Bhutto’s Son to Lead Party From England

Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party announced today that her son, 19-year-old Oxford University student, Bilawal Zardari, has become the titular head of the party. Zardari’s father, Asif Zardari and Bhutto confidant Makhdoom Amin Fahim have been named co-chairmen.

GOP Pols Build Asian Bloc in Queens

Traffic along Union Turnpike, which cut Kew Gardens and Kew Gardens Hills into two, virtually indistinguishable neighborhoods buzzed quietly while shop owners and passersby baked in the afternoon sunlight. With less than a week before the November 6th elections, the North and South sides of the turnpike, lined by Chinese restaurants, take-out sushi joints, storefront [...]

VA Secretary: Iraq Casualties Could be Worse

On July 7, 2005, Sergeant First Class Jeffrey E. Mittman was conducting operations in his Humvee when an improvised explosive device (IED) blew up. The explosion launched a projectile though the windshield. The object sheared off Mittman’s nose and lips, knocked out all of his teeth and blinded him. Mittman was sent back [...]