As you may know, President Obama will address the nation Tuesday night, telling the world he will send more troops to Afghanistan but also that he’ll demand the Karzai government stop the massive corruption going on over there. I mean, we simply cannot have American service people dying so Afghan …

Crime doesn’t pay, and neither does stopping one. A Seattle bank teller learned that lesson the hard way last week when he thwarted a would-be robbery — and got fired for bucking company policy. Jim Nicholson was working at a Key Bank branch on Tuesdaywhen a man wearing a beanie …

A quick trip around Hannity’s America… Oops! I Meant $9 Trillion! Brace yourselves, everyone: Tuesday the White House and the Congressional Budget Office will release its 10-year deficit projections. It turns out the White House was forced to revise its original estimates because team Obama’s math was, well, a little …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Hockey Mom Defense Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin has fired back at David Letterman in their continuing feud over remarks the late-night comic made about Palin and her daughter. The former vice presidential nominee today called Letterman’s comments “degrading.” (BEGIN CLIP) GOVERNOR …

NEW YORK – As the presidential election draws ever closer, rock, pop and country stars are amping up their efforts to strike a chord with voters and get fans to tune into the political process. The list of singers crooning about the government, elections and voting is growing fast. To …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The images were shocking. A trench with piles of clothed bodies packed tightly together. Men, women, little children. Even unborn children. Some blindfolded. Some with their hands bound. All slaughtered in cold blood by the henchmen of former Iraqi dictatorSaddam Hussein (search). All of this horror was …

ROME – The Italian Navy is resuming exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, including near the coast of Libya, amid concerns about rapidly deteriorating security in the North African nation. The exercise will begin on Monday. It includes anti-submarine, anti-aircraft and anti-ship training operations. The exercise was suspended for a year …

GENEVA – With the opening of the inaugural European Games in Baku 100 days away, human rights groups have called on host nation Azerbaijan to release political prisoners held on “trumped up” charges. Amnesty International released a report citing “the mounting persecution of government critics, detained under false charges.” Human …

BANGUI, Central African Republic – Central African Republic’s president says authorities are in negotiations to secure the release of a French aid worker and her Central African colleague who were kidnapped this week. A foreign U.N. staffer was also briefly held this week by a militia group. The spate of …

BERLIN – Germany’s ver.di trade union says private security personnel at the country’s Duesseldorf and Cologne-Bonn airports will stage a one-day warning strike Thursday in an ongoing dispute over wages. Union representative Andrea Becker told the dpa news agency Wednesday that after three unsuccessful rounds of talks, ver.di hopes to …