U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech Tuesday morning at the National Institutes of Health and announcing new U.S. initiatives to address the global pandemic.
Tuesday is election day, with municipal and school board elections in many communities across the state (check the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website for information on whether there’s an election in your area).
An anonymous robocall is being sent to voters in Michigan with an ominous and inaccurate warning: Signing petitions could result in identity theft.
Blogging for Michigan has the audio, and presents this transcript:
This is an identity theft alert. Petitions are being circulated door-to-door and at public
I missed this over the weekend, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China will not block shipments of rare earth elements to the United States.
According to The Hill, Clinton said:
On the rare-earth minerals matter, the foreign minister, Minister Yang, clarified that China has no intention of withholding
Senate Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today asking her not to “prejudge” the outcome of an Obama administration review of a massive pipeline project that will stretch from Alberta, Canada to Texas.
Clinton, speaking in San Fransisco last week, suggested that the State Department, More…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will question Chinese officials this week about reports that the country is blocking shipments of key rare earth elements to the United States.
It’s been more than a week since The New York Times’ initial report of More…
Via Talking Points Memo, Kris Kobach, the Republican nominee for Kansas Secretary of State who is quickly making a name for himself as an anti-immigration hardliner, is hoping to win votes by claiming illegal immigrants are fraudulently registering to vote in large numbers in his state. “Voter fraud More…
Some Mexican politicians are not happy with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments yesterday comparing Mexico’s drug cartel problem to an insurgency and arguing for actions similar to those Colombia used to fight its drug trade.
Politico’s Laura Rozen catches Hillary Rodham Clinton indicating to our old friend Tavis Smiley that she doesn’t envision staying on as secretary of state for two terms. Nothing really surprising: Dean Rusk, I think, was the last secretary of state to serve for eight years during the Kennedy-Johnson More…
That was quite an image, seeing Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai announce that he’ll accept a runoff election. Well, not just that, but seeing him flanked by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who stopped in Kabul during a trip to Pakistan to discuss his More…
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