Two moderate senators who could be critical to passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul on Friday pushed for greater cost containment measures in the landmark legislation.
Both have voiced opposition to the bill as written, with Lieberman threatening to filibuster over a proposed new government insurance plan to compete with the private market.
Some two dozen countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, the chief of NATO said Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her allied counterparts that an infusion of forces is crucial to turning the tide in the long war.
The troop estimate was 2,000 higher than the [...]
A look at key issues in the health care debate:
THE POLITICS: Health care spending over the past year increased by 3.2 percent even as overall consumer prices dropped 2.1 percent. That’s not unusual in the United States, where health care spending rises at rates substantially higher than inflation.
Federal investigators have found no misconduct by U.S. Forest Service personnel in the deaths of five firefighters in a massive 2006 California wildfire.
However, she stressed that the deaths did not occur as a result of “misconduct or unauthorized actions by (Forest Service) personnel.”
Under federal law, the inspector general for the Department of Agriculture is required [...]
A 44-year-old Texas man was executed Thursday evening for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he was too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.
Tests administered to Woods put his IQ anywhere from the 60s to the 80s. An IQ of 70 is considered the threshold for mental impairment.
The chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff is reiterating that the U.S. target date for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan is flexible and will take “conditions on the ground” into account.
The July 2011 target, Mullen told CBS’ “Early Show,” is when the U.S. will “start to transition security responsibilities to Afghan forces.
Crucial dates in the slaying of British student Meredith Kercher and the subsequent investigation involving U.S. student Amanda Knox, Italian Raffaele Sollecito and Ivorian citizen Rudy Hermann Guede.
Nov. 6, 2007. Knox is arrested in connection with the slaying. Also arrested are Knox’s then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of Italy; and the Congolese owner of a Perugia pub [...]
A group of yachtsmen held briefly by Iran after their boat crossed into Iranian waters returned to Britain on Friday.
Asked what he planned now that he was home, Porter said: “Probably go to the pub.”
Smiling and looking relaxed, Oliver Smith, Oliver Young, Sam Usher and Luke Porter arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport after a six-hour [...]
U.S. Marines and Afghan troops on Friday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.
A U.S. military official in Washington said it was the first use of Ospreys, aircrafts that combine features of helicopters [...]
With the jobless rate rising and his approval ratings sinking, President Barack Obama hosted academics and leaders of business and labor at a White House jobs summit Thursday, seeking advice on how to boost employment.
Democrats want additional federal spending to create jobs and aid states, which are struggling to maintain social services after the deepest [...]
