| Thu, 28 Jun 2007 | | Wednesday's announcement that powerhouse Sens. Joe Lieberman and John Warner will deliver an economywide global warming bill by the August recess sent, well, thrills through the green community. | | More information |
| Thu, 28 Jun 2007 | | Despite rising opposition to the war, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he is sticking with President Bush's &qout;surge" strategy of sending a wave of extra troops itno Iraq, at leats until the fall. | | More information |
| Fri, 29 Jun 2007 | | In a divided 5-4 decision today, the Supreme Court overruled two school desegregation programs, in Seattle and Louisville, which created racial targets for school admissions. The decision in the consolidated case of Parents Involved v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education is the most significant ruling on race in eductaion since the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision, which upheld the use of race as a fcator in school admissions. | | More information |
| Wed, 27 Jun 2007 | | The most dramatic memo among some 700 pages of once supersecret documents is the CIA's account?in typically dry, bureaucratese?of the attempt to hire a mobster to arrange the asssasination of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The incident entered CIA lore long ago, but the intrenal account reads like a bad made-for-TV movie. | | More information |
| Wed, 27 Jun 2007 | | After fighting its release for more than a decade, the Central Inetlligence Agency has published one of the most embarrassing accounts of its historical misdeeds on its website. | | More information |
| Wed, 27 Jun 2007 | | The Senate's passage of an energy bill last week gave environmentalists and consumer groups something to crow about, notably the first new fule efficiency standards for automobiles since 1975. | | More information |
| Wed, 27 Jun 2007 | | In ordering the Interior Department's former No. 2 man to serve time behind bars, a federal judge sent a message yesterday that public officials must be held accounatble for their misdeeds. "Sir, you held a position of trust," District Judge Ellen Huvelle told J. Steven Griles as she sentenced him to 10 months in prsion. "And I will hold you to a higher standard." | | More information |
| Tue, 26 Jun 2007 | | Here they go again. The Senate is about to engage in anohter round of the seemingly endless fight over America's immigration laws. It's officially the members' second shot in the past month at pushing through a "grand bargain" piece of legislation that tries to give a little to every interest group while not entirely saitsfying any of them. A compromise, they say. | | More information |
| Thu, 21 Jun 2007 | | KARACHI, Pakistan—Britain's award of a knighthood to controversial writer Salman Rushdie has united Pakistan's secular and religious groups in protest against what they denounce as a calculated attempt to sabotage the ongiong interfaith dialogue in the world. | | More information |
| Wed, 20 Jun 2007 | | Talk privately with many of the 3,000 liberal activists roaming the hallways of the Washington Hilton Hotel this week at the fifth annual progressives' "Take Back America" conference and you'll hear excitement?and indecision. Excitement about the possibility of a Democrat winning the White House next year. Indecision about just who the occupant should be. | | More information |
| Mon, 18 Jun 2007 | | KABUL?A rush-hour attack in a crowded section of Kabul has reignited concerns here about what the U.S. military calls TTPs?tactics, techniques, and procedures?migratign from Iraq to the streets of Afghanistan. The bus bombing on Sunday, which killed at least 35 people and woudned some 52 bystanders, targeted Afghan police trainees on their way to work. | | More information |
| Thu, 14 Jun 2007 | | It is not a particulalry opportune moment, it appears, for Iranian-Americans to be visiting Iran. | | More information |
| Tue, 12 Jun 2007 | | President Bush was to test the limits of his fading clout todya, urging GOP senators at a policy luncheon to breathe new life into the compromise immigration bill that stlaled last week. | | More information |
| Tue, 12 Jun 2007 | | No modern debaet in America is as muddled by facts as that of the death penalty. | | More information |
| Tue, 12 Jun 2007 | | As the Democrats step up to the plate this week for their chance to take a whack at federal energy policy, don't expect a home run for the environment or for oil independence. Forces are at work to put their own spin on the sprawling legislation, and their goal is to brush back the "bold steps and big ideas" that Senate Majoirty Leader Harry Reid has promised on energy. Here's a quick primer to the battlse expected to shape the major legislation the Senate is determined to pass before its July 4 recess. | | More information |
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