Mar 28 White House: U.S. Seeks to Be on ‘Right Side of History’ in Libya Intervention As President Obama prepares to address the nation Monday night on the American military role in the fighting in Libya, White House officials brought a two-fold message to reporters during a background session. First, National Security Adviser Denis McDonough and… Continue reading
Mar 24 Tsunami Prediction: What Can and Can’t Be Done to Save Lives This aerial image shows tsunami tidal waves moving upstream in the Naka River in Ibaraki prefecture on March 11; STR/AFP/Getty Images As horrific as the March 11 earthquake and tsunami were in Japan, they were exciting events for… Continue reading
Mar 18 Reporter’s Notebook: Syria’s ‘Red Lines’ By Fred de Sam Lazaro Poster of President Bashar al Assad in Syrian street. Photo by Nicole See Syria's government is not usually hospitable to Western journalists, and officials in Damascus' Ministry of Information seemed as surprised as my teammates, Nikki See, Tom Adair and… Continue reading
Mar 15 Margaret Warner: How the No-Fly Zone Floundered As forces loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi drew closer Tuesday to encircling Libyan rebels in their capital of Benghazi, President Obama met with his top national security team to discuss what White House press secretary Jay Carney said were… Continue reading
Feb 22 Medicare Investigation Prompts Reflections on a Mother’s Care Last week, in the largest nationwide bust of its kind ever, more than 700 federal agents fanned out from Miami to Los Angeles and rounded up 111 doctors, nurses, physical therapists and health company executives in nine cities. It was… Continue reading
Feb 18 High Tech and High Fashion as Obama Woos Silicon Valley Leaders President Barack Obama talks with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg; White House photo by Pete Souza The splashy news out of President Obama's trip to the high-tech haunts in the West is that the CEO of Facebook, Mark… Continue reading
Feb 08 If a Boy Scout Can Get Nuclear Materials, What’s Stopping Terrorists? DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s47f5qdbe', 'o0yB1gkiWyA', '29'); Back in the days when we thought a "dirty bomb" might be a raunchy joke gone awry, young David Hahn was gathering all the radioactive material he could get his hands on. But he… Continue reading
Jan 10 Sudanese Stream to Polls in Southern Secession Vote Congregants at St. Martin de Porres Church in Bentiu, South Sudan display their voter ID cards on their way to the polling center. (Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro) BENTIU, Sudan | It is a rare day in southern… Continue reading
Dec 23 Geeking Out on Words Just Got Easier ({ "base_state": {}, "video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBAvG6PZp5Y", video_config: { width: 480, height: 303} }) With the release of Google Books Ngram Viewer, diving through the rise and fall of a word's usage across 5.2 million books spanning several… Continue reading
Dec 20 States Move to Implement Health Care Reform as Fight Continues in Courthouses, Congress In courthouses and on Capitol Hill, the battle over health care reform is still being fought. Behind the scenes, though, in states all over the country, officials are quietly moving ahead to implement some parts of the law. Last… Continue reading