Pentagon Braces for Automatic Cuts Among the early signs of tough times that sequester will bring: the Pentagon this month announced will not deploy the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman to the Persian Gulf. The timing for the massive cuts is bad. A c...
Historic University, City, Prepare for Kerry Speech This international dance group practices in the back of a local coffee shop - in a city that prides itself as being sophisticated and historic. The dances are from countries like Russia or Turkey, n...
US-European Free Trade Talks To Begin Soon President Barack Obama raised the prospects of a Transatlantic free trade zone at his annual State of the Union address. Because trade that is free and fair across the Atlantic supports millions of good payi...
Leaked White House Proposal Complicates Immigration Reform Effort What will become of more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States? An administration proposal leaked to a U.S. newspaper would establish a path to permanent legal reside...
Washington Week: Focus Turns to US-Pacific Ties North Koreas latest nuclear test will be a prime topic of discussion between President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The actions taken by North Korea cannot be permitted or condon...
Most Entertaining Documentary May Win The Oscar Dick Kirbys Oscar nominated documentary The Invisible War is a gut-wrenching expose on rape in the U.S. military. The film contends that since 1991 about half a million military men and women have been...
Thousands March on White House to Protest Climate Change Demonstrators formed a human pipeline Sunday, stretching from the National Mall to the White House, to protest an oil pipeline that would stretch across the United States, linking Canada to the...
Report: Superfood for Babies A new report says more than 800,000 babies lives could be saved every year, if all women began breastfeeding within the first hour of giving birth. Save the Children calls breastfeeding one of the best ways to prevent mal...
Horse Meat Scandal Spreads Across Europe The scandal started in Ireland and the United Kingdom in January, but has since spread all around the EU. DNA checks on beef have found that some products, including hamburgers, contained as much as 30 percent...
Orchestra Comprised of Afghan Street-Children Concludes US Tour This is Bolro. It is an orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel, first performed at the Paris Opera in 1928. The composition is played here by Afghan students in Boston, Massachusetts. Classic...
Missile Defense System Keeps Watch on Syria U.S. soldiers are maintaining Patriot Missiles. Since January, the missiles have been stationed at a Turkish military base outside Gaziantep. The city is 50 kilometers from Syria, where an an increasingly b...
Syrian Rebel Town Empties After Government Bombing There are almost no unbroken windows in Azzaz. Residents have given up replacing the broken glass because of repeated bombings by Assad's forces. The air attacks began eight months ago after rebels s...
US Troop Reduction to Test Afghans In his State of the Union address this week, the president put the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan into high gear ahead of next years withdrawal deadline. This spring our forces will move into a support role...
Oscar-Nominated Film Traces Journey of Ailing African Youngsters The film follows Rwandan cardiologist Emmanuel Rusingiza as he struggles to save young heart patients, some with just months to live. You know, sometimes when I go back home, I spend ma...
Conflict Threatens Mali Farming The conflict in northern Mali is threatening the countrys food security. Many farmers are among the hundreds of thousands of people whove been displaced. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said the next plantin...
