Ten Baptist workers to appear in Port-au-Prince court after attempting to take youngsters out of countryTen Americans will appear in court today in Port-au-Prince after attempting to take 34 children out of Haiti, saying that they were trying to rescue them.The Baptist aid workers, from the Idaho-based New Life Children’s Refuge, were arrested on Friday [...]
Earlier this week, President Obama decided to refocus his agenda on Americans jobs, especially small businesses.
Haitian police arrested 10 U.S. citizens after they tried to take 33 Haitian children out of the earthquake-stricken nation, authorities said Saturday.
A list of the celebrities that Americans most trust offers a clue to the astonishing faith they put in Glenn Beck and coIn a development believed to have caused Thursday’s international run on duct tape and tinned goods, an opinion poll this week suggested Fox News is the most trusted news operation in America. Dig [...]
The US media largely ignores Tony Blair’s evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, because Americans have lost interest in IraqSince the Chilcot inquiry discussed details of President Bush’s thinking before the invasion of Iraq, you might assume that Tony Blair’s appearance today would get wide coverage in the US media. But no.There has been some coverage, [...]
‘If they stayed 30 years I’d be happy!’ Haitians desperate for food, water and medicine look to Washington for helpOfficially, Haiti’s government is directing earthquake relief efforts but the hand-written sign in Delmas, one of Port-au-Prince’s devastated districts, told a different story: “Hello America! We need help here. Urgent! Thank you America!”The plea cut through [...]
Embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke won confirmation for a second term Thursday, but only by the closest vote ever for the crucial post and after withering criticism from lawmakers for bailing out Wall Street while other Americans suffer…
I let this stuff go 99% of the time, but sometimes I just can’t. Two early comments on my last piece deserve mention. First, this gem by MacRandall. Trying to disprove my assertion that “Republicans are least popular of all,” s/he produces a sentence that says: “A month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s showdown with [...]
President Barack Obama is pitching his $8 billion high-speed rail program to Americans as a jobs generator that will revitalize the domestic rail industry. But the full picture is more complicated.
Barack Obama must move quickly if he is to repeal the law denying gay Americans the right to serve in the armed forcesPresident Obama announced in his first state of the union address last night that this year he will “work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans [...]