Category Archives: Support

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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Wife of Las Vegas mayor wins race to replace him

By doris | Published: June 13, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAS VEGAS — Carolyn Goodman, the wife of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, will be the next mayor of Sin City after winning 61 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election. The first lady won a race that pitted the Goodman brand against a longtime elected official whose eagerness and grass [...]

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U.S. can break addiction to imported oil

By doris | Published: June 6, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Argonne, Illinois (CNN) — Nobody likes soaring gas prices — not motorists, not consumers, not business owners, not elected officials. Now, even a Saudi prince, whose family’s massive wealth is built on oil, is complaining about the high price of gasoline. Recently. Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria [...]

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Kerry’s star rises with global conflicts

By doris | Published: May 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Whenever a conflict pops up around the world, he has become the go-to guy, either rolling up his sleeves in the Senate or flying from hot spot to hot spot. John Kerry is, after all, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, holder of one of 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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Budget bill add-on would impact wolves

By doris | Published: April 14, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A rider in the budget bill to keep the federal government in operation has triggered fury among some wildlife groups because it would remove certain wolves from the endangered species list. The attachment affects gray wolf populations in Montana and Idaho. “Right now, Montana’s wolf population is out of [...]

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Census data favors Obama in key states

By doris | Published: April 2, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com The next America is arriving ahead of schedule. And it could rattle assumptions about the coming presidential election. Last week’s release of national totals from the 2010 census showed that the minority share of the population increased over the past decade in every state, reaching levels higher than demographers anticipated almost [...]

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Obama: U.S. ‘stands ready to help’ Japan

By doris | Published: March 12, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama said the United States “stands ready to help the Japanese people” slammed by a destructive tsunami. In a statement issued Friday, Obama said he instructed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be prepared to help Hawaii and other U.S. regions “that could be affected” by [...]

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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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Pelosi, Democrats prepare to relinquish power in the House

By doris | Published: January 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Nancy Pelosi, who made history as the first female Speaker of the House, ends her tenure this week as a new Republican majority prepares to take power Wednesday. Led by incoming speaker John Boehner, the GOP has pledged to roll back many of the reforms implemented by the Obama [...]

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Obama makes 6 recess appointments

By doris | Published: December 31, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Honolulu, Hawaii (CNN) — Taking time out from his Hawaiian vacation to assert some executive authority, President Barack Obama on Wednesday used a series of recess appointments to override Republican objections to several nominees. Obama used his constitutional power to appoint six people who have had their nominations pending for an [...]

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Obama administration, Congress brace for new political reality

By doris | Published: December 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — A new political reality hits Washington next week, with the first split Congress since 2004 raising questions about whether the bipartisan cooperation of the recently concluded lame-duck session can continue. Conventional wisdom says the shift from one party controlling both chambers, as Democrats have done since 2006, to [...]

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