Results tagged “afghanistan”

• Ft. Hood hero story being questioned.
• Balloon boy's parents to plead guilty, duh.
• Bomb-sniffing dog in Afghanistan returns after being missing for 14 months.

• President Obama's latest report card: (still) Incomplete
• Hamid Karzai declared winner of canceled Afghan runoff
• Attorney General Holder asserts state secrets in wiretap suit

• Militants bomb Pakistan market hours after Clinton arrives in country
• Gunmen storm guest house, kill UN workers in Afghanistan
• San Francisco's Bay Bridge closed indefinitely due to fallen debris

• In case you didn't hear...public option lives to see another day.
• Recession is "over"...but job losses continue, so who cares?
• Sobering words from a Foreign Service officer who is resigning because of the Afghanistan war.

• 16 Americans dead in Afghanistan helicopter crash
• NY Times: Iraqi blast toll worse than feared
• 800,000,000,000,000 pennies in those healthcare couch cushions?

• University of Texas getting Cronkite's papers and photographs
• Leslie's condition continues to improve; now at rehab hospital
• Underworld in shock as hitman quits Mafia and tells court he's gay

• Afghan election will happen all over again.
• Attn politicians: Most Americans STILL support the public option.
• Pakistani university gets hit hard.

• Interracial couple in Louisiana denied marriage license.
• Bank of America loses $2.24B as loan losses rise.
• Bomb kills 4 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

• Civilian goals still unmet in Afghanistan
• Two Americans share Nobel economics prize; this is the first year a female has been awarded the prize for economics.
• Insurance industry advocacy group claims premiums will rise under healthcare reform

• Obama confers about Afghanistan with a bipartisan group of legislators (because bipartisanship has been going so well for him lately...)
• Polanski loses bid to be released; court calls him a "flight risk."
• Why are we taking the word "climate" out of climate change legislation?

• Reuters: Iran flexes muscle ahead of talks
• Big win, conservative course for Germany's Angela Merkel
• Republicans push for more troops in Afghanistan

• This Week in Obama: Letterman, U.N., Afghanistan
• The healthcare media blitz: Resistance is Futile...
• ... or is it?

• Obama to schoolchildren: "You can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job"
• President takes to the airwaves tonight to talk health care
• Kidnapped New York Times journalist freed in Afghan raid

• Marines launch assault on Taliban-held Afghan town
• Remembering Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Tuesday at age 88
• Aspirin cuts risk of colon cancer

• OMG! The socialists are coming, the socialists are coming!
• Cash for clunkers program boosts auto sales, expected to continue…
• …Unless it doesn’t…

China rising: US, Beijing, prepare for "G2" summit Pelosi vows passage of healthcare overhaul Bill Moyers: Obama and healthcare execs -- BFFs? More economic indicators: The "Big Mac" exchange rate No more body counts in Afghanistan as mission focus shifts Business Week: "Skilled Immigrants on Why They're Leaving the U.S." MJ's hair to be made into "diamonds", whereabouts of nose still uncertain

• Never ending war.
• Inhofe on Franken: pot calling the kettle black.
• Just what America needs - less educated students.

Rick Perry makes Rush Limbaugh honorary Texan, saying, "God bless Rush Limbaugh!" A disturbing record: 200 executions under Gov. Perry (so far). 27-year-old Lance Cpl. Matthew G. Reza from Austin was killed in Afghanistan over the weekend. 30-year-old man charged with capital murder in recent death of 17-year-old LBJ High School student. Mother caught on tape at Dell Children's Hospital repeatedly putting feces through her 3-year-old daughter's feeding tube. Teenager smoking in bed starts a fire in South Austin apartment complex. Blanton Museum has a new director: Dr. Ned Rifkin, former undersecretary for art at the Smithsonian Institution. Councilmember Martinez wants you to stop texting while driving.

• GM's Rick Wagoner out, US Treasury in
• MI Gov. Granholm: Rick Wagoner a "sacrificial lamb"
• The Guardian UK: "Afghanistan's failing army"

• Geithner: The man with (yet another) plan for those toxic assets
• Rolling Stones' Matt Taibbi on the global economic crisis: "We're officially, royally f$^%ed."
• More Signs of the Economic Times: Women needing cash go from jobless to topless

Hip-hop/spoken word artist Shannon Leigh was in a cave-diving accident two weeks ago in Florida. She is in a coma in a Florida hospital. NRA goes on a spree. Republican party "much more open to strong women." Questionable election results not just an American phenomenon. Desperately seeking real news. Fox News losing lead. Some Anglicans ask the question, "Who would Jesus disenfranchise?" Read this headline twice.

Having won the Iowa Democratic Primary, U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama appears to be rocking and rolling with new momentum. The latest numbers show Obama leading the pack in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary, with Hillary Clinton lagging in second place by a 10 point gap. What's going on here?