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... risks. And it's important for us to act on occasion in order to make sure that the American people are protected. HARI SREENIVASAN: No U.S. president has ever visited Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb in 1945. Prime Minister Abe said today he has ...
... director Stanley Nelson tweeted, she was never an official member of the party. The Panthers had global support: With an unpopular war going on in Vietnam, many places around the world were outright anti-American or strongly against U.S. involvement in foreign affairs. So, tactically, the Panthers garnered support ...
... Baird found an eager partner in Steven Haist, a physician and vice president at the National Board of Medical Examiners, which develops and runs the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam. Haist has spent nearly four years organizing the effort and bringing in specialists from the Department of Veterans Affairs and ...
... percent of the GDP of the bloc have signed. That means U.S. ratification as the world's biggest economy is essential. Apart from the U.S., Japan and Mexico, countries in the trade pact are New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Peru, Canada, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia. The White House ...
... ISDS "a parallel legal system for corporations to privately enforce sweeping investor rights." Obama disputes those claims. "There is no chance, zero chance, that the U.S. would be sued on something like our financial regulations, and on food safety, and on the various environmental regulations that we have in ...
... province, stretching from the edge of Baghdad all the way to the Jordanian, Saudi and Syrian borders. Just 35 miles from Baghdad is Fallujah, where U.S. soldiers and Marines in 2004 faced the fiercest urban fighting since Vietnam. The enemy then was al-Qaida. Now it's a group ...
Today in the Morning Line: Details emerge of Obama’s request to Congress for military authorization to fight the Islamic State group A brief history of war power tension The U.S. hasn’t declared war since WWII, plus all 11 times it has Jeb Bush’s $100,000 a ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- In recent weeks, from Israel to Europe to the United States, civic and religious leaders and a cluster of survivors, have commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day and this year the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. Thousands of miles away, in the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia, every...
Today in the Morning Line: President Obama extends olive branch… to Democrats Eleven proposals the president made in State of the Union Fact checks galore - your links to the four best What was trending on Facebook, Twitter? A speech for Congress and past Congress: Depending on your perspective, President Obama was either cocky and...
Republican senators poised to lead major committees when the GOP takes charge are intent on pushing back many of President Barack Obama's policies, setting up potential showdowns over environmental rules, financial regulations and national security.
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