Sep 17 Military Not Doing Enough to Curb Alcohol, Drug Abuse, IOM Concludes It's been well-documented that the military has a significant problem with suicide, substance abuse and mental disorders in its ranks. Just this summer, the Pentagon reported an 18 percent increase in suicide cases alone in just one year. In… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Facing Uncertainty, Middle Eastern Christians Are Increasingly Emigrating Facing Uncertainty, Middle Eastern Christians Are Increasingly Emigrating… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming… Continue watching
Sep 17 It’s a Cub! National Zoo Celebrates Panda’s Birth EmbedVideo(4474, 482, 304); Mei Xiang, the 14-year-old giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, gave birth to her second cub on Sept 16. The cub does not yet have a name and will not be on display for… Continue reading
Sep 17 David Souter Gets Rock Star Welcome, Offers Constitution Day Warning By Margaret Warner Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter speaks with Margaret Warner at 'Constitutionally Speaking' in Concord, N.H. on Sept. 14, 2012. Photo Courtesy David Wolowitz for the N.H. Supreme Court Society. Not since comedian Bill Cosby visited Concord, N.H.'s Capitol… Continue reading
Sep 16 Iran Watching as U.S. Military Launches Exercise in Strait of Hormuz By David Chalian KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait | The United States, along with more than 27 other countries from four different continents, began Sunday the largest ever military exercise aimed at practicing how to find and destroy sea mines in the waters of the… Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch Brooks and Marcus on Post-Convention Politics, Foreign Affairs, and Fed’s QE3 Brooks and Marcus on Post-Convention Politics, Foreign Affairs, and Fed's QE3… Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch Four Years After Bailouts, Banks Have Bounced Back, Still Making Risky Bets Four Years After Bailouts, Banks Have Bounced Back, Still Making Risky Bets… Continue watching
Sep 14 Why Did an Obscure Movie Raise Such Ire in the Muslim World? By Larisa Epatko The violent reaction to a low-budget American-made film mocking Muslims raised a lot of questions this week. What was going through the protesters' minds? Are embassies secure? How could it have happened at all?… Continue reading
Sep 14 What Would the Automatic Budget Cuts Mean for Medicare? Medicare providers would see reductions of about $11 billion beginning in January as part of a series of automatic spending cuts set to begin next year unless Congress acts to halt them, according to estimates released Friday by the… Continue reading