Articles from 'February 2010'
NATO issues directive restricting night raids
KABUL — American troops knocked on the door, and before the Afghan family could find the key to let them in, the soldiers broke it ...
McConnell predicts no Senate GOP support for health care bill
Washington – Just days after a bipartisan, televised 7-hour White House summit on health care reform, the leading Republican in the Senate predicted that his ...
‘Time Is Up’ to Pass Obama’s Health-Care Plan, Pelosi Says
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said “time is up” for Congress to pass health-care legislation and that lawmakers in her chamber need to figure out the ...
Obama ready to move forward on health-care reform
Declaring that it is "time for us to act" on health-care reform, President Obama said Saturday that he is willing to compromise with Republicans to ...
Lawmakers brace for reconciliation showdown
Washington (CNN) - With last week's health care summit showing no sign of getting either side to budge, lawmakers Sunday staked out positions in the ...
Families USA: lack of health care kills 68 per day
According to a report released Thursday by a nonprofit consumer group, failure to enact health care reform this year will lead in the next decade ...
Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists
The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according ...
Oakland parking ticket policy called 'not fair'
Oakland parking officers were ordered to avoid enforcing neighborhood parking violations in two of the city's wealthier neighborhoods but told to continue enforcing the same ...
Soldier in "Coming Home" series dies after surgery
Michael de Yoanna first met John Needham when the troubled soldier stepped off a plane near Fort Carson, Colo., in November 2007. De Yoanna didn't ...
Russia blames Nato for heroin surge from Afghanistan
The head of Russia's federal drug control agency has accused Nato of not doing enough to curb the production of heroin in Afghanistan. Victor Ivanov ...
Chile Quake Is One of the Biggest in a Century
The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off coastal Chile in the early hours of the morning is one of the biggest temblors anywhere in more ...
"Post-Disaster Needs Assessment" Whose Needs? Whose Assessment?
The Haitian government has been largely silent since the January 12 earthquake. Publicly, that is. Who knows what officials are saying behind closed doors to ...
Cop Walks Into a Bar And...Arrests You. For Having a Drink.
LATE ON A BALMY Saturday night last June, six Fort Worth cops and two officers from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission went looking for trouble. ...
'Capitalism: A Love Story' Opens in Great Britain and Ireland
Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' opens today to rave reviews in Great Britain and Ireland:Andrew O'Hagan, London Evening Standard:He never loses his touch as ...
The Attack on Climate-Change Science
Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more ...
Leahy Grills DOJ Official On Missing John Yoo Emails
At the hearing on the Justice Department torture memos report today, Sen. Patrick Leahy demanded to know whether the DOJ would investigate the missing John ...
Rep. Louise Slaughter makes remarks on preexisting conditions at White House health summit
SLAUGHTER: Thank you, Mr. President. And thanks to all of my colleagues for (inaudible). I am pretty succinct and pretty timely. I will not take ...
The Grasses of Ginen
The downtown, around Grand Rue in the old part of the city, looks like a modern-day variant of Pompei. Nothing but ruins. Here the tall ...
Gold-Medal Coverage?
Competing in the Olympics comes with many obvious perks, like the honor of representing one’s country on the international stage and lucrative endorsements. But when ...
The Missing Voices at the Healthcare Summit
President Obama and congressional Republicans arrived at the White House health care summit with talking points -- not just for the summit itself but for ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes closing remarks at White House health summit
OBAMA: Thank you, John. DINGELL: Thank you, Mr. President. OBAMA: Speaker Pelosi wants to say a brief word. John, do you want to say anything ...
Obama health arsenal includes downsized option
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The array of healthcare overhaul options being considered by President Barack Obama includes a downsized plan that would cover only 15 million ...
An American Cry for Help
OLBERMANN: Finally tonight, a Special Comment about health care reform and tomorrow's summit at Blair House. If I prove to have trouble getting through this, ...
After Long Wait and Protests, Laid-Off Quad City Workers Reach Settlement
Quad City Die Casting workers fought hard last summer to try to keep their plant – seemingly still profitable – open in the face of ...
As Obama Calls for More Nuclear Power, Vermont Hits Reverse
President Obama has identified nuclear power as a key source of clean energy for the future, but many of his supporters in Vermont appear headed ...
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