Category Archives: Death

Caution mutes US response to North Korea

By doris | Published: December 27, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s cautious response to the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il reflects unease and uncertainty about the leadership transition in the reclusive country that has confounded U.S. presidents for 60 years. North Korea, the “hermit kingdom,” has vexed the United States and its allies with war, [...]

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Former Chicago first lady Maggie Daley dies at 68

By doris | Published: November 25, 2011

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msn.com CHICAGO — Maggie Daley, the wife of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and a gracious promoter of the city’s cultural and educational programs, has died. She was 68. Maggie Daley, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, died Thursday night, family spokeswoman Jacquelyn Heard told The Associated Press. [...]

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Will the end of Gadhafi sway U.S. politics?

By doris | Published: October 22, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) — With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s dramatic demise this Thursday morning, the world is rid of a tyrant, and a free Libya has jumped a mile forward to stability (though, as CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports, there are still many more miles to go). Yet in America, we are [...]

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Funeral services for Betty Ford set for next week

By doris | Published: July 11, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com PALM SPRINGS — Funeral services for former first lady Betty Ford will begin Tuesday in Palm Springs and end with her burial in Grand Rapids, Mich., representatives of the Ford family said. Ford, wife of the late former President Gerald R. Ford, died Friday at age 93. A spokesman for the [...]

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Source: U.S. needs permission to interview bin Laden wives

By doris | Published: May 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Abbottabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan will allow the United States to question or take into custody the apparent wives of Osama bin Laden only if their “country of origin has been asked for permission,” a senior Pakistani intelligence source told CNN on Monday. One of bin Laden’s wives is from Yemen, [...]

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4 reasons to release bin Laden photos

By doris | Published: May 8, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — There are several good reasons to release the photographs of Osama bin Laden’s body: First, to end the debate in the world of conspiracy theory, one the administration’s countervailing story lines have helped fuel. As Charles Krauthammer recently said, “The Middle East is a place where conspiracies live. This [...]

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Bin Laden death not changing GOP hopefuls’ plansefuls’ plans

By doris | Published: May 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Republicans hoping to unseat President Barack Obama say they see al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s death as a welcome development but no reason to change political strategy. While Obama almost surely will get a boost in his poll numbers, advisers for the still-forming field of GOP candidates expect that [...]

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US attorney general: bin Laden operation lawful

By doris | Published: May 3, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that the killing of Osama bin Laden marks historic progress by the U.S. government in protecting the American people from terrorism. Holder’s comments to the House Judiciary Committee marked the first appearance before Congress by an Obama administration Cabinet official since [...]

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Lawmakers, grieving parents push federal standards for teen licenses

By doris | Published: March 8, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Flanked by parents whose children were killed in automobile accidents, congressional lawmakers Tuesday again launched a campaign for federal licensing standards for teenage drivers. Holding a poster-sized photograph of his daughter Michelle — a fatality at the age of 15 — a sobbing Ray Sanderbeck of Medina, Ohio, [...]

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Gates apologizes for latest civilian deaths in Afghanistan

By doris | Published: March 7, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday offered his personal apology to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for the killings of nine Afghan boys last week in a NATO-led helicopter attack targeting insurgents, saying the incident “breaks our hearts.” Karzai responded at the joint appearance with the visiting Gates [...]

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R. Sargent Shriver remembered as idealist

By doris | Published: January 22, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com POTOMAC, Md. — R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s — an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure. At his funeral Mass on Saturday, mourners from philanthropist and musician [...]

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Foreman: Raging Arizona

By doris | Published: January 13, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — Here’s the thing: Blaming Arizona is easy. In the wake of the terrible shooting at that congressional town hall meeting, it is simple to point to a rampant culture of easy gun access, intolerance, and anti-government fever and say, “Sure, this man was unbalanced, but the wild winds of [...]

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