Technology executives are trying to shape the Senate immigration bill to meet their demand for foreign workers, but they have had only limited success.
Church leaders say they are frustrated by Catholic politicians like Rudolph W. Giuliani who say they oppose abortion but do not want to impose their beliefs.
Five summers ago, on June 24, President George W. Bush, in a landmark speech, offered the Palestinians his and America's commitment to support "the creation of a Palestinian state." America was in the throes of a campaign against terrorism; the Iraq war, as we now know, was in the planning phase. It was important for the Bush administration, or so it seemed, to set the stage for these two campaigns by a generous and forthcoming policy toward the Palestinians. This was claimed to be nothing less than an American equivalent of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which had pledged Britain's support for the creation of a Jewish "national home." Bush's pledge drew the right moral and political parameters. America's support was contingent, the president said, on leaders "not compromised by terror." The vision was generous and held out to the Palestinians the promise of normalcy: "You deserve democracy and the rule of law. You deserve an open society and a thriving economy."
As children burst into the long, lazy days of summer-on wakeboards, roller coasters, and all-terrain vehicles-parents may want to bone up on precautionary measures. Injuries in kids under 15 spike during the summer months, resulting in more than 2.4 million visits to emergency rooms and more than 2,100 deaths each year, according to Safe Kids Worldwide, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. The good news is that the death rate has decreased by more than 40 percent over the past two decades, thanks to bike helmets, seat belts, and alarms that sound when a toddler slips into the pool. But much can go wrong short of tragedy. Here are some ways parents can keep kids healthy without spoiling the fun:
Investing in "stuff" has been a pretty profitable way to play the ongoing world economic boom. Prices of needed raw materials—everything from oil to copper to lumber—have surged thanks to a commodity-gulping, global growth machine expanding at a zippy 5 percent annual rate over the past four years. And 2007 looks as if it's going to be more of the same. (Xie xie, China! Thanks, that is.) Mining stocks, natural resources mutual funds, and commodity-linked exchange-traded funds remain popular options for individual investors looking for hard-asset action. But those choices now have a rival: exchange-traded notes. "They look and act like an exchange-traded fund, but they're not a fund," says Morningstar senior analyst Dan Culloton.
AP - Firefighters launched an aggressive attack Monday to corral a raging forest fire that had destroyed at least 220 homes and forced about 1,000 people to evacuate near the popular Lake Tahoe resort area.
AP - A police officer is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend in her home, where furniture was found overturned and bleach spilled on the floor, a day after her mother last heard from her, a sheriff's complaint said.
AP - A suicide bomber apparently targeting a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni sheiks penetrated layers of security and blew himself up in a hotel lobby on Monday, killing four tribal leaders and at least eight others, police reported.
Militants will continue to target Westerners on the streets of Indonesia as the militants fight to impose full Islamic law, accused terror leader Abu Dujana told CNN. "We will continue fighting and we may use other methods," said the man with al Qaeda links whom Indonesian police call the most dangerous terror suspect they have ever dealt with.
Fire crews were hoping for a Monday morning lull in the winds that have been fanning a 2,000-acre wildfire across northeastern California, where it has scorched more than 220 homes and other buildings, authorities said.
A woman has been charged with obstruction of justice in the case of Jesse Marie Davis, a pregnant Ohio woman whose body was found over the weekend, the FBI said.
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