Nation Apr 12 Walmart announces plan to cut prices on some organic products Organic food sales totaled some $30 billion in the U.S. last year and suppliers can barely keep up with demand. Earlier this week, the nation’s largest retailer, Walmart, announced that it would slash prices of some of its organic products…
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Politics Apr 11 Obama names budget chief his choice of successor for Sebelius Updated | 11:15 a.m. EDT: President Barack Obama praised outgoing Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for helping to steer his health care law's comeback after a rocky rollout, even as he nominated a successor aimed at helping…
Politics Apr 10 HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign The NewsHour has confirmed that Sylvia Burwell, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, will be tapped to replace Kathleen Sebelius. _______________ Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration after…
Arts Apr 09 ‘Of thee I sing:’ A tribute to a 20th-century great Sky Jabali-Rainey, a 4th-grade student from Washington, D.C., dressed as contralto Marian Anderson Wednesday for an event commemorating the African-American singer's April 9, 1939, performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Nation Apr 09 Obama: Love defined Fort Hood victims’ last moments President Barack Obama eulogized the three victims of Fort Hood shooting spree Wednesday, returning to the site where just over five years prior he mourned with families and comrades of the 13 killed in another on-post attack.
World Apr 08 PHOTO: Ballot boxes travel via cab in Indonesia Ballot boxes are carried via pedicabs Tuesday in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in preparation of Indonesian legislative elections on April 9.
Nation Apr 07 UPDATE: Death toll rises to 33 in Washington mudslide A total of 24 bodies have been recovered from the Washington mudslide, Washington officials reported Monday.
Science Apr 06 NASA sets solar flare images to music NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has released dramatic video of a "mid-level" solar flare from April 2. [youtube:http://youtu.be/_8yPQEE2Dnk] Flares are short, powerful bursts of radiation emitted from the sun's surface. NASA says the radiation cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, but on rare…
Arts Apr 06 Author and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen is dead at 86 Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen died at his home on in Sagaponack, N.Y. of leukemia on Saturday. He was 86. Matthiessen was known as a novelist and non-fiction writer as well as for his work as an environmental activist and American…