Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
President Barack Obama heads to Moscow on Sunday promising a far-reaching effort to “reset” U.S.-Russia relations that hit a post-Cold War low under the Bush administration.
Obama is expected to clinch summit deals on the outlines of a new nuclear arms pact and improved cooperation in the Afghan war effort, but deep divisions will remain [...]
The head of the Organization of American States said Friday he has found no willingness among leaders of Honduras’ interim government to return President Jose Manuel Zelaya to power.
“They have, for the moment, no intention of reversing the situation,” Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza told reporters.
He said he had reached that conclusion after speaking Friday [...]
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office on Friday released a second sketch of a man believed to have fatally shot four people in less than a week near Gaffney, South Carolina.
“Let me say that, under the FBI’s definition of a serial killer, yes, we have a serial killer,” Sheriff Bill Blanton told reporters in Gaffney, a [...]
A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.
Kristen Diane Parker, who worked at Rose Medical Center in Denver, has admitted to secretly injecting herself in a bathroom and using [...]
Sarah Palin, the brash, deeply conservative governor of Alaska who crashed onto the U.S. national political scene last year as the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president, announced abruptly on Friday she was resigning as governor.
In a rambling statement to the media, in which she took no questions, Palin, 45, indicated she wanted to [...]
The US president has cautioned Russia’s government against using “old Cold War approaches” when dealing with Washington, saying that such strategies are outdated.
Barack Obama said, in an interview with the Associated Press news agency, that Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, “has one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the [...]
An interim government in Honduras warned ousted President Manuel Zelaya to stay away but indicated it could be more conciliatory in talks on Friday with the Organization of American States over the country’s crisis.
Roberto Micheletti, head of a caretaker leadership set up after an army coup, said he welcomed the chance to talk with [...]
World stocks slipped from the previous day’s two-week high while the dollar rose broadly on Thursday as investors looked to a closely-watched U.S. employment report to gauge the state of economic recovery.
The world’s biggest economy is expected to have lost 363,000 non-farm jobs in June, while the unemployment rate is expected to tick up [...]
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The Honduran interim government defied international pressure on Wednesday and vowed there was “no chance at all” of ousted President Manuel Zelaya returning to office.
World leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have told the new rulers of the Central American country to restore Zelaya, a leftist who [...]
Karl Malden, the acting great who worked the Waterfront with Marlon Brando and patroled The Streets of San Francisco with Michael Douglas, died today at 97.
Malden passed away from natural causes at his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, daughter Mila Doerner told the Los Angeles Times.
While Gen Xers may know Malden best as [...]
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