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CBS News is planning an ambitious turn-of-decade look at America's position in the world that's also designed as an opening competitive shot at Diane Sawyer.
Skating to Stravinski and wearing Vera Wang, world champion Evan Lysacek embodied both athlete and artist at Skate America.
Medical supplies company Span-America Medical Systems Inc. said Wednesday its board of directors approved an 11 percent increase in the company's quarterly dividend to 10 cents.
To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension.
Preseason or postseason, Maya Moore is making a habit of racking up honors.
Luke Harangody should get used to being on top of lists.
Just a year after this one-time Confederate state helped elect a black man president, Democrats are desperately trying to hang onto the governorship.
Capping a year in which he faced shareholder fury, regulatory scrutiny and was stripped of his chairman post, outgoing Bank of America Corp. CEO Ken Lewis will get no salary or bonus for 2009 under an agreement with the government's pay czar.
RailAmerica Inc. said its shares, which begin trading Tuesday, priced at $15 each, raising about $330 million.
They became good buddies during the war, the young American soldier and his invaluable Iraqi translator, an easygoing guy who could spot dangers in the shadows and calm jittery nerves in the streets.
When many Americans who served or worked in Iraq came home, they left behind Iraqi friends whose lives were at risk because of their U.S. connections. Some soldiers and others, frustrated with the government efforts to help the Iraqis, embarked on their own rescue missions. Here are two of their stories:
Her mansion in Iraq was bombed, her medical career and future in her beloved country dashed the day she found a white envelope on her car windshield. Inside was a single bullet. Wassan Yassin was marked for death.
On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty.
There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale.
GM's Saturn division started out with high hopes a quarter-century ago, but nothing worked out quite as planned. The brand is being eliminated after a deal to sell it fell through.
Ken Lewis' legacy as CEO of Bank of America Corp. will likely be determined by whether his successor can do what Lewis couldn't: prove that the bank's messy acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. was worth the money.
While some were moved to tears by the president's soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those who felt he was overreaching in some ways and not reaching far enough in others.
The chief executive of coal mining giant Massey Energy blasted supporters of climate-change legislation and other environmental issues affecting the coal industry at a free Labor Day concert and rally in southern West Virginia.
South American presidents wrangled for hours Friday over a pending deal to expand the U.S. troop presence in Colombia, closing their meeting with a statement that foreign troops should not be allowed to threaten any of the region's nations.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has raised the stakes for Friday's meeting of South American presidents by threatening to break relations with Colombia over plans to give U.S. troops a 10-year lease on its bases.
Bank of America Corp. said Monday that credit card losses and delinquencies edged lower in July.
Shares of Bank of America shot up Thursday as a new executive at the bank, as well as a prominent hedge-fund manager, decided to place big bets on the company by buying up blocks of shares.
BBC News - Ahmed Rashid: Pakistan conspiracy theories stifle debateGuest columnist Ahmed Rashid on how the real problems facing Pakistan are being sidelined by a surge of conspiracy theories Switch on any of the dozens of satellite news channels now available in Pakistan.
50 Million of your family , friends, and neighbors, will go hungry this Thanksgiving . I know you already help. You make donations. You give to the Salvation Army bell ringer a quarter or two. Every year!
ZIHOP as Limited HangoutThe Military Industrial Complex did not arise from some flaw in the American character, nor indeed from Zionism. It arose, simply put, because capital requires more capital, power more power still. Powerful states act out.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Bogey nationRecently the monthly Herald published the results of an elaborate survey that it undertook to determine the extent of anti-Americanism in Pakistan. The findings suggest nothing that we do not already know. The percentages in this case hold only an academic interest.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Speaking fireA blogger makes a valid point in a recent blog on dawn.com.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Nauseous mumblingsRECENTLY I was fortunate enough to be a part of an excellent ten-minute news video prepared by the New York Times' reporter, Adam Ellick. Tastefully called 'Tuning out the Taliban,' the video has created the right buzz amongst young middle-class Pakistanis.
