Even David A. Paterson’s allies are saying he can not simultaneously govern, manage fallout from the latest scandal and lead the Democratic ticket this fall.
One in four Americans work for companies with federal contracts, and administration officials see an opportunity to lift more families into the middle class.
AP - The Veterans Affairs Department will re-examine the disability claims of what could be thousands of Gulf War veterans suffering from ailments they blame on their war service, the first step toward potentially compensating them nearly two decades after the war ended.
AP - Giving no ground, President Barack Obama and Republican leaders fought forcefully for their competing visions of historic health care reform Thursday in an exhausting, often-testy live-on-TV debate. Far from any accord, Obama signaled the Democrats were prepared to push ahead for an all-or-nothing congressional vote.
After 12 days of combat, U.S. troops helped raise the Afghan flag over the village of Marja today and military officials declared that major fighting was over in the former Taliban stronghold.
U.S. military commanders were upbeat, bolstered by the high turnout in the center of town to watch the flag raising ceremony and the swearing in of Abdul Zahir Aryan as the town's new administrator.
"What you see here is Afghan government getting under way and the hard work really starts from today onwards." Major Gen. Nick Carter said.
It's a remarkable combination of psychological warfare, political roundtable and trash-talking. Afghan soldiers and Taliban fighters taunt each other, debate each other and try to persuade each other almost daily over their radios, at times while even shooting at each other. I came across the astonishing facet of the Afghan War while spending time with the 302nd kandak, or battalion, of the Afghan National Army. The foes chatter with each other over their Vietnam-era, two-way radio system. It's such an antiquated system that the Taliban and the Afghan forces share radio frequencies, and verbal barbs, as they try to kill or capture one another.
A CIA drone attack last week killed the brother of a senior Afghan Taliban commander instead of the commander himself only because the commander decided at the last minute not to attend a family member's funeral, according to a resident in the area of the missile strike.
"Growing Pains" actor Andrew Koenig, missing since Valentine's Day, committed suicide, Koenig's father said after his son's body was found in a Vancouver park.
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