Category Archives: U.S.A.

Young adults key to financing health reform

By doris | Published: September 16, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com As health-care legislation advances through Congress, the young adults who were so vital to President Obama’s election are emerging as a significant beneficiary of his top domestic priority, but they are also likely to play a major role in funding any reform. In a campaign-style rally Thursday at the University of [...]

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Former White House press secretary Jody Powell dead at 65

By doris | Published: September 15, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Former White House press secretary Jody Powell has died, a spokesman for the Carter Center said Monday. Powell, 65, died Monday of an apparent heart attack, Carter Center spokesman Tony Clark told CNN. “I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jody Powell,” said Robert Gibbs, press [...]

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Tea party activists rally at U.S. Capitol

By doris | Published: September 13, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Marchers en route to the rally held no feelings in check as they waved signs reading, “Proud member of the angry mob,” “I didn’t vote for this Obamanation,” “Fire the czars” and “You represent us, not rule us.” Nazi imagery and a poster of President Obama as an African witch doctor [...]

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Obama on 9/11: ‘No words can ease the ache of your hearts’

By doris | Published: September 12, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Obama laid a wreath of white flowers at the Pentagon, where 184 people lost their lives when a hijacked jet smashed into the military icon outside the nation’s capital. “No words can ease the ache of your hearts,” Obama told a crowd of relatives and friends standing under umbrellas in a [...]

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Obama about to pull the ‘trigger’ on health care?

By doris | Published: September 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Surrounded by liberals demanding a government-run public option and centrist Democrats — along with Republicans — who want to dump the option, Obama just might have his finger on something that can get him through this health care showdown: the “trigger” option. The idea would give insurance companies a defined period [...]

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Senator signals possible health care compromise

By doris | Published: September 7, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The comment by Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska on CNN’s “State of the Union” signaled a possible compromise on the most contentious issue in efforts to overhaul the nation’s ailing health-care system. The so-called trigger mechanism would create a public insurance option if a new health-care bill fails to meet certain [...]

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Clinton, 2 journalists leave North Korea for U.S.

By doris | Published: August 5, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SEOUL, South Korea – Former President Bill Clinton brought two freed U.S. journalists out of North Korea Wednesday following rare talks with reclusive leader Kim Jong Il, who pardoned the women sentenced to hard labor for entering the country illegally. Euna Lee and Laura Ling were heading back to the U.S. [...]

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Bill Clinton makes unannounced N. Korea visit

By doris | Published: August 4, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SEOUL, South Korea – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made an unannounced visit to North Korea on Tuesday on a trip seen as a mission to win the release of two jailed American reporters and to ease tensions over Pyongyang’s recent nuclear defiance. North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator and a high-ranking [...]

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U.S. only foreign military remaining in Iraq

By doris | Published: August 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com BAGHDAD – The war in Iraq was truly an American-only effort Saturday after Britain and Australia, the last of the United States’ international partners, pulled out. Little attention was paid in Iraq to what effectively ended the so-called coalition of the willing, with the U.S. — as the leader of Multi-National [...]

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Study: U.S. lacks strategy to fight arms smuggling into Mexico

By doris | Published: June 19, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com In Mexico last year, drug violence was blamed for the deaths of 78 soldiers and more than 6,000 others. This year, the drug violence has claimed more than 2,900 lives, according to the newspaper El Universal. Much of the violence has affected the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the last five years, about [...]

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Obama lacks key leaders in drug cartel crackdown

By doris | Published: June 6, 2009

Full Story At Obama lacks key leaders in drug cartel crackdown – Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has unveiled a broad new strategy to fight violent Mexican drug cartels on the border. It only lacks the presidential choices to run the top U.S. agencies battling drugs, border smuggling and illegal guns. The White [...]

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North Korea’s bomb test seen as troubling progress

By doris | Published: May 27, 2009

Full Story At  News.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Based on what appears to be a successful test of an atomic bomb more powerful than the one North Korea detonated in 2006, former U.S. government and independent analysts say the North’s technical skills are improving slightly. Of greater concern, according to national security adviser James L. Jones, is [...]

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