Check out this presidential fashion statement: Scottie hat, western shirt, baggy bike pants, presidential socks, and Crocs. Our good pal at Politico, Anne Schroeder, found this and diplomatically posted it without comment. But we couldn't help but wonder:Just what is Laura doing letting her husband out in public like this?
Diet pills are at center stage this week, with the first Food and Drug Administration-approved over-the-counter diet pill set to hit pharmacy shelves on Friday and the decision by an FDA advisory committee to flag rimonabant, a highly anticipated prescription diet drug sold in Europe, as unfit for approval.
AP - Hamas fighters overran two of the rival Fatah movement's most important security command centers in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, and witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen into the street and shot them to death execution-style.
AP - A federal judge said Thursday he will not delay a 2 1/2-year prison sentence for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the CIA leak case, a ruling that could send the former White House aide to prison within weeks.
Hamas fighters continue to seize control of key Fatah security installations across Gaza as the Palestinian government teeters on the brink of collapse. "I believe a state of emergency must be declared immediately," Palestinian legislator Saeb Erakat said. "This is a coup against the president, against the Palestinian people, and against the Palestinian cause."
Apparent retaliatory attacks in the aftermath of the bombing of the Al-Askariya Mosque -- a major Shiite shrine in Samarra -- have left six Sunni mosques badly damaged, police said Thursday.