Today President Barack Obama will unveil a new U.S. plan for winning the eight-year war in Afghanistan. There is expected to be a substantial troop increase, while also mapping out a path to bring America’s military involvement in Afghanistan to an end. President Obama has described Afghanistan as the war the United States cannot afford [...]
Military and police in the Philippines are searching for a southern governor and his militia after 21 people, including journalists, family and supporters of his political opponent were found dead. More bodies are expected to be uncovered. Authorities discovered the bodies of at least 30 people who had been kidnapped early today in the southern [...]
Radovan Karadzic is allegedly responsible for the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebenica in 1995. He is in The Hague now for charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The charges are genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. Karadzic is accused of leading four years of ethnic cleansing [...]
President Obama was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. There seemed to be difficulty in accepting the idea that the Nobel was given more for his aspirations rather than his achievements just nine months into his term. Commentators and politicians all over the map were denouncing the award as “absurd.”
President Obama won the Nobel [...]
Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida says he will resign from the Senate as soon as a replacement can be delegated. Martinez is the only Hispanic Republican in the Senate. In a letter to supporters, Martinez says he’s stepping down early for personal reasons.
In a written statement Martinez explained, “My priorities have always been my [...]
Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed today as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice and just the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. She was confirmed on a 68 to 31 vote, where all 31 votes against Sotomayor came from Republican party.
She will be replacing Justice David Souter, who will be retiring. A [...]
Former President Bill Clinton left North Korea with the two U.S. journalists who had been jailed in North Korea, a spokesman for the Former President said. The journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee are on there way to Los Angeles where they will join their families.
Ling and Lee were on news assignment for Al Gore’s [...]
There has been talk that under President Obama there might be tax increase on the middle class which is contradictory to what the President had said during his campaign.
President Obama said that he intended to stand by his promise to not increase taxes on families making less than $250,000.
“The president made a commitment in the [...]
The House has voted to approve an additional $2 billion into the “cash for clunkers” car purchase program. The bill was approved on a vote of 316-109.
Called the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), is a U.S. federal program intended to help U.S. citizens purchase a new, more fuel efficient vehicle when trading in [...]