Commanders are planning to cut off the Taliban’s main source of money, Afghanistan’s multimillion-dollar opium crop, by doubling the number of troops in three provinces.
For a new president, the automobile industry crisis has tested the boundaries of President Obama’s activist approach and the acuity of his political instincts.
The decision by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to switch parties potentially presents Democrats with a 60th vote and the power to break Senate filibusters.
AP - The toll from the swine flu epidemic appears to be stabilizing in Mexico, the health secretary said late Tuesday, with only seven more suspected deaths. But health officials said they "fully expect" to see U.S. deaths as the virus keeps spreading around the world.
AP - A bus carrying French tourists overturned on a central California highway overpass Tuesday afternoon, killing at least five and injuring dozens of others, authorities said.
AP - Veteran Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched parties Tuesday with a suddenness that seemed to stun the Senate, a moderate's defection that pushed Democrats to within a vote of the 60 needed to overcome filibusters and enact President Barack Obama's top legislative priorities.
A "furious" President Obama has ordered a review of the decision to fly a Boeing 747 close to the lower Manhattan skyline for a photo shoot, the White House said Tuesday. A 911 call released by the Hudson County Sheriff's Department in New Jersey shows the panic caused by the plane. "There's a plane falling; there is a big aircraft falling like 9/11," a man says to the operator. "Everybody is running and people are crying and panicking."
Judging by the hysterical reaction in some quarters, to President Obama's handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, or his bow to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, you would think that America's national security rested solely on body language not sound policy.
Veteran Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party on Tuesday, saying he has found himself increasingly "at odds with the Republican philosophy." The switch puts Senate Democrats one vote shy of a filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats. They can reach the 60-seat mark if Al Franken holds his current lead in the disputed Minnesota Senate race.
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