Europeans Wary About US Election Europeans can't vote in the U.S. election, but, like people everywhere, they have a stake in its outcome. From economic issues to Iran and the war in Afghanistan, the future of Europe is very much linked to the United...
US Presidential Election Actually 50+ Separate Votes Election Day is held on the first Tuesday in November in the United States. In each of the 50 states, and in the District of Columbia, there are political offices to fill, ballot questions to resol...
Disasters Pose Leadership, Political Challenges for US Presidents Just a week before the U.S. presidential election, Hurricane Sandy battered huge areas of the U.S. East Coast. President Obama suspended campaigning to oversee the response. The electi...
US Looks for New Civilian Leadership in Syrian Opposition The SNC long looked to be the foundation of a transitional authority to replace President Assad. But Washington has watched with frustration at the opposition's personality-driven leadership a...
Candidates Spending Millions on Undecided Ohio Voters Halloween decorations in Ohio share the yard with political signs. Ohio is called the batteground of all battleground states and it could decide the election. The midwestern state is a cross-secti...
New York City's Post-Sandy Cleanup Crawling In the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, New York city is dealing with water in tunnels, electrical conduits, and in the basements of major financial institutions. On Tuesday, the Brooklyn Bridge was covered w...
China's New Leaders Face Economic Challenges China's modern cities are built on a massive scale, with architecture in places such as Beijing that ranges from avant-garde to out of this world. But, just above Beijing's busy street corners are signs of...
Informing Girls about Puberty Has Many Benefits Helping African teenage girls deal with puberty has the added benefit of increasing their attendance at school. A new study in the journal PLOS ONE says simple, low cost interventions can have long-term...
Numerous Global Security Challenges Await Next President For Obama, there have been security triumphs. We ended the war in Iraq, refocused our attention on those who actually killed us on 9/11. And as a consequence, al Qaida's core leadership has bee...
Gas Shortages Test Patience of Motorists Following Sandy A New York City policeman directs a motorist to the end the line at a gas station in Brooklyn. And quite a line it is. Drivers here are waiting five hours to get to the head of it. Police are o...
Hurricane Sandy Reignites Climate Change Debate Hurricane Sandy cut power to about 8 million homes, shut down 70 percent of East Coast oil refineries, and will exceed, economists say, the $15 billion worth of damage caused last year when Hurricane Ir...
Middle East Indifferent About US Presidential Election People across the Middle East have been roiled by political change for nearly two years, So it's perhaps not surprising the U.S. presidential election is failing to garner much interest. Few are...
US Presidential Election Has Global Implications If the polls are right, the 2012 election will be decided by a few crucial votes in a handful of hotly contested states. But far from being just a domestic ballot - Bruce Stokes at the Pew research Cen...
African-American Voters Express Opinions About US Presidential Election A solid turnout among African-American voters could lift Barack Obama to a second presidential-election victory, says political-science professor Lorenzo Morris. They will have a...
Mother Teresa Added to National Cathedral Human Rights Porch At the choral evensong service held to dedicate the carving of Mother Teresa, the Reverend Samuel Lloyd paid tribute to the Albanian nun who spent her life caring for the poor and the oppre...
