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Obama Says Afghan Strategy Will Include Path to Exit
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he is "very close" to deciding on a new course for the war in Afghanistan that will ...
Gen. Wesley Clark calls for exit from Afghanistan
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark -- the onetime Democratic candidate for president -- told Congress Tuesday in little-reported remarks that the United States should begin planning ...
Army Data Show Constraints on Troop Increase Potential
If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving ...
Paying Off the Warlords
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a ...
Top Democrats eye stock trade tax
House Democratic leaders are considering imposing a new tax on stock transactions to fund a jobs bill, leadership sources tell The Hill. Rep. Ed Perlmutter ...
Afghan minister accused of taking bribe
KABUL -- The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, ...
Failed cancer treatment doubly painful for widow
Jose Sanchez was desperate when he visited the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in January. The 49-year-old Waukegan man, diagnosed with gastric carcinoma, had been ...
Remarks by Richard L. Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Institute, Spotlight on the Jobs Crisis, Washington DC November 17, 2009
Let me start by telling you about a young woman who came to an event we held in northeastern Ohio two months ago. Her name ...
9/11 workers, first responders to rally for help in D.C.
WASHINGTON - First responders and Ground Zero workers are pleased Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is headed to New York to face justice - but they hope ...
One year later, gov't can't track TARP
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - One year ago, America's biggest banks were failing. And the government was more than willing to bail them out.We now know ...
Filmmaker urges Canadians to stand on guard against 'two Canadas' health care
TORONTO — Canadians need to stand on guard against creating two Canadas when it comes to health care - one for the rich and one ...
Afghanistan, Iraq among the world's most corrupt
BERLIN — Afghanistan and Iraq, countries that receive billions of dollars a year in international support, are among the world's most corrupt nations, a watchdog ...
Army tells its soldiers to 'bribe' the Taleban
British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday. Army commanders should also ...
AP POLL: Tax the rich to pay for health bill
WASHINGTON — When it comes to paying for a health care overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: Tax the rich. That finding from ...
Restore Glass-Steagall protections
This week marks an important anniversary that will go unnoticed in many corners. Ten years ago, a little known Depression-era law known as the Glass-Steagall ...
Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
Patients who lack health insurance are more likely to die from car accidents and other traumatic injuries than people who belong to a health plan ...
G.I. joe: Veterans-turned-baristas serve a strong brew
Reporting from Lakewood, Wash. - For an Army weary from war, they offer tea and sympathy -- along with double tall lattes, caramel macchiatos and ...
UK leaders fear anger of frustrated army families
Number 99 arrives tomorrow. The 100th repatriation procession to pass through Wootton Bassett may follow within the week. As the cortege containing the bodies of ...
Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo
WASHINGTON — When student Hemnecher Amen joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in ...
Ex-Marine recruiter admits to sex with Olympus High student
A former U.S. Marine Corps recruiter admitted Monday to having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female Olympus High School student. Trevor Adam Hooper, 27, ...
12 Afghans killed in attack on meeting with French
TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan — Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between ...
German minister 'shot at' during Afghan visit
BERLIN — A helicopter convoy carrying German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg came under fire from the ground during a recent surprise visit to troops ...
Your choice - the film or the fundraiser?
I saw Michael Moore's new film Capitalism - A Love Story last week and readers of this blog won't be surprised I'm giving it a ...
Head of the French army in Afghanistan narrowly escapes death in rocket attack
The head of the French army in Afghanistan narrowly escaped a Taleban rocket attack this morning which left four people dead and injured more than ...
Report: More Americans going hungry
The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has ...
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