BERKELEY, Calif. -- CodePink should be turning red. That seems to be the consensus of many who were on the receiving end of a bogus announcement Tuesday by the radical anti-war group that the embattled U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center in Berkeley was caving to the pressure of weekly protests and leaving town.
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest ranking Black member of Congress, is warning on the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. that perceived unfairness toward U. S. Sen. Barack Obama in the electoral process could cause a relapse back to voter apathy.
As of Monday, March 31, 2008, at least 4,011 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,264 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
HONG KONG, April 2 - An executive at China Investment Corp, the country's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, defended its steps toward transparency and said the fund only targets a modest, single-digit investment return.
D.C. ranked third-highest in per-pupil public education spending compared with all U.S. states in 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, though it has consistently ranked lowest on test scores.
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled that evidence gathered against a Canadian man accused of ripping off American seniors isn't good enough to force his extradition to the United States.
As U.S. officials hunt for solutions to what many economists are calling the most serious financial crisis since the Depression, they might draw lessons from another painful and costly banking emergency.
The District's Child and Family Services Agency is awash in backlogged cases and is in "crisis" after thousands of new reports flooded the agency in recent months, a children's rights lawyer said yesterday.
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