23, and Max Kantar, 24, were sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge…
Gaddafi writes U.S. Congress a thank you note for chastising Obama on Libya
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Libya’s embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi appears to have written to the US Congress to praise its criticism of President Barack Obama over NATO raids on Libya, officials said Friday. In the letter seen by AFP, Kadhafi comments on growing debate in Congress over whether Obama has usurped…
Defense Department: F-35 fighter jet is ‘unaffordable’
WASHINGTON – The cost of building the F-35 fighter jet, set to replace a large part of the US warplane fleet, is “unaffordable” in its current version and must be reviewed, the Pentagon’s top acquisition official said Thursday. “Over the lifetime of this program, the decade or so, the per-aircraft…
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