President Barack Obama is continuing a bus tour of the U.S. Midwest to explain his economic policy, as he pushes back against criticism that he is not doing enough to spur the economy and address high unemployment. Mr. Obama is set to attend a rural economic forum Tuesday in the state of Iowa, a day […]
Obama Pushes Economic Policy on Midwest Bus Tour
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 2:50 am (UTC-5)
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Study: Coffee May Prevent Skin Cancer
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 10:15 pm (UTC-5)
Coffee drinkers may have another reason to enjoy their daily brew. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says caffeine can cut the risk of developing skin cancer by killing damaged cells that could turn into tumors. The study says coffee could even be applied directly to the skin. The researchers […]
Obama: American People Have No Patience with Washington ‘Shenanigans’
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 7:45 pm (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama, on a campaign-style bus tour of the U.S. Midwest, says politicians should not “play games” with the economy when there are so many people in the country without jobs. Mr. Obama was speaking at a so-called town hall meeting at a farm in the state of Iowa Monday evening. He said the […]
Tropical Storm Gert Misses Bermuda
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 6:35 pm (UTC-5)
Authorities in Bermuda have discontinued all storm warnings as Tropical Storm Gert turns away from the island, heading over open waters where it poses no further threat to land. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said in its latest bulletin Monday that Gert was 220 kilometers east-northeast of Bermuda, moving to the northeast with […]
Somali Terror Suspect Appears in US Court
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 5:45 pm (UTC-5)
A Somali man extradited from the Netherlands this week appeared in U.S. federal court Monday on charges of supporting al-Shabab terrorists. The court in Minneapolis, Minnesota indicted Mahamud Said Omar in 2009 for allegedly backing a foreign terrorist group and conspiring to kill, kidnap and injure people overseas. The indictment alleges that Omar gave money […]
US Releases Documents on Bay of Pigs Invasion
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 4:20 pm (UTC-5)
Newly declassified documents show that a CIA field operative accidentally fired on friendly pilots during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. The documents were released Monday by George Washington University’s National Security Archive. According to the papers, the operative fired rifles and machine guns on B-26 aircraft the CIA had supplied […]
Economy Expected to Top Obama’s Midwest Bus Tour
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama says the American economy has been affected badly by world events, but he blames Congress for deadlock over spending at home. At a town hall meeting at a park in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, Monday, Mr. Obama said the protracted struggle between Republicans and Democrats over raising the U.S. debt ceiling is […]
Economy Expected to Top Obama’s Midwest Bus Tour
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 12:15 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama is in the midwestern state of Minnesota, starting a three-state bus tour aimed at answering criticism that he has not done enough to improve the ailing economy. The president, who arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota for the start of the tour, is holding two town hall meetings Monday — one in […]
Google To Buy Motorola’s Smartphone Company
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 10:20 am (UTC-5)
Internet giant Google has agreed to buy smartphone maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Google offered $40 a share for Motorola Mobility, which is more than 60 percent higher than Friday’s closing price of the stock. The mobile phone manufacturing operations were previously spun off from Motorola as a separate company. Reports in the financial […]
Obama Launches Midwest Bus Tour
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 9:00 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama is launching a three-state midwestern bus tour aimed at answering criticism that he has not done enough to improve the ailing economy. The president begins the tour in St. Paul, Minnesota, Monday. He holds a town hall meeting in the town of Cannon Falls, south of St. Paul, expected to focus […]
