As President Bush prepares to present his new strategy on Iraq, Democratic Congressional leaders said today they will fight any approach that calls for deploying more U.S. troops.
The warning came as South Korean officials reported suspicious activities at the North?s test site but no evidence of preparations for a nuclear blast.
Baby boomers, often on the cutting edge of new personal finance trends like online banking and bill paying, are lagging behind their elders on one popular banking amenity: direct deposit. A full 25 percent of baby boomers still receive their salary or other regular payments by paper check, compared with just 13 percent of people age 61 and older, a U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank survey found this week. That could have profound financial implications for taxpayers if baby boomers continue to scorn direct deposit of payments when they retire.
Connections is a prevailing theme for this year's Consumer Electronics Show, where more than 120,000 techies will gather in Las Vegas starting Monday to gawk at the latest and greatest gadgets and services.
U.S. News recently exchanged E-mails with Will Hutton about his new book, The Writing on the Wall: Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy.
AP - Days from announcing an overhaul of Iraq strategy, President Bush on Friday encountered a wall of criticism of the U.S. troop escalation that is expected to be the centerpiece of his new war plan.
AP - Islamic fighters hiding in Mogadishu since their movement's main force was driven from the Somali capital say they will heed al-Qaida's call for guerrilla attacks and suicide bombings against Ethiopian troops whose intervention was key to the Islamists' defeat.
AP - Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops will begin a neighborhood-by-neighborhood assault on militants in the capital this weekend as a first step in the new White House strategy to contain Sunni insurgents and Shiite death squads, key advisers to the prime minister said Friday.
President Bush was told Friday that boosting troop levels in Iraq would be a "serious mistake." In an open letter, top Democrats called it a "strategy that has already failed." The criticism comes as Bush considers his Iraq options and makes top-level military and diplomatic changes.
When Sonia Bibi went to police two years ago after her son disappeared, she said police told her she "shouldn't have had so many children." The skeletal remains of Bibi's son and 16 other people were recently found buried in bags in suburban New Dehli. The discovery shocked residents and raised questions of police negligence.
James Jackson, a 26-year-old black employee of 180 Connect, was preparing for another day of installing cable, telephone and Internet service to residential customers of Cablevision in Nassau County, New York on December 7.
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