Expectations are high that Obama will nominate a woman. Though female jurisprudence is not much different from that of male judges, women tend to be more pro-women's rights and to tilt more toward plaintiffs in sex-discrimination cases.
North Korea announced on Monday that it had successfully conducted its second nuclear test, in defiance of international warnings, but the scale of the test remained unclear.
As job losses rise, the nation’s real estate disaster is shifting from subprime loans to prime loans issued to those with decent financial histories.
AP - North Korea defied world powers and carried out an underground test Monday of a nuclear bomb Russian officials said was comparable to those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The incident drew condemnation from Washington to Beijing and set the communist regime up for a showdown with the United Nations.
AP - President Barack Obama assailed North Korea Monday for new missile tests, saying the world must "stand up to" Pyongyang and demand that it honor a promise to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
AP - Barack Obama marked his first Memorial Day as president on Monday, saluting the men and women of America's fighting forces, both living and dead, as "the best of America."
When a Brown University adviser told Shane Reil, who expected to go to community college, he was getting a free ride, he ran out to the car to tell his mother. "She was crying so much ... she couldn't drive,'' he said. Thanks to the generosity of a Brown dropout who turned Jagermeister and other alcohol brands into a fortune, 49 students graduated Sunday with an education worth $180,000 each.
President Obama castigated the North Korean government today for conducting a second nuclear bomb test in defiance of multiple international warnings. North Korea's actions "pose a grave threat to the peace and stability of the world," Obama said.