Politics Aug 25 Huntsman: I Wouldn’t Hesitate to Call on Rich to Sacrifice In an interview Thursday morning with The PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown, GOP presidential hopeful and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said Americans of all income levels -- including the wealthy -- will need to share sacrifices to revive the American…
World Aug 24 Category 3 Hurricane Irene Moves Toward East Coast Evacuations were in progress Wednesday on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island as Hurricane Irene, which strengthened to a Category 3, bore down on the Bahamas before on its way north toward the East Coast, where it will likely hit this weekend.
World Aug 24 Rebels Work to Secure Gains, Hunt Gadhafi Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images. 5:15 p.m. ET | Rebels have offered a $2 million reward for anyone who tracks Gadhafi's location. Anyone who captures or even kills him would be offered amnesty. Sniper fire and other attacks by…
World Aug 23 Gadhafi’s Compound Breached by Rebels Updated 5:40 a.m. ET | One NATO official described the battle as "not over yet, although it's close," according to CNN. Late into the night rebels were seen seizing items from Gadhafi's compound, including his golf cart and Bedouin…
World Aug 23 Charges Against Former IMF Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn Dropped A New York judge has formally dropped sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, bringing the highly publicized criminal complaint against him to a close. Prosecutors had filed for dismissal because of concerns that…
World Aug 22 Libyan Rebels Claim Swaths of Tripoli, Heavy Fighting at Gadhafi Compound Updated 2:30 p.m. ET | President Obama said in a statement Monday afternoon that "it's clear that Gadhafi's rule is over" despite the continued fighting in Tripoli between rebels and forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. // He said…
World Aug 19 British Compound in Kabul Attacked; Israel Launches Air Strikes in Gaza An Afghan security officer runs past British armoured vehicles at the site of a suicide attack and a clash at the British Council in Kabul on Friday. Photo by Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images. Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a British…
World Aug 18 Secretary Clinton: ‘Time for Assad to Get out of the Way’ // After months of protests in Syria and a brutal crackdown by the government of President Bashar Assad, the Obama administration has called on Assad to leave office. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that "for months the world…
World Aug 18 Attacks in Israel Kill 6, Injure Dozens; Biden Praises U.S. Ties With China At least six people are dead and dozens more wounded after heavily armed gunmen launched three successive attacks targeting a civilian bus, military vehicle and another car in southern Israel near the border with Egypt on Thursday. A spokeswoman…
World Aug 16 Insurgents Kill 7 Near Baghdad, Gadhafi’s Forces Launch Scud Missile at Rebels Following on the heels of a series of bombings in more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday that killed more than 60 people, insurgents dressed in military uniforms pulled seven people from a Sunni mosque in Youssifiyah and executed…