Politics Under questioning from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kagan also defended her decision to limit military recruiting at Harvard while she was dean of the law school. Kagan, 50, is solicitor general and a former aide in the Clinton administration. Republicans have questioned her lack of experience as a judge and portrayed her as an activist more interested in politics than law
Politics The decision is fraught with risk for Obama, who faces the difficult choice of shaking up command of an unpopular and costly war just six months after ordering 30,000 more troops into the fight against the Taliban. McChrystal, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan and architect of Obama’s war strategy, was summoned back to Washington to explain his “enormous mistake” to the president, the White House said.
U.S. The suspects were stopped at a gate outside MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa and taken into custody after they were unable to show proper identification to enter the base, said Air Force spokeswoman Katherine Holt. She said military-style uniforms and weapons were discovered in the vehicle after the two were detained but added that she was unable to identify the exact type or number of weapons
