May 05 With One Day to Go, Election Still Up in the Air in Britain By Larisa Epatko Britain's major party leaders spent the final hours leading up to Thursday's general elections campaigning for the support of an estimated 4 million undecided voters. Continue reading
May 05 Wednesday: Officials Probe Shahzad’s Ties Overseas; Bear Stearns Execs on Hill A Pakistani policeman guards the locked residence of Faisal Shahzad in Peshawar on Wednesday. Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images. One day after the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old U.S. citizen charged with trying to detonate a car… Continue reading
May 04 Politico Reporter: White House Taking ‘Law Enforcement Approach’ on Terror By Hari Sreenivasan _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f1fqe9c',482,304,""); Politico White House reporter Josh Gerstein stopped by the Rundown Tuesday to talk about his coverage of the late Monday arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the attempted bombing in Times Square. Shahzad was… Continue reading
May 04 Thai Protesters Consider Offer of Early Elections, But Wary of Leaving Camp By Larisa Epatko Thailand's Red Shirt protesters on Tuesday cautiously welcomed the government's proposal to hold early elections on Nov. 14 in exchange for the protesters leaving their encampment in downtown Bangkok, which has disrupted business and civilian life for two months. Continue reading
May 04 Tuesday: Times Square Bomb Suspect Arrested; Oil Spill Cleanup Continues A New York City police officer stands watch Monday night in Times Square. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Federal agents have arrested a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan in connection to the failed attempt last weekend to detonate… Continue reading
May 04 Watch News Wrap: Death Toll Rises from Floods in Southeastern U.S. In other news Tuesday, record flooding over the weekend is now blamed for 29 deaths in the Southeastern U.S. Also, authorities prepared to close air space over Scotland and Northern Ireland again because of the Icelandic volcano. Continue watching
May 03 Iran Calls for World Without Nuclear Arms; U.S. Touts ‘Practical Solutions’ By Larisa Epatko Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking Monday at a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, called for a world free of nuclear weapons. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spoke several hours later, urged nations to focus on practical… Continue reading
May 03 International Treaties By PBS News Hour The nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States was in full gear when the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis brought the two powers to the brink of global thermonuclear war. Continue reading
May 03 Monday: Workers Try to Contain Spill; NYPD Releases Video of Bomb Suspect Eddie Soto, working with Resolve Marine Group, carries oil containment booms Sunday to the edge of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Sunday called the growing oil spill in the Gulf… Continue reading
May 03 Q&A: Addressing Mental Health and Trauma in Haiti By Talea Miller Nearly four months after the earthquake in Haiti that killed an estimated 230,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless, mental health workers are trying to help the survivors cope with their feelings of distress, loss and fear. Continue reading