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St. Paul — In the latest installment of “Under the Bus” — our chats with folks covering the 2008 presidential race — we talk to Rachel Maddow, who starts her own MSNBC show on Monday (while continuing her morning Air America radio show.)We chatted over lunch in St. Paul. Read more
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If it seems as though everybody, everywhere, has an opinion about the direction American foreign policy should take when the next president moves into the White House, maybe it’s because the disastrous policies of the failed Bush presidency have affected so many people in so many parts of the world in so many ways. That’s [...]
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Oscar Espinosa sabe que el camino más corto entre un inmigrante y su patria pasa por su estómago. Por 13 años, este inmigrante nicaragüense trabajó en equipaje y carga en el Aeropuerto Internacional Dulles de Washington, primero como maletero y luego como gerente para la aerolÃnea salvadoreña TACA que ofrece vuelos diarios entre Centroamérica y [...]
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St. Paul followed Denver as night follows day. Republican deconstruction artists quickly tore into the lofty images that Democratic campaign managers had spun around their guileful, graceful nominee. Two months of party warfare to come were methodically set in concrete in the past two weeks. Read more
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MOSCOW, Sept. 5 — The flagship of the U.S. Navy‘s Mediterranean fleet anchored Friday off a key seaport in Georgia around which Russian troops are posted, and a Georgian official said trucks carrying humanitarian aid from the ship would be passing armed Russian checkpoints en route to the Georgian interior as soon as this weekend. [...]
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BEIJING, Sept. 5 — Tens of thousands of angry protesters, many of whom lost their life savings in illegal investment schemes run by legitimate real estate and mining companies, clashed with police this week in Hunan province, residents and news agencies reported Friday. Read more
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Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) did not know that the Caribbean resort villa he purchased 20 years ago was financed with a no-interest mortgage from the developer and has generated $75,000 in income that he should have reported on tax and financial disclosure forms, his lawyer said yesterday. Read more
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LUANDA, Angola, Sept. 5 — Angola stumbled on the road to democracy Friday, as long lines and a shortage of ballots and voting officials marred its first elections in 16 years. Read more
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The Pentagon plan for future U.S. troop levels in Iraq now under consideration by President Bush resulted from a compromise at the highest levels of the U.S. military, with top Iraq commander Gen. David H. Petraeus initially seeking to sustain the current level of 15 combat brigades through June while members of the Joint Chiefs [...]
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By the time he was captured last month, the man known among Iraqi insurgents as “the Tiger” had lost much of his bite. Abu Uthman, whose fierce attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians in Fallujah had earned him a top spot on Iraq’s most-wanted list, had been reduced to shuttling between hideouts in a [...]
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Asif Ali Zardari has completed a traumatic journey from prison to the presidency of Pakistan. Read more
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government plans to put government sponsored mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under federal control, the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers reported late Friday, in what could be the largest financial bailout in the nation’s history. Read more
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The winner is expected to be Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Read more
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Large numbers of security forces guarded the Parliament building Saturday. Legislators in the four provincial assemblies also are eligible to vote in the secret ballot. Members of Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party expressed optimism. Read more
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A US Navy flagship carrying humanitarian aid yesterday steamed into a Georgian port where Russian troops are still stationed, stoking tensions once again in the Caucasus region. Read more
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TRIPOLI, Libya (Sept. 5) — The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s mercurial strongman. Read more
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A super-vaccine that could give permanent protection against all forms of flu is being developed by British doctors. Read more
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NEW YORK – Sandy Goodman was deeply disappointed when Hillary Rodham Clinton didn’t get the Democratic nomination, then again when she was bypassed for the vice presidential spot. So Goodman, a long-time Florida Democrat, flirted with thoughts of shunning Barack Obama, and perhaps even voting Republican. Read more
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details: “The couple [...]
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So at long last it appears that the brazen Illinois Lottery shell game is coming to an end after an inglorious 35-year run. Read more