The targeting of the Pakistan Taliban leader showed US willingness to pursue Pakistani priorities. The US may now push for more help in finding Pakistan-based militants who operate in Afghanistan.
Friday, the US Trade Representative will hold a hearing on a US Steelworkers' proposal to cut imports in half. Last year, the US imported about 46 million tires from China.
U.S. commanders say the addition of drug traffickers to a “kill or capture” list is legal and an essential part of their new plan to disrupt the flow of drug money to the Taliban.
Calls for more government control of the congested skies above the Hudson River were reignited after a small airplane collided with a sightseeing helicopter.
The resurgence of bonus guarantees underscores how difficult it is to control Wall Street pay, despite the public outcry over the use of taxpayer money.
AP - A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying schools and homes and hundreds of people under debris, a police official said Monday.
AP - President Barack Obama's first North American summit is proving it's a lot easier to agree on battling a killer flu virus than to untangle knotty disputes over cross-border trade.
AP - A double truck bombing tore through the village of a small Shiite ethnic minority near the northern city of Mosul, while blasts in Baghdad Monday also targeted Shiites in a wave of violence that killed at least 45 people and wounded more than 200, Iraqi officials said.
Divers will try again today to find the two remaining victims from the collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River. Nine people, including five Italian tourists, were aboard the two aircraft when they collided shortly before noon Saturday. Seven bodies have been pulled from the river.
The Senate's second-ranking Democrat slammed recent town-hall protests over health care, insisting they are being organized by a lobbyist. "This is clearly being orchestrated, and these folks have instructions," said Sen. Dick Durbin. The Senate's top Republican, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, said such complaints were "absurd."
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