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Ask an Administration official what to expect legislatively this year and the answer will probably fall along these lines: reregulation of the financial markets, followed by the budget, health care and then green jobs. It is a massive agenda for President Barack Obama’s first year in office, and already some in the environmental community are worried that their agenda will be sacrificed.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signed a bill Wednesday repealing the death penalty in his state, his office confirmed. “Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime,” Richardson said in a statement Wednesday
A fire raged for hours in central London Wednesday, sending black smoke high into the air over the city. Twelve fire engines and 60 firefighters are on the scene, which is about half a mile west of St.
Sami al-Arian is no hero. Evidence introduced at his 2005 federal terrorism trial contradicted his claims that he was just a peace-loving academic targeted by U.S. prosecutors solely for his outspoken advocacy of Palestinian rights.
The number of people unemployed in the United Kingdom has topped 2 million for the first time in more than a decade, Britain’s Office for National Statistics said Wednesday.
Diab Diab lost an eye and part of a leg trying to clear unexploded bombs from the fields of southern Lebanon.
Members of Madagascar’s military stormed the presidential palace and overran it Monday evening. President Marc Ravalomanana was in another palace at the time, reports said.
Members of Madagascar’s military battled supporters of President Marc Ravalomanana outside the presidential palace Monday as the turmoil over whether he stays in office intensified.
They are an odd couple politically: a liberal Democratic Senator from the Pacific Northwest, and a conservative Democratic Congressman from the South.
Ty’Sheoma Bethea felt she had to speak up. Her school was crumbling, and Congress was not going to approve money that could be used to rebuild it. So she wrote a letter to lawmakers begging for help