At 21, Jelena Woehr describes herself as a feminist, focusing on issues such as domestic violence and improved career opportunities for women.
“People of my generation do not remember when abortion wasn’t safe, legal and available and it’s been a shock to think we might not have that right,” said the Colorado resident, a part-time student [...]
Dr. Mark Weinberger had a one-size-fits all practice, lawyers say.
Now, hundreds of patients are hoping that Weinberger’s arrest this week on an Italian mountain after he disappeared while on a European vacation five years ago will mean their lawsuits claiming the doctor misdiagnosed them, botched surgeries or hastily performed the wrong procedures can finally get [...]
US President Barack Obama approved firepower, intelligence and other support requested by the Yemeni government to help it strike Al-Qaeda militants, The New York Times reported Saturday.
But witnesses said civilians were among about 50 people killed.
Yemeni security forces killed at least 28 Al-Qaeda militants and captured 17 others in operations backed by air strikes on [...]
World leaders finally clinched a climate deal at the end of marathon talks Friday but admitted it would not halt global warming and campaigners denounced the outcome as an abject failure.
And the deal still have to get the approval of the 193 UN members states, including small island nations most at risk from the warmer [...]
With a Christmas deadline looming, President Barack Obama urged lawmakers sitting on the fence Saturday to get behind his push for an overhaul of the embattled US health care system.
The United States is the worlds richest nation but the only industrialized democracy that does not provide health care coverage to all of its citizens.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says “we have a deal” after a climate conference in Copenhagen decided to recognize a political accord brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers.
Many poor nations had bitterly protested the deal because it lacks specific targets for reducing carbon emissions.
More than 100 US lawmakers told President Barack Obama in a letter Friday that they would act to protect jobs at home if a final WTO ruling finds Europes Airbus benefited from illegal subsidies.
Republican Representative Todd Tiahrt and Democratic Representative Norm Dicks crafted the letter, which refers to a September World Trade Organization interim ruling [...]
U.N. climate talks avoided a total collapse on Saturday by skirting bitter opposition from several nations to a deal championed by the U.S. President Barack Obama and five emerging economies including China.
But a decision at marathon 193-nation talks merely took note of the new accord, a non-binding deal for combating global warming led by the [...]
The Senate comes in shortly after a snowy dawn to vote on legislation ensuring that the troops are armed and the jobless don’t lose their benefits - and to take one more step toward a Christmas week showdown over health care.
The defense bill itself, which contains $128 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan [...]
A furious final two days of climate diplomacy and presidential brinkmanship produced 2 1/2 thin pages called the Copenhagen Accord, a deal vague at times in meaning, rejected by some, lacking any teeth.
Ill-starred though it seemed at its birth, the 11th-hour deal may ultimately be seen as another halting step in the slow, painful evolution [...]
