The Pennsylvania primary election on Tuesday saw a decisive victory for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) over Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), 55 to 45 percent. Obama still leads in the popular vote, the delegate count and funding. The next primaries will take place in Indiana and North Carolina, May 6.
The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that the two military commanders most closely associated with President George W. Bush’s current strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan would be promoted and continue their responsibilities into the next presidential administration. Gen. David H. Petraeus, currently the senior commander in Iraq, will head all military affairs in the Middle East and Central Asia. Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, who just completed a term as Petraeus’s deputy, would succeed him as senior commander in Iraq.
On Thursday, a federal judge convicted actor Wesley Snipes to a maximum of three years in prison for willful failure to file income taxes. Snipes was sentenced to an additional year of supervised release, and he will pay up to $17 million in back taxes as well as penalties and interest. He was first found guilty of the three misdemeanor counts of failing to file taxes on Feb.1. At the time, Snipes was also facing charges of felony conspiracy, tax fraud and three additional counts of failure to file, all for which the jury acquitted him.
Pakistan’s government and most militant tribes are negotiating over a 15-point accord that would end hostilities in the nation’s turbulent border area. The accord calls for an end to militant activity and the return of prisoners of war on the tribes’ part, in exchange for withdrawal of the military from tribal regions on the government’s part. Senior political leaders and the military are backing the accord, and tribal militant leader Baitullah Mehsud has ordered his fighters to cease activity while negotiations are underway.
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