Sen. Patrick Leahy has gone where no Democratic leader has dared go.It's time, the Vermont senator said, for Hillary Clinton to get out ofthe presidential race. "She ought to withdraw and she ought to bebacking Senator Obama," he told Vermont
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama forpresident Friday in Pittsburgh, sending a message both to the state'sprimary voters and to undecided superdelegates who might decide theclose race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Dan Pfeiffer, deputy communications
Five former U.S. secretaries of State on Thursday urged the nextpresidential administration to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp andopen a dialogue with Iran. The former chiefs of American diplomacy, who served in Democraticand Republican administrations, reached a consensus on
Twenty-three years after a Union Carbide chemical plant in India spewed poisonous gas in what remains the world's worst industrialdisaster, survivors are demanding a cleanup of toxic chemicals at theabandoned factory site that have contaminated their groundwater.On Friday, about 70
Intellpuke: This editorial appeared in the New York Times edition for Friday, March 28, 2008.Winter is coming to Antarctica, and that may be the only thing thatkeeps another of its major ice shelves from collapsing. On Tuesday,scientists from the British
U.S. forces in armored vehicles battled Mahdi Army fighters Thursdayin the vast Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, and military officials saidFriday that U.S. aircraft bombed militant positions in the southerncity of Basra, as the American role in a campaign against
Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was released on bond from a federal prison Friday, saying he remains upbeat despite serving nine months for corruption.Leavingthe prison in a black sport utility vehicle, he stopped on a roadoutside the lockup to comment.
When President Bush pushed big tax breaks through Congress in 2001 and 2003, Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) joined Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) and other Democrats in opposing them as fiscally reckless. But now thatMcCain and Clinton are running
Intellpuke: This commentary was written by Jean-JackquesMevel, Beijing correspondent for Italy's Le Figaro newspaper. Itappeared in the Le Figaro edition for Wednesday, March 26, 2008.Le Figaro's correspondent in Beijing finds that "Beijing is wrong about Tibet; the West is wrong
A mid-level White House staff member has resigned after informing officials of allegations thathe misused federal grant money for personal gain before he joined thegovernment, a White House official said yesterday.Felipe Sixto quit as special assistant to President Bush on
Plan that would give the Federal Reserve broad authority to overseefinancial market stability could expose Wall Street to new scrutiny,but it avoids a call for tighter regulation.The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress givethe Federal Reserve broad new
Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some ofthe worldâ ™s largest rice producers to announce drastic limits on theamount of rice they export.The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the worldâ
In Los Portales, a pink and terra cotta condominium complex inHialeah, Florida, full of hard-striving Hispanic immigrants and oftenharder luck, manyof Juan Carpioâ ™s neighbors are losing their homes. To the right of his ground-floor unit, two apartments are in
The Bush administration is finalizing details of a plan to rescuethousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure by helping themrefinance into more affordable mortgages backed by public funds,said government officials.The proposal is aimed at assistingborrowers who owe their banks more
Shiite militias in Basra openly controlled wide swaths of the cityon Saturday and staged increasingly bold raids on Iraqi governmentforces sent in five days ago to wrest control from the gunmen,witnesses said, as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly criticalof the
Two men are pursuing a lawsuit to stop scientists from using a giantparticle accelerator, claiming it could create a black hole that mayeat up the Earth.More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this countrycanâ ™t afford their mortgages
A senior commander in the Mahdi army said Friday the militia isfighting a battle for survival in Basra against a rival Shia factionseeking to obliterate it ahead of September elections.Fightingbroke out in Basra on Tuesday when Iraqi government forces launched
Will the Floyd Mayweather/Big Show match at WrestleMania 24 live up to its hype, and what type of gimmicks can we expect to see? Also, are the Chinese ready for the protests likely to take place during the Beijing Olympics?
The fallout in Germany from exposure to America's subprime crisis may turn out to be far bigger than previously feared. One major newspaper is putting estimated losses at a whopping 70 billion euros, while a prominent politician warns that the
Saxony and Saarland became the latest German states to water down new smoking bans this week. As other European nations push smokers outside, German states seem willing to let them keep lighting up.
