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Housing Is Bad Enough, but Wait - It'll Get Worse

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:00:04 -0500

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Obama Plans to Create 2.5 Million New Jobs by 2011

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:37:19 -0500

President-Elect Barack Obama wants his advisors to develop an economic recovery plan that will include 2.5 million new jobs by 2011. (Photo: Getty)

Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:34:14 -0500

If you're having trouble remembering what the recent election was all about, rest easy: you're probably not going senile - you're likely experiencing the momentary effects of brainwashing. For weeks, your television, newspaper and radio have been telling you America is a "center-right nation" that elected Barack Obama to crush his fellow "socialist" hippies, discard the agenda he campaigned on, and meet the policy demands of electorally humiliated Republicans.

Once More Fear Stalks the Streets of Kandahar

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:32:57 -0500

Five years after his last visit, our correspondent finds the Taliban back in charge of their spiritual home - and girls attacked with acid simply for attending school.

There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue. Then there is another girl, a beautiful child, Khorea Horay, grimacing in pain, her leg amputated, her life destroyed after her foot was torn to pieces.

New Twist in Appeal of Ex-Alabama Governor

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:31:47 -0500

New accusations have emerged during the appeal of the bribery conviction of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama that could buttress Democrats' claims that the case against him was politically tainted, even as he prepares to argue against his conviction in a federal appeals court in Atlanta early next month.

Suspected US Drone Kills 4 in Pakistan

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:30:29 -0500

Isamabad, Pakistan - A suspected missile strike from a U.S. Predator drone killed at least four people at a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region early Saturday.

The attack occurred in the Mir Ali subdivision in the village of Ali Khel, according to local political official Muhammad Nasim Dawar.

The names of the victims have not yet been released. It is also not yet known why the house was targeted.

Carter, Annan, Others Refused Entry to Zimbabwe

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:21:34 -0500

Former President Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca Machel were refused entry into Zimbabwe to provide aid to the poor.

Geithner Said to Be Chosen for Treasury Secretary

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:07:04 -0500

Following a news leak that president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Timothy F. Geithner, would be named Treasury Secretary, stock prices soared 300 points. (Photo: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg News)

Sources: Clinton to Accept Secretary of State

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:35:41 -0500

Washington - Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat and accept the position of secretary of state, making her the public face around the world for the administration of the man who beat her for the Democratic presidential nomination, two confidants said Friday.

The apparent accord between perhaps the two leading figures in the Democratic Party climaxed a week-long drama that riveted the nation's capital.

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Sadr Followers Protest Iraqi-US Pact in Huge Rally

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:28:28 -0500

Baghdad - Tens of thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr packed a central Baghdad square Friday, where they protested a U.S.-Iraq security agreement and likened Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to fallen dictator Saddam Hussein.

Sheik Abdul Hadi al Mohammadawi read a nationalistic speech on behalf of Sadr, urging a rejection of any pacts with the U.S., charging that approving one would infringe on Iraqi sovereignty.