U.S. astronauts Ron Garan and Mike Fossum have completed the final spacewalk of NASA’s 30-year shuttle program. Garan and Fossum spent about six-and-a-half hours outside the International Space Station Tuesday. The two astronauts performed a variety of tasks, including retrieving a broken ammonia pump from outside the space station and installing a robot used for […]
Astronauts Complete Final Spacewalk of US Shuttle Era
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 4:50 pm (UTC-5)
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Mexico Arrests US-Born Man Linked to Drug Cartel
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 4:20 pm (UTC-5)
Mexican federal police say they have captured a U.S.-born man tied to Mexico’s Arellano Felix drug cartel, also known as the Tijuana cartel. Officials say 33-year-old Armando Villarreal Heredia, known as “El Gordo” , was taken into custody Saturday in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora state. Authorities have accused the […]
Obama Presents Medal of Honor to US Army Ranger
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 3:35 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has presented the Medal of Honor to an Army Ranger who protected fellow troops from a grenade attack in Afghanistan. Presenting the medal at the White House Tuesday, President Obama called Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry an “extraordinary” American soldier. He quoted a fellow soldier who said Petry shows that true […]
Obama Presents Medal of Honor to US Army Ranger
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 3:10 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has presented the Medal of Honor to an Army Ranger who protected fellow troops from a grenade attack in Afghanistan. Presenting the medal at the White House Tuesday, President Obama called Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry an “extraordinary” American soldier. He quoted a fellow soldier who said Petry shows that true […]
Obama Says Debt Deal Needed To Guarantee Pension Checks
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama says he can not guarantee that there will be money to pay millions of pension checks scheduled to go out on August 3, unless a deal can be made with opposition Republicans on difficult debt issues. He spoke in a television interview by CBS, which put some of his remarks on […]
US Businesses: Outlook Dire Without Debt Deal
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
Some of America’s leading business organizations are pleading with the president and lawmakers to raise the country’s debt limit. A coalition of business groups sent a letter to President Barack Obama and lawmakers Tuesday, warning that any default would have a disastrous impact on the economy, and calling it “a risk our country must not […]
Guatemala Arrests Two in Folk Singer Killing
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 1:35 pm (UTC-5)
Guatemala has arrested two men in connection with the fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral Saturday in Guatemala City. News reports Tuesday quote a spokesman for the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, Diego Alvarez, as saying one of those arrested had hired gunmen who carried out the killing. Reuters news agency quotes […]
US Businesses: Outlook Dire Without Debt Deal
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 12:50 pm (UTC-5)
Some of America’s leading businesses organizations are pleading with the president and lawmakers to raise the country’s debt limit. A coalition of business groups sent a letter to President Barack Obama and lawmakers Tuesday, warning any default would have a disastrous impact on the economy, calling it “a risk our country must not take.” The […]
More Talks Three Weeks Before US Hits Debt Limit
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
U.S. congressional leaders are scheduled to meet again with President Barack Obama Tuesday, with no signs of progress on a deal to reduce the deficit and raise the government’s borrowing limit. Tuesday’s talks come three weeks before the August 2 deadline, when the U.S. Treasury Department says the country will run up against the $14.3 […]
US Firm to Allow Copying of AIDS Drugs
Posted July 12th, 2011 at 11:35 am (UTC-5)
One of the world’s biggest producers of AIDS drugs says it will make some of them available for cheaper generic manufacturing, potentially boosting their use in poor countries, particularly in Africa. U.S. drug maker Gilead Sciences said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with the United Nations’ Medicines Patent Pool to allow other manufacturers to […]
