A record influx of immigrants has put classrooms on the front lines of America?s battles over whether and how to assimilate the newcomers and their children.
AP - Amid misgivings over his spending blueprint, President Barack Obama has decided to provide billions of dollars in federal lending aid aimed at struggling small business owners.
AP - Pakistan's opposition leader defied house arrest on Sunday to lead anti-government protests that briefly turned violent before becoming a jubilant show of force against the country's pro-Western president.
The Obama administration has endangered Americans and opened the country to further attack by reversing Bush administration anti-terrorism policies such as harsh interrogations of suspects, former Vice President Dick Cheney said today. Cheney also told CNN's "State of the Union" that the United States has "accomplished nearly everything we set out to do" in Iraq, including establishing a democratic government in the Middle East.
A top Taliban commander has issued a new threat to foreign aid workers, saying that under the insurgent group's new "constitution" they will execute them as spies or hold them in exchange for the release of Taliban fighters.
Police in Pakistan fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing protesters who defied a government ban on rallies and congregated in large numbers in the city of Lahore today. As soon as the sting from the gas wore off, the demonstrators gathered again near the Lahore Supreme Court, waiting for opposition leader Nawaz Sharif to lead them on a march toward the capital city, Islamabad.