Staring at the camera, Shona Holmes says a brain tumor would have killed her had she relied on her Canadian, government-run health plan that would have provided treatment far too late. “Now, Washington wants to bring Canadian-style health care to the U.S.,” a narrator says darkly.
In fact, President Barack Obama and Democrats pushing to overhaul [...]
The United States and Russia say they are resuming military cooperation suspended after Russia invaded its smaller neighbor Georgia last year.
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen and his Russian counterpart signed an outline for renewed military contacts. The White House announced that the two nations plan 20 exchanges and meeting this year.
Frederic V. Rolando is the new president of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
A 31-year postal veteran, the new union head began his postal career in South Miami, Fla.
Rolando, 56, took over leadership of the 300,000-member postal union on the retirement of William H. Young, the union announced Monday.
It’s art for the people, of the people and definitely by the people.
Artist Antony Gormley, who came up with the idea, said it would provide “a living picture” of Britain “in all its wonderful difference.”
A 35-year-old mother-of-two stepped onto an seven meter-high (23 foot-high) stone plinth in Trafalgar Square on Monday, kicking off an ambitious [...]
Chronic hunger may be “the defining human tragedy of this century,” as climate change causes growing seasons to shift, crops to fail, and storms and droughts to ravage fields, an advocacy group said.
It says that as the weather changes, millions of people in areas suffering food scarcity will have to give up traditional crops, possibly [...]
Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined French President Nicolas Sarkozy in this Alpine town on Monday for a summit to prepare for the G8 and step up efforts against illegal immigration.
Meeting on the shores of Lake Geneva, Sarkozy and Brown were expected to issue a joint call for G8 action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, halt [...]
Israel’s ultranationalist foreign minister said Monday that he voluntarily removed himself from crucial talks with the United States because he lives in a West Bank settlement, denying speculation that he’s being sidelined by an image-conscious government troubled by growing friction with the Obama administration.
As his presidency approaches the half-year mark, Barack Obama is on pace to be the most successful Oval Office occupant in more than half a century when measured by his ability to get Congress to vote his way — even though he shows signs of carefully picking his fights on Capitol Hill.
So far, Obama has [...]
President Barack Obama opened his first Moscow summit with confidence on Monday, predicting “extraordinary progress” out of meetings set to test his diplomatic skills on important priorities such as nuclear arsenal reductions and the fight in Afghanistan.
With both men showing signs they are eager to reset damaged relations, Obama’s host launched the high-stakes summit with [...]
Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for his role in escalating the Vietnam War, a role he later deeply regretted, died Monday. He was 93.
McNamara was fundamentally associated with the Vietnam War, “McNamara’s war,” the country’s most disastrous foreign venture, the only American war to end in abject withdrawal rather [...]
