Despite its spruced-up look and high-tech improvements, the White House briefing room, which reopens Wednesday morning, isn't returning to its glory days anytime soon.
Over four summers, Akiko Busch, 53, of Unionville, N.Y., swam across nine rivers, including the Hudson and Delaware in New York; the Connecticut in Massachusetts; the Susquehanna, Cheat, and Monongahela in Pennsylvania; the Mississippi and Current in Missouri; and the Ohio in Kentucky. Her crossings began in August 2001, a few weeks before the 9/11 attacks, when she impulsively tackled the Hudson at a half-mile crossing near New Hamburg, N.Y. As she saw the world grow ever more divided, pondered middle age, and encountered fears about the health of America's rivers, the swims took on enough significance for her to pen a book, released July 10, about the experience. U.S. News spoke to Busch about "Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There From Here."
What is eBay, anyway? That is the question investors are asking after the world's largest online auction site announced last month that it was launching its own free classified advertising site in the United States—daring to tread into territory that craigslist has dominated for years.
AP - The Iraqi government has not yet fully met any of 18 goals for political, military and economic reform, the Bush administration said Thursday in an interim report certain to inflame debate in Congress over growing calls for a U.S. troop withdrawal.
AP - U.S. troops raided a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad on Thursday in a hunt for militiamen linked to Iran, sparking exchanges of fire and a mortar attack. Officials said 19 people were killed, and residents said some of the casualties were caused by U.S. helicopter fire.
AP - A new threat assessment from U.S. counterterrorism analysts says that al-Qaida has used its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border to restore its operating capabilities to a level unseen since the months before Sept. 11, 2001.
The Iraqi government has met eight benchmarks satisfactorily, eight unsatisfactorily and has made mixed progress on two others, a new U.S. report has concluded. President Bush is scheduled to speak this morning about Iraq and the much-anticipated report.
Al Qaeda is the strongest it has been since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, a new U.S. analysis concludes, according to a senior government official. The terrorist network has found safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the report says.
An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York early Thursday after a crew member became suspicious of one of the passengers, an airline spokeswoman said.
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