In the first visit by a senior U.S. official in nearly five years, America?s chief nuclear negotiator was in Pyongyang today in an effort to speed up nuclear negotiations.
Jason Giambi of the Yankees issued a statement today that said he would meet with George J. Mitchell as part of his investigation into steroid use in baseball.
It's not just college admissions offices that treat boys and girls differently. Research shows that once they graduate from college and enter the workforce, men earn more money than women. Part of the reason for that wage gap could in fact be the decisions women make in college.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has changed his party registration from Republican to Independent, which everyone is taking as a step toward running as a third-party candidate for president. Bloomberg, whose income is said to be about $500 million a year, is capable of self-financing a campaign, and he has very good job ratings as mayor of New York. A mayor or former mayor of New York has not been a serious candidate for president since DeWitt Clinton in 1812. Now we may have two of them in the 2008 race.
How serious is a Bloomberg candidacy? And who does he take votes away from? Speculation about these questions is interesting, but I think the answers depend on who the Republican and Democratic parties nominate.
"I think attempting to bludgeon China is a very risky course," is how Larry Summers, President Clinton's final Treasury secretary and former president of Harvard University, analyzed—in a chat with me this week—the wisdom of congressional attempts to push Beijing into quickly raising the value of its currency vs. the dollar in hopes of reducing America's massive trade deficit. Summers is currently working with his cabinet predecessor, Robert Rubin, to keep alive the embers of Clintonomics—balanced budgets, open trade—through the Hamilton Project, a public-policy initiative sponsored by the Brookings Institution.
AP - The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - The administration was sharply divided over the legality of President Bush's most controversial eavesdropping policies, a congressman quoted former Attorney General John Ashcroft as telling a House panel Thursday.
AP - The Senate voted Thursday to increase fuel economy standards to 35 miles per gallon for cars and SUVs, the first significant boost demanded of automakers in nearly 20 years.
The U.S. military today reported the deaths of 12 U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq over the past 48 hours. The deadliest attack happened when a roadside bomb struck a military vehicle in northeastern Baghdad, killing five U.S. soldiers, three Iraqi civilians and an Iraqi interpreter. A U.S. soldier and two civilians were also wounded.
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