?The emergency is to ensure elections go in an undisturbed manner,? the president of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said in an interview with The New York Times today.
The newest fad among avid mobile users is accessing financial information right from their cellphones. Six of the top 10 U.S. banks now offer some sort of cellphone banking. Today, U.S. News's Emily Brandon discusses the pluses and minuses of cellphone banking, from convenience to hefty text-messaging fees.
AP - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday called on President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to resign and ruled out serving under him in a future government after she was placed under house arrest for the second time in five days.
AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that Democrats won't approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home.
AP - President Bush, escalating his budget battle with Congress, on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressional Democrats.
The college student who was told what question to ask at one of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events says "voters have the right to know what happened" and she wasn't the only one who was planted. In an exclusive interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is "dishonest," and the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics.
Police shot and killed an unarmed young man outside his Brooklyn apartment Monday night after his mother reported a "family dispute with a gun," police and witnesses said. "The boy didn't have no gun, he had a brush on him," said neighbor Andre Wildman.