The FBI wants to keep track of everything you do online and is putting pressure on ISPs to comply.
A revealing graph from Talking Points Memo shows a clear correlation between the recent slowdown in jobs lost and Obama’s presidency.
NYU is building a sister school in Abu Dhabi, but is [...]
The confirmed death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake has risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister has said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Jewish settlements blocs would always remain part of the state of Israel. His remarks came hours after a visit by US envoy George Mitchell who [...]
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Landmark health care legislation backed by US President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas. In related news, three years ago Massachusetts passed the most sweeping health care bill in the country, [...]
The US will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month’s UN climate summit.
A New York Times editorial slammed Goldman Sachs for its role in the financial crisis and said that instead of paying big bonuses to its employees it should make a multibillion-dollar gift to help reduce the US national [...]
Far from taking over as the engine of growth from an exhausted West, China is making matters worse. Its “beggar-thy-neighbor” policies continue to play havoc with global trade and risk tipping the world into a second leg of the Great Recession.
The European Union has said proposals by the Palestinians to try to [...]
Israel has rejected a move by the Palestinians to gain international recognition for an independent state.
US President Barack Obama and other world leaders supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later; France sees US as main obstacle to climate deal.
The leaders of the US and Russia [...]
Amnesty International has launched a scathing attack on Israel, accusing it of rationing Palestinians to a “trickle of water”.
According to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, the CIA misled Congress at least five times since 2001.
Democrats in the US House of Representatives unveiled a broad healthcare overhaul that would transform the insurance [...]
