The news from Iraq keeps getting worse. On the
heels of the insurgent takeover of Mosul, military experts now say
that Iraq’s Al Qaeda offshoot appears to have “grown into a
military organization that is no longer conducting terrorist
activities exclusively but is
conducting conventional military operations.” Meanwhile,
President Barack Obama is considering a new round of
military action in Iraq.
- According to a new poll, Barack Obama’s approval ratings have
hit a new low. He is now as
unpopular as George W. Bush.
- Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the captured U.S. soldier recently swapped
for five Taliban fighters held at Guantanamo, is
back on American soil.
- Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists
are battling in the southern Ukrainian port city of
Mariupol.
- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, currently out
promoting her new memoir, had an
ill-tempered exchange with National Public Radio over her
“evolving” views on gay marriage, including the uncomfortable fact
that her husband, President Bill Clinton, signed the Defense of
Marriage Act into law. “I think you are trying to say that I used
to be opposed and now I am in favor and I did it for political
reasons,” Clinton complained to NPR host Terry Gross.
- Violent protests
broke out in Sao Paulo as the 2014 World Cup got underway on
Thursday.
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