News Source: Virginian-Pilot Online
| about 8 hours ago
The U.S. office overseeing billions of dollars for Afghanistan's rebuilding lacks leadership and focus at a time when aggressive, independent oversight of the country's reconstruction is more important than ever, three senators told President Barack
News Source: Voice of America
| about 8 hours ago
President Barack Obama is preparing to go to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. He says he is humbled by the award and not sure he has done enough to warrant such a high honor. A new public opinion poll in the United States shows a solid
News Source: Miami Herald
| about 8 hours ago
Rep. Joe Wilson, using his increased national profile from his "you lie!" yell at President Barack Obama, introduced a bill Tuesday requiring that a special board be set up to track the number of jobs created by the $787 billion economic stimulus
News Source: Politico
| about 8 hours ago
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) Tuesday expressed doubt that a new jobs bill could be done in the next two weeks. At his weekly meeting with reporters, Hoyer said it was “not necessarily essential” to introduce a jobs bill in the House
News Source: Reuters
| about 8 hours ago
Complaints of torture, murder and illegal detention by the Mexican army have jumped as soldiers have been dragged into a long, gruesome battle with powerful drug cartels, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Mexico's national human rights commission
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
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A US envoy heads to North Korea Tuesday to try to revive stalled negotiations on its nuclear weapons programme in the first high-level talks between the Obama administration and the communist state. After months of tensions marked by a North Korean
News Source: Jerusalem Post
| 1 day ago
Just two days after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu put into effect a total freeze on construction in the West Bank, members of the Israel branch of Democrats Abroad held a panel discussion in Tel Aviv about Israel's relations with US President
News Source: Seattle Times
| 1 day ago
Originally published Monday, December 7, 2009 at 4:36 PM Paul Krugman / Syndicated Columnist An affordable plan to save the planet — optimistic about Copenhagen Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions is affordable as well as essential, writes columnist