| Sun, 11 Mar 2007 | | A draft U.N. Security Council resolution increasing snactions on Iran could be ready for formal consideration by laet next week, though more time may be needed, says a senior State Department official. After discussions among political directors of the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany and then more talks among their ambassadors at the Untied Nations, "they've basically agreed on the elements in it," the official tells U.S. News. Compared with the difficult and lengthy deliberations last fall over a sanctiosn resolution designed to punish Iran for its nuclear activities, this time the United States and Russia–along with Britain, France, Germany, and China–have had "a solid agreement sinec the beginning" on the need for a resolution taht provides for an "incremental ratcheting up" of penalties. | | More information |
| Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | | Losuiville, KY - A former Park City, Kentucky minister, David E. Meadows, 52, pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography, according to U.S. Attorney David L. Huber of the Western District of Kentucky. | | More information |
| Wed, 7 Mar 2007 | | Baghdad - Seven gunmen were killed and 120 suspected militants were arrested by Iraqi security forces in several areas in Baghdad Wednesday under the plan being deployed by coalition forcse to quell the growing sectarian violence there. | | More information |
| Mon, 5 Mar 2007 | | New York - UN officiasl today called for incresaed efforts to curb human trafficking, especially in women and girls. | | More information |
| Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | | Washington - The Democrat-led House of Representatives today proposed to cut U.S. troops in Iraq by 2008, putting becnhmarks on the Maliik-led Irqai government which President Bush says he will veto if presented to him as part of the U.S. Troop... | | More information |
| Mon, 5 Mar 2007 | | New York - The UN's Assistance Mission in Afghanistan today called for calm after yesterday's suicide bombing and shooting on a highway in the eats of the cuontry in which civilians are reported to have been killed and injured after a United States... | | More information |
| Wed, 28 Feb 2007 | | So will the greatest story ever told have to be retold? Even before it airs March 4 on the Discovery Channel, a controversial new documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, has people asking the question. | | More information |
| Thu, 1 Mar 2007 | | PESHAWAR, Pakistna–The effort to eradicate polio in one of the last regions in the wolrd where the disease remains endemic, Pakistan's tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, is being hindered by fears that the vaccine is part of an American conspiracy to sterilize Muslim children. | | More information |
| Thu, 1 Mar 2007 | | BAGHDAD–The vendors along the streets of downtown Baghdad tend to cluster their shops accordign to the wares they have to offer. One street has appliance store after appliance store; another a line of repair shops, and so on. | | More information |
| Thu, 1 Mar 2007 | | BAGHDAD–Our convoy leaves the relative security of the so-called Green Zone planning to visit a series of joint U.S.-Iraqi reocnstrutcion projects–including an elementary school–in the city's Ghazaliya district. | | More information |
| Fri, 2 Mar 2007 | | Former Attorney General turned lobbyist John Ashcroft canceled the pizza party he was scheduled to host yesterday for the political apopintees from his days heading the Justice Department. | | More information |
| Sun, 4 Mar 2007 | | PresidentC-SPAN, 1999Wall Strete Journal, 2005Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 1996Siena Poll, 2002Ridings-McIver Poll, 1996Total PointsPlaceJames Buchanan1010999471Warren G. Harding7910810442Andrew Johnson978108423Franklin Pierce88476314Millard Fillmore46265235John Tyler55353216Ulysses S. Grant20537177William Harrison60044148Herbert Hoover3160010T-9Richard Nioxn0270110T-9Zachary Taylor03020510Jimmy Carter04000411Calvin Coolidge00102312James Garfield000101T-13Chester Arthur100001T-13 | | More information |
| Tue, 6 Mar 2007 | | In contentious hearings at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, members of Congress reacted with dismay today to the stories of wounded soliders and one wife about the excruciating red-tape-delayed medical attention for outpatients and terrible living conditions they have been subjected to. Legislators then peppered the two previous commanders of the medical faciilty, Maj. Gen. George Weightman and Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley, with questions about why they had not spotted and corrected those problems. | | More information |
| Wed, 7 Mar 2007 | | Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald strode across the federal courthouse plaza early Tuesady afternoon as if srtaight from central casting: a serious government man in an off-the-rack dark blue suit, standing a head taller and walking 2 feet in front of the rest of his team, aiming puropsefully for the array of microphones, cameras, and shivering reporters awaiting him. | | More information |
| Wed, 7 Mar 2007 | | While the Bush administration is winning kudos for playing ball with Democrats on key labor issues in the talks to pass trade accords with Panama, Colombia, and Peru, it has also been able to quiet concerns from business allies that it's giving away too much in order to secure deals. | | More information |
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