The religious leader behind plans for an Islamic center near New York’s ground zero told “Larry King Live” that moving it to another location would embolden Islamic radicals. FULL STORY | BELIEF BLOG: ISLAM COVERAGE
Tagged another-location, behind-plans, center-near, full, ground-zero, islam, islamic, larry-king, location, religious-leader, storyMGM Resorts defended its safety practices Wednesday after amateur video surfaced showing a lion attacking its trainer inside its habitat at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, as horrified visitors to the hotel looked on.
Tagged a-lion-attacking, after-amateur, defended-its, grand, habitat-at-the, horrified-visitors, hotel, looked-on-, mgm, safety-practices, the-hotel, vegas, video-surfacedThe smart money in Washington and Chicago, Illinois, says it’s all but a certainty that within weeks Rahm Emanuel will throw his hat into the ring to replace retiring Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. So the parlor game over who will replace Emanuel as White House chief of staff has already kicked into high gear.
Tagged chicago-mayor, into-the-ring, parlor, ring, smart-money, the-parlor, white, within-weeksThe public may have seen the last video images of the failed blowout preventer from the BP oil well disaster, as authorities expressed possible security concerns.
Tagged last, oil-well, security-concerns-, the-last, video-imagesSecretary of State Hillary Clinton used a foreign policy talk to weigh in on hot button political issues Wednesday, slamming a Florida pastor for his “disgraceful” plan to burn the Quran and strongly criticizing George W. Bush’s fiscal record.
Tagged clinton, fiscal-record-, florida, foreign-policy-, george, pastor-for, political-issues, quran, wednesdayThe Military Religious Freedom Foundation is fighting fire with new Qurans.
Tagged fighting-fire, freedom, freedom-foundation, military, military-religious, qurans, with-newBritish TV host Piers Morgan will take over Larry King’s prime-time hour with “a candid, in-depth newsmaker interview program” starting in January, CNN announced Wednesday.
Tagged cnn, in-depth-newsmaker, interview-program, january, larry, larry-king, piers, piers-morgan, prime-time-hour, wednesday, will-take, withU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the planned burning of Qurans on the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States as criticism mounts from Muslims around the world.
Tagged around-the-world, attacks-on-the, clinton, criticism-mounts, has-condemned, qurans, state, state-hillary, the-2001, the-planned, united, united-states, worldAs President Obama heads to Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday to roll out a set of comprehensive proposals aimed at fixing the economy, top aides are knocking down suggestions that politics and the midterms are driving this effort.
Tagged aimed-at-fixing, and-the, are-knocking, cleveland, down-suggestions, economy, effort, fixing-the, midterms, ohio-on-wednesday, proposals-aimed, roll-out, top-aidesAuthorities have begun an investigation after a threatening message was found scrawled on the lavatory mirror of a Thai Airways plane, the Transportation Security Administration said.
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