A little background first; I couldn't write this without first doing a little research. I went on 'topix.com' and other sites to see what the rest of America had to say on various subjects. I mined the 'blogosphere' for information.
Bill O'Reilly says "I don't care about the Constitution!"It's great when people reveal their true intentions.
Glenn Beck 11/21/09 - "We need to start thinking like the Chinese" [VIDEO]Didn't he just criticize Anita Dunn for thinking like the Chinese?
The terms "Afghan Holocaust", "Afghan Genocide" , Iraqi Holocaust", "Iraqi Genocide", "Palestinian Holocaust", "Palestinian Genocide", "Climate Holocaust" and "Climate Genocide" are absent on searching major MSM.
Obama asks for patience on economyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to show patience over the economy and argued that his just-concluded Asia trip was critical for U.S. exports, countering criticism he had returned empty-handed.
Afghanistan's bravest woman, Malalai Joya, calls on US to leave Occupied AfghanistanMalalai Joya, called the "bravest woman in Afghanistan," is finishing up a U.S. tour where she has pressed the Obama administration to pull out and says nothing could be worse for women than the continuing war.
15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart At The SeamsSome where Karl Marx is smiling a big "Told you so"
From time eternal people were used as slaves, one man owned another man. Then in 1776 a document was created stating that all men were created equal. Several years later a war was waged to make this dream a reality, and a few years later it was refought to insure it survival.
Muslims In 21st Century America: Violent Clashing CulturesMost Americans sit and watch with total oblivion of the march of Islam into America. In 1990, only 100,000 Muslims inhabited the United States. Today, over eight million spread across the country with over 1,000 mosques and growing.
An Abridgement of Constitutional RightsPublic officials need to take seriously their oath to uphold the Constitution. Just as important, the people of the United States, charged with electing these officials to public office, should spend time on this exercise.
Democrats risk taxing the wealthy for healthcare -- latimes.comReporting from Washington - Amid all of the uncertainties about how healthcare legislation would affect each American, one thing is clear: The more affluent would pay higher taxes.
CAIR and North American Muslims; The TruthCAIR said it was a "big surprise" this Imam held radical beliefs. Yet CAIR has no problem inviting speakers to CAIR events who advocate attacking U.S. troops, like American cleric Zaid Shakir who said:
BBC News - President Obama replies to Cuba's dissident bloggerUS President Barack Obama has engaged in an unprecedented written exchange with a blogger in Cuba who is openly critical of its communist government. His comments came after prize-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez sent questions chiefly about US-Cuba relations.
British PM Brown: UK faces a climate catastrophe of floods, droughts and killer heatwavesUK PM Gordon Brown warns that Copenhagen negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse", telling the Major Economies Forum in London there was "no plan B".
Secular America vs. the Catholic Church: An Ideological Faith-Based Train Wreck? -- Politics DailyThis.. Is a smart article on the legal wrangling in DC betwixt and between the government and the Catholic Church. Considering issues like the people who can get chewed up as collateral damage how it is and isn't legal, constitutional or timely, and why It matters.
New Statesman Leader on Copenhagen: World leaders need to become green heroes too"heroes ...who lead from the bottom up, corralling support for their cause by being passionate, committed and practically engaged. If the politicians can only delay and equivocate, we must take matters into our own hands."
Obama: 'We've Restored America's Standing' "I think that we've restored America's standing in the world, and that's confirmed by polls," he told CNN's Ed Henry in a wide-ranging interview this week during his trip to China.
Terrorists Inside US Increase Attacks, Senate Committee HearsTerrorist incidents over the past 12 months show that Islamic extremists within the U.S. increasingly are launching attacks against targets such as military bases, anti-terrorist experts said today.
Anwar al-Awlaki --- Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror Mr. Awlaki, 38, the son of a former agriculture minister and university president in Yemen, has never been accused of planting explosives himself.
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