News Source: Fox News
| about 16 hours ago
President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term. Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and even Richard Nixon all had higher approval ratings 10-and-a-
News Source: Truthdig
| about 17 hours ago
Even if President Barack Obama doesn’t deliver the change he promised, at least he could restore basic oversight in key financial areas. The need was highlighted by a story out of Cleveland last week. On Friday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 1 day ago
36:07 PM PST Updated: 12/07/2009 08:36:08 PM PST It was on the deck of that mighty battleship that the Japanese, who attacked the U.S. Navy port in Hawaii 68 years ago Monday, formally surrendered in 1945. Now the retired battleship is a floating
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 1 day ago
In Potsdam, Germany, debate rises over a memorial that marks President Harry Truman's 1945 decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Handsome villas on Karl Marx street here look out on the bending Griebnitzsee River. In one villa,
News Source: Courier & Press
| 2 days ago
World War I financially wiped out the then-advancing progressive movement in the 1920s. Harry Truman's Square Deal was finished off by the cost of the Korean conflict. Lyndon Johnsons Great Society fell financial victim to Vietnam. Each soldier who
News Source: Palestine Chronicle
| 3 days ago
Ben Gurian '…realized that the holy book could be made into a secular national text, serve as a central repository of ancient collective imagery, help forge the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants into a unified people, and tie the younger
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 3 days ago
How Marines saved Seoul in 1950 Sunday, December 06, 2009 Few Americans today are likely to react to the names Pusan and Inchon, a sad truth that is testimony to just how forgotten the Forgotten War is. Yet in their way Pusan and Inchon are as
News Source: Magic City Morning Star
| 4 days ago
TV channel 11 in Toledo OH (CBS) begins broadcasting 1959 Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests 1960 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium 1966 "I Do! J C Penney Golf Classic 1993 Newhart actor William Sanderson (47) weds