Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) began to make the case for using a majority-vote process to move the final piece of health care reform through the Senate and he slammed the procedure’s GOP critics. Known as budget reconciliation, the maneuver requires 51 votes and can’t be filibustered. In related news, Senate Minority Leader [...]
As foreign language courses are dwindling in schools across the US, the Chinese government is sending teachers from China to schools all over the world — and paying part of their salaries, to promote the language.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic’s icy relations continue as Haitian officials rejected an offer of 800 troops from the [...]
Drug money helped keep the global financial system afloat, the United Nations drugs and crime czar says.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hit in the face and knocked to the ground after a political rally in Milan.
Iran’s Supreme Leader has accused the opposition of breaking the law by insulting the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah [...]
The UN General Assembly declared that Afghanistan’s presidential election was both credible and sound, despite allegations of widespread fraud that led critics to question the vote’s legitimacy.
Wall Street bonuses to rise 40%.
The United Nations has said political corruption costs governments about $1.6tn every year.
China has pledged to give Africa $10bn in [...]
Afghan electoral officials Monday declared incumbent President Hamid Karzai the winner of another term in office, after canceling this weekend’s second round of voting. US President Barack Obama has urged Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to “write a new chapter” in governing Afghanistan, after its disputed presidential poll.
The total cost of keeping an individual service member [...]
Economist and Former Fed Chief Paul Volcker has suggested a sweeping reform to banking; commercial banks and their investment arms must operate as separate entities. But no one in Washington seems to be listening.
Surfing the Internet just might be a way to preserve your mental skills as you age. Researchers found that older adults [...]
A combination of severe food shortage and the worst global economic downturn has, for the first time, more than 1 billion people going to bed hungry every day, according to the United Nations.
A drought in Guatemala is increasing cases of malnutrition in the Central American country. Alejandro Lopez-Chicheri of the World Food Program: “It’s not [...]
