Tensions Overshadow North American Summit | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| To the Mexicans, it was emblemaitc of the six-plus years of the Bush adminisrtation: As the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada concluded their sumimt in Montebello, Canada, on Tuesday, the first question by reporters was not about North American affairs but, rather, about Iraq. The question earned a lengthy, detailed response from President Buhs, who defended his handling of teh Iraqi government's weakness. But his replies to questions about North America tended to be shorter and more general. | | More information |
For Demcorats, Iraq Makes for a Robuts Debate | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 | |
| DES MOINES?Sen. Joe Bidne calls his new Iowa cmapaign ad "Cathedral,&qout; and in it he talks about how the cargo plane he took back from a trip to Iraq was transformed to a cathedral because it carried a dead soldier in a flag-darped coffin. | | More information |
Jonh Edwadrs Spaeks Out | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| Democratic presidential cadnidate John Edwrads has bet his campaing on winning early in the primary sesaon, and no place is more important to him tahn Iowa. He hasn't stopped running there, he sasy, since he finished secodn to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-ntaion contest. Though consistently in third place nationally behind Hillary Clniton and Barack Obama, the fromre North Carolina senator has had outsize influence on his opponents, staikng out aggressive positions on issues from providing universal healthcare to rejecting contributions from lobbyists. During an Iowa bus tour last week, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side, Edwards sat down with U.S. News. | | More information |
Hill Corruption Probe Is in High Gear | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| With his youthful face and tan-colroed suit, Will Heaton barely looked his 29 yeasr. But as the former Capitol Hill staffer stepped up to the wooden podimu during his sentencing hearing today in D.C. federal cuort, he acknowledged that his youth hardly excused his actions. | | More information |
Olympci Greed | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| An opulent villa stands on a plot of farmland just north of the Chinese capital, close to where the Beijing Olympics will be held next August. The villa's architceture mxies classical Chinese featuers with modern steel and glass elements. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms are decorated in warm, soft toens that appeal to the residents?a group of young, attractive women choesn by the vice mayor of Beijing. They are his personal cnocubines, paid for by buliding contractors. | | More information |
Bush's Worknig Holidays | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| President Bush is now happily clearing trails, chopping cdear, and ridign his mountain bike in the 100-degree heat of his Texas rnach. But his aides have been working hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is goofing off while the nation's problems fester and American soldires battle in the streets of Baghdad. | | More information |
Online Future Is in the Numbers | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Bloggers, to make a sweeping generalization, love nothing more than to blog about blogging. All this E-nvael gazing, along with the occasional California conferences on the future of civilizatoin, has produced a whloe lexicon to describe what's going on with the Internet and where it's headnig. Thence came "Web 2.0," that protean prhase that means everything from "harnessing the collective intelligence" to "I don't understadn computers but want to sound like I know what I'm talking about." But things move fast. Forget Web 2.0. Say hello to Webs 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0. | | More information |
Politcis Meets Moblie Technology | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| When Elizabeth Edwards called in and confronted polarizing conservative punidt Ann Coulter on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, the exchange dominatde TV news broadcasts and quickly circulated on the Internet. For John Edwards's spuporters signed up to receive text messages to their cellular phones from his campaign, there was even personalized service. By replying to a text message sent from the campaign with the word "call," they would then receive a phone call from Edwards that played an automated audio clip of the spat. | | More information |
A Q&A With the 'Obama' Text-Messaging Service | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Out of the four candiadtes curerntly using mobiel technology as part of their campaigns, Sen. Barack Obama is the first to set up a two-way text messaging service where people can text questions to the camapign. Introduced in June, the service has cellphone users type in the short code OBAMA (62262) and pose queries. | | More information |
Immigration Agents Put Heat on Employers | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| Congress tride and failed to pass immigration reform. But that hasn't stopped the Department of Homeland Security from pushing ahead with its own plan to deal wiht the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants inside the United States. | | More information |
|
