Gas prices rise for 10th straight day

March 19   Leave a Comment  

Gas are at a national high in Chicago.

Gas prices are growing, and there is on sign of stopping.

Government gets swamped with requests under FOIA, attempts to be more “transparent”

March 11   Leave a Comment  

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Agencies scouring for resources.

American woman arrives in U.S. after more than a year in Iranian prison

Sept. 19, 2010   Leave a Comment  

An American woman detained in Iran arrived back to the U.S. after more than a year. Sarah Shourd touched down in Washington D.C. early this morning from Dubai, according to Shourd’s media spokeswoman, Samantha Topping. Shourd then made her way to New York and held a press conference this afternoon. Shourd thanked the Iranian government [...]

Poll shows Americans think Iraq is safer after U.S. invasion

Sept. 19, 2010   1 Comment  

The Iraq war, is more abstract, there is no definition to it. To keep America safe, yes, to control the spread of Islamic extremists, yes. But how?

Israel bans iPad over Wi-Fi fears

April 16, 2010   2 Comments  

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No iPads in the Promised Land.

Chilean government tries to stop looting

March 2, 2010   1 Comment  

Thousand of troops are being deployed to different parts of Chile, a country recently ravaged by a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake, to try to prevent looting and criminal acts, Al Jazeera reports.

Your World in Focus 11: Organized relief can save lives in Haiti

Jan. 22, 2010   Leave a Comment  

Haiti. Just mentioning the country’s name makes people stop and listen, and hope what they hear is, for a change, good news. But there isn’t much in Haiti. People are dying preventable deaths, children are dying from broken bones. There is a lack of food, water and shelter for the Haitians.

Afghan election will bring victory for Karzai

Aug. 18, 2009   Leave a Comment  

A few weeks ago it seemed like Afghanistan’s main candidates for president, the incumbent Hamid Karzai and his former foreign minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, were locked in a dead heat, running side by side toward that coveted post; to govern a country rocked by economic troubles and war.

FARC commander extradited to U.S.

July 21, 2009   Leave a Comment  

At the time of his capture Ramirez was holding 15 hostages including anti-corruption activist and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who had been held captive for more than six years.

U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years ‘reform through labor’ in North Korea

June 8, 2009   4 Comments  

What bothers me the most about this, and I’m sure the families of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, too, is the certainty that these two women didn’t and probably weren’t even able to commit a grave crime, hostile act or espionage.

North Korea fires more missiles

May 26, 2009   Leave a Comment  

North Korea has fired more missiles just hours after the UN unanimously condemned yesterday’s underground nuclear test and the testing of three short-range missiles, the BBC reports.

It’s official – we’re in a recession

Dec. 1, 2008   1 Comment  

It’s been creeping behind Americans for many months, like a slow moving hurricane blowing winds of bankruptcy and foreclosure. On a day when the Dow Jones lost almost eight per cent, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially announced that the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, according to the New York Times.