Farrakhan supports planned mosque near ground zero

September 2nd, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday an Islamic community center and mahometan temple planned immediate ground cipher should subsist built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "Why then should a mosque, a cultural center, not exist constructed a small in number blocks away?" ...

Summary Box: Program puts tax refunds on plastic

September 2nd, 2010
FASTER REFUNDS: The Treasury Department is exploring ways to help the masses without rivage accounts collect their make demands upon refunds more nimbly. A pilot program launching next year will permit some consumers get the money on cards, more willingly than waiting for paper checks. It could expand from there. SAVING MONEY: Treasury says consumers will save coin because ...

Peace envoy announces second round of peace talks

September 2nd, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's special ambassador in opposition to Mideast peace says the leaders of Israel and the Palestinians concluded a productive first make spherical of peace negotiations. Former Sen. George Mitchell told reporters that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to convene a second round of talks Sept. 14-15 in ...

White House defends Obama’s ‘mainstream’ religion

September 2nd, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama is a "committed, mainstream Christian" - counteracting to the claims of Fox News Channel throng Glenn Beck. Beck recently claimed that Obama practices a reading of Christianity that is not recognized by greatest in number people. Beck says this "liberation theology" is all about "oppressors" and ...

New postage stamp honors Mother Teresa

September 2nd, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mother Teresa is being recognized despite her humanitarian work with the issuance of a newly come U.S. postage stamp. The 44-cent print showing a portraiture of the Roman Catholic nun is being released at a ceremony Sunday at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Mother Teresa won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for ...