http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ News from CovenantNews.com en-us editor@covenantnews.com 2011-09-28T17:11:02-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076401.html Undercover FBI agents arrested a U.S. citizen Wednesday in connection with a plot to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol using large, remote-controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives. Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, was also charged with attempting to provide... 76401@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-09-28T17:11:02-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076384.html WASHINGTON — The United States faced increasing pressure on Tuesday as the Palestinian quest for statehood gained support from Turkey and other countries, even as the Obama administration sought an 11th-hour compromise that would avoid a confrontation at the United... 76384@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-09-14T11:46:27-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076377.html Seeking to boost a slumping economy along with his hopes for re-election, President Obama on Thursday night implored Congress to pass a $450 billion jobs plan that he says will give an array of tax cuts to small businesses that... 76377@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-09-08T22:20:51-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076373.html Michele Bachmann captured the famed Iowa straw poll in Ames Saturday, reaching a high-profile benchmark in her meteoric rise to a top-tier presidential candidate." Click Here For The Full Story......... 76373@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-08-13T20:15:07-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076372.html Test could make or break Republican presidential candidates Associated Press AMES, Iowa — Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann, their presidential hopes on the line, made last-minute appeals Friday along with a slew of other Republican contenders ahead of a big... 76372@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-08-13T11:34:02-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076360.html First Lady Michelle Obama’s trip to South Africa and Botswana last week cost taxpayers well over half a million dollars, possibly in the range of $700,000 or $800,000, according to an analysis by White House Dossier. Click Here For The... 76360@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-28T09:15:51-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076359.html First Lady Michelle Obama’s trip to South Africa and Botswana last week cost taxpayers well over half a million dollars, possibly in the range of $700,000 or $800,000, according to an analysis by White House Dossier. Click Here For The... 76359@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-27T15:41:26-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076351.html The New York Times reports today, citing unnamed US officials, that a cellphone recovered after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden shows that one of his trusted couriers was in touch with a Pakistani militant group that, in turn,... 76351@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-24T12:51:36-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076330.html The surprising poll results were revealed Saturday as several Republican presidential hopefuls made their way to New Orleans to appeal to southern conservatives. Paul (R-Texas) won nearly 40 percent of the vote while Huntsman, former governor of Utah, nabbed nearly... 76330@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-19T13:55:18-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076329.html A Tripoli apartment building near a school is destroyed, killing 9 people and injuring 18 others. Libya blames NATO, which confirms that planes were operating above the city at the time of the alleged attack. Click Here For The Full... 76329@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-19T13:53:46-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076322.html Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, who on Wednesday went to a U.S. court in an effort to stop President Obama’s troop deployment in Libya, also has told the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to look into whether NATO’s bombing... 76322@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-15T16:01:05-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076306.html The Gingrich campaign has collapsed so rapidly, so abruptly, and so seemingly hopelessly that it seems incredible that anybody could ever have thought of Newt Gingrich as a serious candidate for president. Click Here For The Full Story......... 76306@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-11T18:45:18-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076304.html BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly criticized NATO nations on Friday for what he said were shortages in military spending and political will, warning of “a dim if not dismal future” unless more member nations scaled up their... 76304@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-11T14:38:03-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076303.html Bilderberg: The Uber-Powerful Global Elite Meet Behind Closed Doors in St. Moritz The Bilderberg group is one of the world's most famous clubs, it gathers bankers, politicians, industrialists, media moves and shakers, scholars and billionaires in a different location each... 76303@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-10T18:57:49-05:00 http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/076299.html Dhabi (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced an additional $26 million in aid for war victims Thursday at an international coalition meeting aimed at charting the course of a post Moammar-Gadhafi Libya. But in the North African... 76299@http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/ 2011-06-09T12:05:17-05:00