... JUDY WOODRUFF: Everywhere we look these days, there's evidence of the tech boom, supposedly exciting, thrilling, wonderful for us all. Well, maybe not for all of us. One of San Francisco's legendary figures, who celebrates a birthday today, laments what it's done to his city. Jeffrey ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: This Christmas brought all the traditional celebrations of the day, but along with them, new calls for an end to suffering. The most ardent of those appeals came from the Vatican. The crowds who filled St. Peter's Square heard a holiday lament from Pope Francis. "There ...
Today in the Morning Line: Congress has two weeks left and some hefty legislating to do. Spending bill, Ebola, IS funding, military reauthorization, tax extenders top list of priorities Republicans do not want a shutdown Mary Landrieu accuses GOP opponent of preferring slavery to welfare for African Americans Two weeks to go - Congress likely...
I’ve spent so many years talking about lame ducks in the White House and Congress, and it’s never occurred to me to find out what the heck it means. It turns out it’s an old English hunting term -- something about firing at a duck without quite killing ...
WASHINGTON — A political gambit by an endangered Senate Democrat broke loose long-stalled legislation to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline as the lame-duck Congress returned to a Capitol where results of last week's GOP blowout are still sinking in. The move by Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu ...
... nearly 95 percent of its limes from Mexico, so when those damaging rains were coupled with an outbreak of a citrus-killing bacterium in the lime producing state of Colima, this year’s lime yield began to cause headaches for bar owners and tequila connoisseurs alike. Joe Hargrave, owner of ...
... Bryan Black, director of communications for the Texas Department of Agriculture, pointed to heavy rains in Mexico that have destroyed a large amount of the lime crop. “With limited supplies we are seeing lime prices skyrocket," he said Thursday. John Berry, who runs the Mexican restaurant La Fonda in San ...
Congress Returns to Washington to Aim For Balanced Budget in Lame-Duck Session
... Iranian diplomat present agreed Ahmadinejad seemed subdued. "It's because of what's going on back in Tehran," the diplomat said. The president is the lamest of lame ducks -- now in his last year in office, barred from seeking re-election last year, and widely believed to be on the ...
... after this study was presented in June and reviewed the literature, talked about the data, and as of September 2010, we stopped removing all the lymph nodes in women who meet the criteria for this study, namely small cancers, no abnormal lymph nodes to feel, and undergoing lumpectomy and breast ...
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