Senate leaders to make last-ditch “fiscal cliff” effort
Report by Roberta Rampton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON | Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:35pm EST (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and U.S. congressional leaders agreed on Friday to make a final effort to prevent the More...
Gun enthusiasts pack shows to buy assault weapons
Report by Dave Warner Kevin Murphy ALLENTOWN, Penn./KANSAS CITY, Missouri | Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:25pm EST (Reuters) – Gun enthusiasts thronged to shows around the country on Saturday to buy assault weapons More...
In Kerry, Obama picks foreign policy leader, loyal stalwart
Report by Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:24pm EST (Reuters) – John Kerry gave up his presidential dreams after a narrow loss to Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 U.S. election, but More...
Protecting the Children Forced to ‘Walk Among Snakes’: Looking Back From Newtown
Column by Stephen Schwartz - In the United States, mourning and debate over the horror at Newtown, Connecticut, continue. Although the number of victims was fewer, even microscopic by comparison, the massacre More...
Putin backs tit-for-tat response to U.S. rights law
Report by Alexei Anishchuk and Timothy Heritage MOSCOW | Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:15pm EST (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin backed a ban on Americans adopting Russian children on Thursday in a feud over a More...
School murders silence “cliff” rhetoric as deadline nears
Report by Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan, WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:12pm EST (Reuters) – Mass murder in Connecticut silenced “fiscal cliff” talk on Saturday as the White House and Congress More...
Analysis: Mortgage break no longer sacred as U.S. tightens tax belt
Report by Margaret Chadbourn, WASHINGTON | Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:28pm EST (Reuters) – The U.S. tax code has many politically sacrosanct tax breaks and few rank higher than the deduction for home mortgage interest. For More...
Obama, Dobama, And the Price of Ignorance
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz India has hanged Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, for his involvement in the infamous terror assault on Mumbai in 2008. The Islamabad government, which subsidizes More...
Washington’s revenge
Column by M.J. Akbar When Abraham Lincoln was told at the height of the devastating civil war that his most successful general, Ulysses Grant, was drinking too much he wanted to know the brand of Grant’s favourite More...
Scope of Sandy’s devastation widens, death toll spirals
From New York City’s Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and officials on Friday faced growing evidence of widespread destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy, mounting anger More...
