Politics Jan 26 Hamas Wins Majority in Palestinian Government The Islamic militant group Hamas won a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, winning 76 out of 132 seats in the legislature, election officials announced Thursday.
Politics Jan 25 White House Accused of Hindering Congressional Katrina Probe Democratic and Republican lawmakers on the committee investigating the government's response to Hurricane Katrina accused the Bush administration Tuesday of slowing the inquiry by refusing to provide key documents and officials for questioning.
Politics Jan 24 Conservatives to Lead New Government in Canada For the first time in 12 years, liberal-leaning Canada elected a conservative government to replace the Liberal Party, a move predicted to improve strained relations with the United States.
Nation Jan 23 PBS Names New York Public Broadcasting Exec New President PBS announced Monday that Paula Kerger, an executive with more than a decade of experience working with public television in New York City, would take the helm of the national public broadcaster on March 21.
Economy Jan 23 Ford to Cut Up to 30,000 Jobs Ford Motor Co., America's second largest automaker, announced restructuring plans Monday that will cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs and idle 14 plants by 2012.
Science Jan 19 NASA Launches Spacecraft to Explore Pluto After two days of unexpected delays, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took off aboard an Atlas V rocket headed towards Pluto Thursday.
Politics Jan 19 Top Democrat Announces He Will Vote Against Judge Alito Sen. Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Thursday that he would oppose the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, joining several other senior Democrats.
Economy Jan 18 Tokyo Stock Exchange Shuts Down Due to Heavy Trading The Tokyo Stock Exchange shut down Wednesday following a flood of sell orders spurred by a prosecutors' raid on the offices of livedoor.com, a popular Japanese web portal.
Politics Jan 18 Supreme Court Sidesteps Major Abortion Ruling In its first abortion ruling in five years, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that a lower court was wrong in striking down a New Hampshire law requiring that a parent be notified 48 hours before a minor has an…
World Jan 16 Key U.N. Members Agree Iran Must Suspend Nuclear Program Russia and China agreed with the United States and its European allies Monday that Iran must fully suspend its nuclear program, but the countries stopped short of demanding the matter be sent to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.