Jul 22 Oil Well Will Remain Capped During Possible Storm Federal authorities have decided that it will be safe to leave a sealing cap on the Gulf oil well even if all ships have to leave the area during a possible tropical storm this weekend, Coast Guard Adm. Thad… Continue reading
Jul 22 UNAIDS: AIDS Funding Faltering at Critical Moment By Talea Miller VIENNA, Austria | Global AIDS leaders continue to call for sustaining and increasing HIV/AIDS funding in the face of the global economic crisis at the International AIDS Conference this week. "For the first time we are seeing funding going down,"… Continue reading
Jul 21 U.S. Officials Visit South Korea in Show of Support By Larisa Epatko Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates toured the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone splitting the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday during a visit to South Korea aimed at showing U.S. support. Continue reading
Jul 21 Drug Use Accelerating HIV Epidemic in Eastern Europe By Talea Miller VIENNA, Austria | Europe now has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world, due in large part to intravenous drug use, the World Health Organization told the International AIDS Conference in Vienna Wednesday. The epidemic is disproportionately affecting Eastern… Continue reading
Jul 20 Lockerbie Bomber's Release Dominates Cameron Visit With Obama By Sarah Sullivan British leader David Cameron, who made his first visit as prime minister to Washington this week, used his time at the White House to discuss Afghanistan, the economy and prospects for Middle East peace. But at a news conference with… Continue reading
Jul 20 'Dispatch: Afghanistan' Tracks Counterinsurgency Campaign By Larisa Epatko Our partners at GlobalPost have a team of reporters on the ground in Afghanistan this summer, covering Afghan and U.S. military activities during this crucial point in the war. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Intel Chief Nominee Clapper Faces Tough Questioning by Lawmakers Gen. James Clapper, the nominee to become the nation's fourth director of national intelligence, faced a grilling by lawmakers Tuesday. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Philip Zelikow, executive director of the 9/11 Commission, and former White House counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch U.S. Intelligence Apparatus Ballooned After 9/11, Series Finds The Washington Post spent two years investigating the infrastructure of the government intelligence community in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Margaret Warner speaks with reporter Dana Priest on what was uncovered in the research for… Continue watching
Jul 16 Photos: Inside Guantanamo's Prison By Larisa Epatko With the number of detainees at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, steadily shrinking, military personnel there say the release of the prisoners is having a positive impact on those who remain. Continue reading
Jul 15 BP Holding Back Oil, for Now; Ticker Stands Still By Chris Amico News agencies report: Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT after engineers gradually dialed down the amount of crude escaping through the last… Continue reading