The state of Michigan appealed to the US Supreme Court to shut down Chicago-area waterways in order to block the spread of invasive Asian carp.
Officials have already installed expensive electric barriers to block the carp from making their way up from the Mississippi River basin into Lake Michigan and the rest of the Great Lakes.
Pakistan will not go as far as Washington wants, and there’s nothing the U.S. can do about it: That’s the sobering reality as the U.S. tries to persuade a hesitant Pakistan to finish off the fight against terrorists.
The U.S. has offered Pakistan $7.5 billion in military aid and broader cooperation with the armed forces.
The former deputy U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith, said on Thursday that he has launched legal action against the United Nations for firing him without any justification.
Ban gave no explanation at the time but issued a statement thanking Galbraith “for his hard work and professional dedication” and recognizing his “important contributions to [...]
The nation will have 100 million doses of swine flu vaccine by week’s end, and government health officials say it’s time for everyone, not just those at high risk, to get protected.
She got her own shot this week.
For people who’ve been at the back of the line, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says, [...]
The White House decision to move up to 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees to this dying Mississippi River town has folks here seeing dollar signs, not suspected terrorists.
“This is probably the economic-development opportunity of a lifetime for northwest Illinois, and we intend to take full advantage of it,” said Russ Simpson, who leads an economic-development group [...]
Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo.
President Barack Obama is asking bank executives to support his efforts to tighten the financial industry, while bankers are prepared to tell the president he should stop oversimplifying their concerns if he wants good-faith collaboration.
Administration officials described the meeting as a continuation of discussions the president initiated early in his tenure and the latest push [...]
The Obama administration has focused on an Illinois prison as it searches for a facility to house terrorism suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, but has not made a final decision, Illinois officials said on Friday.
A portion of the prison would be used to house detainees from the controversial naval detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, [...]
Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al-Qaida linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, a Pakistani law enforcement official said Thursday.
“We have had access to the five detainees,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters Thursday at an [...]
Five young American Muslims captured in Pakistan are under investigation for possible links to terrorism after their families found a disturbing farewell video the missing men left behind showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.
Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the [...]
