Apr 21, 2011 by Brian Montopoli CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. Despite Obama administration warnings that failing to do so would devastate the economy, a clear majority of Americans say they oppose raising the debt limit, a new CBS News/New [...]

By BIANNA GOLODRYGA (@biannagolodryga) and JIM AVILA (@JimAvilaABC) April 22, 2011 From coast to coast, in big cities and small towns, gas prices keep going up and up. President Obama announced Thursday the Justice Department is putting together a team to investigate possible fraud or price manipulation in the oil market. In Reno, Nev., prices [...]

Apr 21, 2011 The number of criminal aliens incarcerated in California rose to 102,795 in 2009, a 17 percent increase since 2003, federal auditors reported Thursday. This isn’t cheap. Nationwide, the Government Accountability Office reports, it costs well over $1.1 billion a year for states to imprison criminal aliens — those who committed a crime [...]

Felicity Carus in San Francisco guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 April 2011 11.07 BST Apple has come bottom of the most comprehensive green league table of technology companies because of its heavy reliance on “dirty data” centres. The list, which is compiled by Greenpeace and released in San Francisco on Thursday, shows that the company relies heavily [...]

Apr 21, 2011 Motorcade left the Intercontinental Hotel at 9 am local and arrived at the St. Regis for President Obama’s last Bay area fundraiser. A couple dozen demonstrators are on a corner across the street from the hotel. They have signs – “Yes We Cannabis” and “Protect Marijuana Patients Rights” – and are chanting [...]

By Phil Stewart | Reuters – Thu, 21 Apr, 2011 4:47 PM EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The United States will provide Pakistan with 85 small “Raven” drone aircraft, a U.S. military official told Reuters, a key step to addressing Islamabad’s calls for access to U.S. drone technology. The official, speaking on Thursday on condition of [...]

Apr 21, 2011 U.S. President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drones in Libya, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. Gates told CNN the unmanned Predators would allow for “some precision capability” against the forces of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and will offer a “modest contribution” to NATO efforts to support [...]

By KIRK JOHNSON Published: April 21, 2011 OKLAHOMA CITY — Investigations have concluded that President Obama was, in fact, born in Hawaii in 1961, as he has always said. Just this week, on the news program “Good Morning America” on ABC, George Stephanopoulos produced a copy of the president’s Certification of Live Birth, causing a [...]

“At an economic town hall this week, President Obama blamed “speculators” for rising oil prices. He should have mentioned the Fed and his own Treasury, which have encouraged the world to invest in hedges against the falling dollar. Chairman Ben Bernanke and Mr. Geithner have deliberately pursued a policy of unprecedented monetary and spending stimulus [...]

The world tries to protect itself from U.S. monetary policy. Apr 21, 2011 WSJ Members of the International Monetary Fund emerged from their huddle in Washington last weekend resolved to keep every option open to slow the flood of dollars pouring into their countries, including capital controls. That’s a dangerous game, given the need for [...]