Source: Reuters NIZHNYAYA ALARCHA, Kyrgyzstan, April 20 (Reuters) - Kyrgyz security forces confronted a crowd massing on the outskirts of the capital Bishkek on Tuesday where looters have attacked homes belonging to ...
Source: Reuters CANBERRA, April 20 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Tuesday he had reached agreement with all but one of the nation's states on major health funding reform which he hopes will ...
AP - With Utah running out of big bodies, Deron Williams carried an even bigger load in leading the Jazz to a 114-111 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night in Game 2 of their Western Conference playoffs.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said at Columbia University that a military strike on Iran over its nuclear enrichment activities would be his "last option." He makes an excellent point, too often overlooked. In some instances the price of doing something is just about as high as the price of doing nothing. A U.S. strike on Iran would risk throwing Iraq and Afghanistan into chaos, with our troops in the midst of it.
Remember when people used to peacefully march on Washington to show their support for a cause? Oh ho ho, only hippies want peace, America. Real patriots bring guns. And you're invited:
How many times will the Democrats fall prey to the same Republican strategy? There is nothing subtle about the Republican approach to frustrating reform, whether in healthcare, banking regulation or climate change. Scarcely anything could be more obvious, indeed, than Mitch McConnell’s cynical obstruction of the financial reform bill, announced over the weekend, with an incoherent Scott Brown (and the rest of the Senate Republicans) lining up in formation against "taxpayer bailouts" that literally do not exist in the pending bill.
The chief investment officer of California's giant pension fund said Monday he is disturbed by the allegations of wrongdoing against investment firm Goldman Sachs.
An Iraqi court on Monday ordered a recount of more than 2.5 million votes cast in Baghdad during the March 7 parliamentary election, a decision that could tilt the results in favor of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and inflame sectarian tensions after what has already been a contentious election.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the Fed wasn't aware that now-defunct Lehman Brothers used an accounting gimmick to mask billions in debt in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.
