More than 800,000 people have lost their livelihoods in a four-year dry spell exacerbated by climate change and rising food prices. Almost half of them live in urban makeshift camps.
The president presented the military's highest honor Thursday to a soldier who was killed trying to save a comrade in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is looking at why only six Medals of Honor have been awarded after eight years of war.
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal warned in a confidential assessment that he needed additional troops by next year or the conflict “will likely result in failure.”
A central question is how to make health insurance affordable for people who currently do not have it, but affordability is in the eye of the beholder.
AP - Flooding from lines of thunderstorms and rain across the Southeast killed at least 2 people and left 2 others missing Monday, including a Georgia toddler whose family's mobile home was split apart by a swollen creek.
AP - Touting resilience in a part of New York particularly hard hit by recession, President Barack Obama said Monday that better economic days are coming thanks to innovation and some help from the government.
AP - Sanofi-Aventis SA will begin delivering the first doses of its new swine flu vaccine in the United States by mid-October, the head of France's largest pharmaceutical company said Monday.
Millions of items, including shampoo, saws, guns and meat cleavers, are confiscated from air travelers each year. Since the government expanded the list of items prohibited on airplanes after the 9/11 attacks, air travelers have few options but to surrender their Swiss army knives, cake cutters or whatever banned loot lies in their carry-on bags. Ever wonder where the items collected by the Transportation Security Administration go?
Torrential downpours overnight in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, led to floods that killed two people, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said Monday.
Florida authorities have requested federal assistance in locating a man sought for questioning in the deaths of his wife and five children, as he is believed to be in Haiti, officials said Monday.
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