Federal authorities have indicted a 44-year-old Long Island man for allegedly operating an unlicensed money transfer business between the United States and Pakistan, officials announced Wednesday. Mohammad Younis is accused of helping arrange transfers
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Hawala Operator Charged in Times Square Bomb Attempt
A bill to amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to permit States to determine State residency for higher education purposes and to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain alien students who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.
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S.729 DREAM Act of 2009
As much of the nation focuses on Tuesday’s primaries in Delaware and elsewhere across the Northeast, the Connecticut Senate race pitting former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon (R) against state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) is becoming far more competitive than expected. Blumenthal led McMahon, a political newcomer who has already devoted tens of millions of her personal fortune to the bid, 51 percent to 45 percent according to a Quinnipiac University survey of 875 likely voters from Sept. 8-12. The margin of error was 3.3 points. “This is now a 6 point race among likely voters. With seven weeks to go and lots of money to be spent, anything can happen,” said Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz. “The question is whether Linda McMahon can ride the anti-establishment, anti-Democratic wave to victory in blue Connecticut, a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican for Senator since Lowell Weicker in 1982.” Schwartz continued: “President Barack Obama appears to be a drag on Blumenthal, even in Connecticut, where the President’s job approval rating is a negative 45 – 52 percent. Meanwhile, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee responded with a poll of its own that gives Blumenthal a much more comfortable lead, 54 percent to 39 percent. The poll was taken over the same time period. But the DSCC would not release the full survey, conducted by the Democratic polling firm Hamilton Campaigns. Selected portions of the poll of 800 likely voters taken Sept. 8-12 suggest that McMahon has significant challenges if she hopes to win the seat long held by retiring Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D). For example, just 48 percent of respondents had a favorable view of McMahon; and just 21 percent said they view the WWE favorably, according to the DSCC poll. McMahon led the wrestling organization for years before stepping aside to run for office. McMahon’s favorables/unfavorables are roughly the same in the Quinnipiac poll: 45 percent to 41 percent respectively; Blumenthal’s favorable/unfavorable rating registered at 55 percent to 39 percent. And 72 percent said Blumenthal has “the right kind of experience to be a United States Senator from Connecticut.” Just 39 percent said the same of McMahon. “For Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, an elected official with a 70 percent approval rating, this race is surprisingly close,” Schwartz said. “It is not that voters are wild about McMahon; her favorability rating is tepid. And many of her supporters are more anti-Blumenthal.”
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New Poll Shows Connecticut Senate Race Tightening
As the United States prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, a new report says that terrorist threats against the United States have fundamentally changed while American counter-terrorism strategies have stagnated. The
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Report: America Ill-Equipped to Face Evolving Islamic Terrorism Threat
EUGENE, Ore. – “There are no terrorism charges in this case.” So said attorneys from both the prosecution and defense teams during opening statements in United States v. Seda on Monday. Despite those words of caution, the bulk of Tuesday’s testimony
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Day Two in United States v. Seda
At the National Press Club today Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: “Congressional Republicans inside the Beltway are already popping the champagne bottles and say that they are going to seize control of the United States Congress. It is a premature celebration. And I can assure that you that despite the Washington summer political chatter, reports of the House Democrats’ demise are greatly exaggerated.”
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Van Hollen to GOP: We’re Not Dead Yet
Two prominent liberal commentators have come out against the Ground Zero mosque project. Christopher Hitchens, (who has criticized some arguments used by some mosque opponents) on Monday attacked Rauf’s “sinister belief that the United States was
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Hitchens, Hentoff Question Ground Zero Mosque
To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal Employees’ Retirement System, and for other purposes.
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H.R.1256 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
A Republican candidate in Kansas who drew fire for Tweeting a supporter’s racist blog post apologized and removed the link. The campaign of former RNC committeeman Mike Pompeo had tweeted, “Here’s a good read about the Team Pompeo campaign” yesterday afternoon. What followed denigrated the Democratic nominee, state Rep. Raj Goyle , who is of Indian heritage. “Just like his evil muslim communist USURPER comrad, barrack hussein obama, This goyle character is just another ‘turban topper’ we don’t need in congress or any political office that deals with the U.S. Constitution, Christianity and the United States of America!!!” the linked post said, according to Goyle’s campaign.
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Apology Accepted; Will Kansas Campaign Gaffe Blow Over?
An act to modernize the air traffic control system, improve the safety, reliability, and availability of transportation by air in the United States, provide for modernization of the air traffic control system, reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.
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H.R.1586 Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act