Dec 01 WikiLeaks Booted by Amazon, But Site Lives On After a morning of spotty service, Wikileaks reported Wednesday afternoon that Amazon.com had decided to stop hosting the controversial site on its cloud platform. .bbpBox10058229002272768 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/3147857/WL_Hour_Glass.jpg) #9AE4E8;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6}… Continue reading
Dec 01 Watch U.S. Demand Hampering Efforts to Combat Drug Cartels in Mexico Margaret Warner speaks with Nicholas Casey of The Wall Street Journal about how American demand for illegal drugs is stifling efforts by the Mexican government to combat cartels and end the bloody drug war. Continue watching
Nov 30 Mexico Dispatch: A Town in the Heart of Narco Country, Pretending It Isn’t BADIRAGUATO, Sinaloa, Mexico | The radio on the bus from Culiacan to Badiraguato was turned up full blast, playing "narco-corridos," popular songs with lyrics that spin tales of the drug trade. A few of the passengers were singing along, but… Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch Vote Fraud, Disenfranchisement Allegations Mar Haitian Election Twelve candidates in Haiti's presidential election have called for the results of Sunday's vote to be discarded amid allegations of voting irregularities. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Nov 25 President Obama Releases Plan to End Rebel Violence in Uganda President Barack Obama outlined a plan to disarm the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army in a letter and policy documents sent to lawmakers Wednesday. The documents request additional funding from Congress to eliminate… Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch Banks, Regulators Battle Over Scope of New Financial Reform Law Judy Woodruff looks at how banks and regulators are grappling over how to enact the new financial reform law. Deborah Solomon of The Wall Street Journal has more details on how the new regulations are taking shape. Continue watching
Nov 22 Under New Rules, Insurers Will Spend More on Patient Care Beginning next year, health insurers will have to follow a new set of rules that details how much money they must spend on patients' medical care, according to guidelines the Obama administration released Monday. The rules are part of… Continue reading
Nov 19 Secession in … Belgium? Imagine if the leaders of the Confederacy had appeared on South Carolina Public Television in late 1860 to lay out plans for seceding from the Union and attacking Fort Sumpter. A peaceful version of that scenario may be playing out… Continue reading
Nov 17 Guantanamo Detainee Ghailani Convicted on Just 1 Charge by N.Y. Jury The first suspect transferred from Guantanamo military prison to stand a civilian trial was acquitted late Wednesday of nearly every charge that he helped with terrorist attacks on two American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people in… Continue reading
Nov 16 Swiss to Vote on Deporting Criminals By Larisa Epatko BASEL, Switzerland | The small nation of Switzerland, which already has a higher immigrant population than most of its neighbors, is about to vote on a measure that could be another bellwether of anti-immigration sentiment spreading across the European continent. Continue reading