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 - With global anxiety spreading even faster than the new swine flu — and a vaccine still months away — health authorities are struggling to reduce the impact of an outbreak that can't be contained by simply shutting borders.
AP - Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is a Democrat again following a decades-long turn among Republicans, a defection that has the GOP warning about the perils of unchecked power only a few years after it controlled both the White House and Congress.
AP - Luggage and bodies were left strewn around a central California highway after a bus carrying French tourists overturned on an overpass, killing at least five and injuring dozens.
Behind closed doors in recent days, senior White House aides have been saying that measuring President Obama's first 100 days is the journalistic equivalent of a Hallmark holiday. "They don't mean anything," quipped one aide, "but you have to observe them." But the Obama administration is embracing all the hoopla, partly because amid all of the crises facing America, Obama's approval ratings are sky-high.
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."
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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