After railing for months against Congressional corruption under Republican rule, Democrats are divided on how far their proposed ethics overhaul should go.
Nominated to be defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, if he is confirmed, will face challenges that dwarf even those he saw in the tumultuous last years of the cold war.
Eager writers are blogging about every aspect of life imaginable, so why not retirement planning? Baby boomers and generation X-ers–many of them still decades away from retiring–are finding that blogging can often help them meet their own retirement goals.
UCLA students plan to hold a protest today in response to university police officers' repeated use of a Taser gun against a student Tuesday, Inside Higher Ed reports, linking to this Facebook announcement of the march. Police hit Mostafa Tabatabainejad four times with a Taser after he failed to provide a student ID card during a random check, the Daily Bruin reports. The Facebook announcement calls on students to join the march "not just because you're Persian/Iranian but because you care about your fellow human beings." A cellphone videotape of the evidence, obtained by the Daily Bruin, gives a detailed account of the library incident.
Racial slurs and hate speech aren't new at the University of Michigan. But since the state voted yes on Proposition 2, an affirmative action ban, they've gotten a "new edge," the university's dean of students told the Michigan Daily. Some of the messages are tied directly to Proposition 2; one student received a Facebook message calling him a "n-----" after he posted his opposition to the amendment on his profile. That student has now asked his peers to save similar examples as evidence that "equality and fairness does" not exist in this state."
AP - Lobbying world leaders, President Bush lined up support Saturday for pressuring long-defiant North Korea to prove it is serious about dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
AP - Coalition forces raided a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad searching for dozens of Iraqi hostages Saturday and combed through rural southern Iraq where four American security contractors and an Austrian were kidnapped. Both efforts appeared to come up empty-handed.
AP - Small flames flickered from castle battlements and hundreds of fans packed into a square outside Saturday as Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes arrived separately in this medieval town for their star-studded wedding.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair stirred up opponents Saturday after apparently admitting that the invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain was "a disaster." Blair did not use the words himself but appeared to agree with the assessment of an interviewer. Critics demanded he apologize for the war but Downing Street blamed a "disingenuous" misrepresentation for the controversy.
U.S.-led troops launched a new day of searches Saturday for five Western security contractors snatched at a fake checkpoint in southern Iraq. An Iranian-run TV station said it had received a claim from a group saying it had the four Americans and an Austrian, but no proof was offered.
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