Jan 13 Creedon: Just Before Quake, 'Signs of Progress' in Haiti By Simon Marks Father Gerry Creedon, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Arlington, Va., has been visiting Haiti for 19 years and left Port-au-Prince Tuesday morning -- just hours before the massive quake struck there. Creedon arrived in Haiti on… Continue reading
Jan 13 Initial U.S. Effort Focused on Saving Lives By Quinn Bowman The top coordinator for the U.S. response to the massive earthquake in Haiti said the government's first priority is to direct resources toward finding and rescuing people trapped by the earthquake. The U.S. Agency for International Development's Administrator Rajiv Shah… Continue reading
Jan 13 Obama: U.S. Coordinating Swift Response to Haitian Earthquake By Quinn Bowman President Barack Obama pledged this morning that the United States would offer a rapid response to help Haiti dig out from the "especially cruel and incomprehensible" 7.0 earthquake that shook the Caribbean nation on Tuesday. "I have directed my administration… Continue reading
Jan 13 Haiti Relief Effort: How to Contribute By Jason Breslow For readers looking to contribute to the relief effort in Haiti, here are a few of the organizations collecting donations. NPR has also compiled a list, which you can find here: Hope for Haiti Now Action Against… Continue reading
Jan 13 Haiti Braces for Massive Casualties in Aftermath of Earthquake By Jason Breslow Haiti is bracing for massive casualties Wednesday morning as international aid groups scramble to piece together a response to the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck the island nation late Tuesday afternoon. The quake, the worst to hit Haiti in… Continue reading
Jan 13 U.S. to Dispatch Search Teams, Emergency Supplies to Haiti By Margaret Warner Early Wednesday morning, the U.S. government planned to take an aerial assessment of the damage in Haiti's earthquake zone near the capital Port-au-Prince and send search and rescue teams, along with food, water and temporary shelters. Assistant Secretary of State… Continue reading
Jan 13 Exclusive | Haitian Presidential Adviser: 'The Damage is Enormous' By Mike Melia The massive earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday afternoon devastated the capital Port-au-Prince, crumbling buildings and leaving roads nearly impassable due to debris and people flooding the streets. "The damage is enormous," Gabriel Verret, an economic adviser to Haitian President… Continue reading
Jan 12 Strong Quake, Aftershocks Strike Haiti By Hari Sreenivasan A major earthquake struck the country of Haiti on Tuesday, registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and reportedly centered 14 miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Initial reports indicate a hospital collapsed and… Continue reading
Jan 11 Tax on Cadillac Plans: Necessary Cost-control or Unfair Burden? President Obama is meeting with a group of labor union leaders Monday afternoon to discuss the "Cadillac" health insurance tax -- the tax on high-cost insurance plans that's one of the major sticking points remaining in finding a compromise… Continue reading
Jan 08 Shields and Brooks on Televising Health Care Talks, Obama Lobbying Rules By Hari Sreenivasan In this edition of The Rundown with Mark and David, columnists Mark Shields and David Shields discuss C-SPAN's push to have Congress' final health reform bill negotiations be televised and the balance of power between lobbyists and congressional staffers. Continue reading