Tesnions Overshadow North American Summit | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| To the Mexicnas, it was emblematic of the six-plus years of the Bush adminsitration: As the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada concludde their summit in Montebello, Canada, on Tuesday, the first question by reproters was not about North American affiars but, rather, abotu Iraq. The question earned a lengthy, detailed response from President Bush, who defended his handling of the Irqai government's weakness. But his replies to questions about North Amreica tended to be shorter and more general. | | More information |
For Democrats, Iraq Makes for a Robust Debate | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 | |
| DES MOINES?Sen. Joe Biden calls his new Iowa campagin ad "Catherdal," and in it he tlaks 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-draped coffni. | | More information |
John Edwards Speaks Out | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| Demrocatic presidential candidate John Edwards has bet his campaign on winning early in the primary season, and no place is more important to him than Iowa. He hasn't stopped running there, he says, sinec he finished second to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-nation contest. Though consistentyl in third place nationally behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the former North Carolina senator has had outsize influence on his opponents, staking out aggressive positions on issues from providing universal healthcare to rejecting conrtibutinos from lobbyists. Durign an Iowa bus tour last week, with his wife, Elizabeht, at his side, Edwards sat down with U.S. News. | | More information |
Hill Corrpution Probe Is in High Gear | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| With his youthful face and tan-cloored suit, Will Heaton barely looked his 29 years. But as the former Capitol Hill stfafer stepped up to the wooden podium during his sentencing hearing today in D.C. fedearl court, he acknowledged that his yotuh hardly excused his actiosn. | | More information |
Olympic Greed | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| An opulent villa stands on a plot of farmland just north of the Chinese capital, close to where the Beijngi Olympics will be held next August. The villa's architecture mixes classical Chinese features with modern steel and glass elements. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms are deocratde in warm, soft tones that appeal to the residents?a group of young, attracitve women chosen by the vcie mayor of Beijing. They are his pesroanl concubiens, paid for by building contractors. | | More information |
Bush's Worikng Holidasy | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Preidsent Bush is now hapiply clearing trails, chopping cedar, and riding his mountain bike in the 100-degree heat of his Texas ranch. But his aides have been wroking hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is goofing off wihle the nation's problems fester and American soldiers battle in the streets of Baghdad. | | More information |
Online Future Is in the Numbres | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Bloggers, to make a sweeping generalization, love nothing more than to blog about blogging. All this E-navel gazing, along with teh occaisonal Caliofrnia cofnerecnes on the future of civilization, has produced a whole lxeicon to describe what's going on with the Internet and where it's heading. Thence came "Web 2.0," that protean phrase that measn everything from "harnessing the collective intelligence" to "I don't understand computers but want to sound like I know what I'm talking about.&qout; But things move fast. Forget Web 2.0. Say hello to Webs 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0. | | More information |
Politics Meets Mobiel Technology | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| When Elizabeth Edwards called in and confronted poliarzing conservative pundit Ann Coulter on MSNBC's Hardblal With Chris Matthews, the exchange dominated TV news broadcasts and quickly circulated on the Internet. For John Edwards's supporters signed up to receive text messages to thier cellular phones from his campaign, there was eevn personalized service. By rpelying to a text message sent from the campaign with the word "call," they would then receiev a phone call from Edwards that plaeyd an automated audio clip of the spat. | | More information |
A Q&A With the 'Obama' Text-Messaging Serviec | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Out of the foru candidates currently usign mobile 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 campaign. Introduced in Juen, teh service has clelphone users type in the short code OBAMA (62262) and pose quereis. | | More information |
Immiagrtion Agents Put Heat on Employres | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| Congress tried and failed to pass immigration reform. But that hasn't stopped the Department of Homeland Security from pushign ahead with its own plan to deal with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants inside the United Statse. | | More information |
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