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Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 36 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Baghdad - Bombs, mortar rounds and rocket attacks killed 38 people and wounded 110 as Iraqis voted Sunday in an election Al-Qaeda threatened to sabotage, the interior ministry said.
Premier Wu Den-yi reaffirmed yesterday the government s determination to reduce the unemployment rate to below 5 percent this year, declaring this year job promotion year.
A skeptical Palestinian leadership agreed Sunday to hold U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel for four months, effectively ending a 14-month breakdown in communications between the two sides.
… n 2011, but it has been beset by disputes among the partners. No election date has been set. read more stories in World News
Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints Sunday from residents of Marjah, the southern town that thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops just seized from the Taliban.
US singer Stevie Wonder performs on stage during the 25th Victoires de la Musique yearly French music awards ceremony at Zenith de Paris on March 6, 2010 in Paris, France.
The big day is here. Anticipation for the Academy Awards has been building all week, and finally, it’s time.
Legislative watchdog Citizen Congress Watch yesterday released its evaluation of lawmakers performance in the past legislative session, with 10 Democratic Progressive Party legislators and 14 Chinese Nationalist Party lawmakers commended for their good work.
Premier Wu Den-yih yesterday defended the government s plan to grant women one-year pregnancy leave, saying the measure was a symbol of progress for a nation.
TERM LIMITS for all! No more career politicians! No more ’special’ benefits like premium healthcare insurance and read more retirement programs.
Last update: March 1, 2010 - 11:03 AM Monday morning, Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared unworried and unpressured by the coming afternoon vote to override his veto of General Assistance Medical Care spending.
One of the memes going around Washington is that Obama’s biggest political problem is that he doesn’t scare anybody .
One runway is causing a whole lot of problems at one of the nation’s most delay-plagued airports.
Al Gore now says the Himalayan glaciers story was just ‘one small error’. In fact, it was every green’s trump card.
Bill Hardiman says he is running for the congressional seat being vacated by fellow Republican Vernon Ehlers .
Make no mistake: If President Barack Obama actually wanted to be the post-partisan agent of Washington change, his health-care summit would have looked a whole lot different than the meeting he recently held across the street from the White House.
His Republican vote is news in the town where the partisan divide is colder and harder than a steel rod buried in Arctic ice.
After years of a stagnant economy, furloughs are nothing new to private-sector workers - including newspaper reporters! - and even many state and local employees.
Share + Feb 27, 2010 10:30 am US/Eastern House GOP Bill Senate Dems Bill President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward.
… to more individualized therapy for cancer patients.” The research was supported by grants from National Institutes of Health. Vanderbilt University Medical Center New Biomarkers for Predicting the Spread of Colon Cancer (Jan. 18, 2010)
… of the plant. “I loved that company. I loved the people who worked there.” There was no severance package, no more health insurance and no more stability. Joseph had to cut everything from landline phone to life insurance. No longer able to pay …
… missing: dental care. “We’ve been getting calls since day one for dental,” said Cindy Funkhouser, vice president of health services at the Sulzbacher Center in Jacksonville, which oversees the Beaches clinic. “It was a huge service gap here at the …
… bring prostate cancer sufferers together to talk. Gov. Mike Beebe appointed Blasini to serve on the Arkansas Minority Health Commission. With the commission, Blasini works with minorities on health-related issues.
… the Medicare Competitive Acquisition Program, the termination of organ transplant and HIV/AIDS contracts with United Health Group and an industry-wide AWP settlement. With exception to the lower-margin business declines, revenues from higher-margin …
President Barack Obama said Saturday he is ready to compromise with Republicans on health care if they are serious about it, but that an overhaul must go forward.
Those with little or no health insurance are much closer to haveing a one-stop shop for medical care.
But Ryan is right . Rep. Paul Ryan will be among the three dozen lawmakers at a White House health care summit Thursday.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda apologized personally and repeatedly Wednesday to the United States and millions of American Toyota owners for safety lapses that have led to deaths and widespread recalls.
The Senate voted Wednesday to extend for a year key provisions of the nation’s counterterrorism surveillance law that are scheduled to expire at the end of the month.
Toyota Motor Corp chief Akio Toyoda stepped to center stage in a sprawling U.S. investigation of the Japanese automaker’s safety crisis, apologizing to consumers and pledging reforms to skeptical lawmakers.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that U.S. diplomacy has moved China closer to the American view that Iran’s continuing refusal to come clean on its nuclear program demands tough new U.N. sanctions.
This June 10, 2006 photo shows a 1996 Camry driven by Koua Fong Lee that crashed into the back of an Oldsmobile Ciera in St.
Tom Davis never saw the bomb that destroyed his humvee as he rounded a corner in Ramadi just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006.
Stock futures are pointing to a higher open Tuesday as hopes grow the European Union will provide Greece with some support for its mounting debt burden.
As Senate Democrats look to pass a jobs bill before Presidents Day, experts say the debate is an opportunity to see if calls for bipartisanship will be answered.
“I am not an ideologue,” protested Barack Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last month.
Toyota will recall 437,000 hybrid cars globally to fix faulty braking systems on four models, including the Prius, adding to almost 8 million vehicles the company is repairing for separate defects.
The president’s proposed a package of small business tax breaks and new lending that he hopes will appeal to Democrats and Republicans.
It’s the Year of the Tiger, but Chinese fortune tellers say it’ll be a rough patch for the world’s most famous one: disgraced golfer Tiger Woods.
An effort is under way to have an upstate New York post office named after a 19-year-old Marine recently killed in action in Afghanistan.
Congressman Bob Brady says “There will never be another Jack Murtha,” adding “He went out on top of his game.” The Pennsylvania Democrat died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan.
Feb. 9–During his lengthy career in Congress, U.S. Rep. John Murtha earned the respect of his colleagues and even his political rivals.
Some New Hampshire business owners who are against a pending tax are holding a news conference in favor of a bill that would repeal the action.
Among states, California arguably has the most to gain from an overhaul of its health care system: it has the greatest number of uninsured residents in the country and the largest public insurance program for the poor, which struggles to serve 6.5 million people while reimbursing doctors at one of the nation’s lowest rates.
” The nation cannot afford Congress continuing to borrow and print its way into a financial Apocalypse to pay for unsustainable entitlement programs.
State Legislature needs more candidates. The filing deadline for the upcoming primary and general elections passed at midnight Jan.
Congressional investigators are escalating their probe of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles by examining whether sudden acceleration afflicts models that have not been recalled … and whether all Toyota vehicles should be modified so that their brakes override out-of-control throttles.
Longtime legislators Mollohan, Rahall face challenges. American voters chose change in 2008.
Comic Jon Stewart told Bill O’Reilly that the “no spin zone” ringleader had become the voice of sanity on Fox News Channel, although “that’s like being the thinnest kid at fat camp.” The host of “The Daily Show” and Fox’s kingpin exchanged some good-natured shots Wednesday during Stewart’s appearance on a network he relishes mocking.
