Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CBS’s “60 Minutes,” in a profile to be broadcast on Sunday, that Shakil Afridi helped provide intelligence for the raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden’s presence in the compound. He has since been charged by Pakistan with treason. […]
After 20 long years in the public eye, Hillary Rodham Clinton can see the finish line. “It would be a — probably a good idea to just find out how tired I am,” she told a gathering of State Department employees Thursday. Sure, there likely will be talk all year about her running withPresident Obama as his running mate. […]
How would you like to go to a private liberal arts college that will give you a full-ride tuition scholarship for four years? Well, CBS News says Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is waiving the tuition for all its students, who enroll in the next three years. Read full story at CBS News
Mitt Romney has opened up a 9-point lead on Newt Gingrich in a new Florida poll, released just four days before the state’s GOP primary. The former Massachusetts governor now has 38% support from likely GOP voters, compared with 29% for Gingrich, in the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey. Ron Paul has 14% support and Rick […]
Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter wrote in a blog post published Thursday. It said even with the possibility of such restrictions, Twitter would not be able to […]
Six children in, we almost forgot that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have never made things official with an “I do.” But according to Pitt, Hollywood’s most revered couple may be heading down the aisle soon — much to the joy of their children. “We’d actually like to,” Pitt told The Hollywood Reporter when asked if he […]
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday vowed to build a Moon colony that he said could eventually become the 51st state. Speaking to Republicans on Florida, the former House Speaker explained that the “grandiose” idea would be possible because the government would fuel innovation by awarding prizes and incentives to private businesses. “At one […]
According billionaire investor George Soros , there's about to be an all-out class war. Speaking to Newsweek, Soros offered a word of warning: a period of “evil” is coming to the western world.
