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Standoff with Somali pirates continues with American captain still a hostage
Friday, April 10, 2009
The Somali pirates seized an American cargo ship a few days ago and while the rest of the crew escaped and took control of the ship, the captain, is still being held prisoner in a sma...
Spies stake a claim in the U.S. electrical grid
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
An exclusive story from the Wall Street Journal says that cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the syste...
Series of car bombs strike Baghdad
Monday, April 06, 2009
A series of six car bombs exploded in or near Baghdad on Monday, killing more than 30 people and wounding scores more. While three of the bombs struck markets in predominantly Shiite ...
March unemployment numbers show increase in job losses
Friday, April 03, 2009
New unemployment numbers out today reveal that the U.S. economy lost 663,000 jobs in March and jobless rate jumps to 8.5 percent, the highest since late 1983. The U.S. continued to sh...
David Sanger's guide to the G-20
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Our friend David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times and author of The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, is at the...
Tax evasion, tax resistance and tax rebellion
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Gandhi broke the law to oppose the salt tax. The early Americans railed against the tax on tea. From the first instance that taxes were levied, people have found ways to not pay, for ...
Presidents Obama and Medvedev meet today in London
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are meeting for the first time today. Obama plans to open negotiation today to draft a new arms control treaty that could ...
Update on the attacks in Pakistan
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Yesterday's strike in Lahore, Pakistan was aimed at killing and terrorizing future law enforcers, and demonstrated once again the militants’ ability to reach deep into the Pakistani h...
Rethinking Afghan reconstruction
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Delegates from more than 70 countries are in The Hague to discuss Afghan reconstruction. The big hope is that the 70 countries meeting there today will be able to breathe new life int...
Obama's new plan for Afghanistan
Friday, March 27, 2009
President Obama plans to announce an expansive new plan for Afghanistan in a speech at the White House this morning, committing thousands more troops and starting what's being called ...
Tax evasion: A crime and an act of conscience
Friday, March 27, 2009
Want to know how to avoid paying taxes on April 15? Jason Zengerle, a senior editor at The New Republic, might be able to give you some ideas— though he may not be able to tell you h...
Economic Recovery 101 with House Republican Whip Eric Cantor
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Congressional Republicans agree that President Obama's budget "spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much." So, what's the Republican argument for fiscal discipline in these...
Hunting asteroids before they hunt earth
Thursday, March 26, 2009
On Oct. 5 at an observatory on Mount Lemmon in Arizona an astronomer noticed a comet headed this way. He sent the coordinates to the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Cen...
Evolution and education with Texas State Board of Education Chair Don McLeroy
Thursday, March 26, 2009
The Texas Board of Education is in the midst of a major fight this week over a new science curriculum that's designed to challenge the principle of evolution. The Board will vote tomo...
Push back from both sides on Obama's budget
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Democrats are re-tooling President Obama’s budget this week, while the president is pressing Congress hard to preserve his priorities of health care, energy and education. Meanwhile, ...
Is the traditional press conference obsolete?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
President Obama worked to rally the country behind his economic agenda last night in a press conference that focused heavily on the budget and skimmed almost entirely over foreign pol...
Fighting a public opinion battle over the budget
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Democrats are meeting today to hash out preliminary steps towards finalizing a budget before the recess. Republicans are organizing opposition to a spending plan that many in their ra...
A critical look at the Tata Nano
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tiny, affordable cars may seem like a great idea for the environment and the pocketbook. But our guest Linda Blake says putting thousands of Tata Nanos on India's roads is actuall...
Judging market confidence amid the ups and downs
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
In these economic times, it's all about confidence. Markets responded with a surge of confidence to U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's announcement of a revised plan to help banks...
Are we torturing U.S. prisoners?
Monday, March 23, 2009
The United States holds at least 25,000 prisoners in long-term solitary confinement prisons across the country. They're called "Supermax" prisons, where prisoners are confined without...
