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Holiday Shopping Trends Reflect Income Inequality
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 16:16.In North Korea, young Kim Jong Eun will test age-old reliance on maturity
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 16:03.At 28 or 29, Kim Jong Eun, the new leader of North Korea, will be the youngest person ever to have authority over a nuclear arsenal. read more »
Wisconsin Union-Busting Drive Feeds Off Towns That Are Shrinking
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:16.The loss of power and people in rural and small town Wisconsin is helping fuel a showdown over government union rights and benefits. read more »
GOP-led House votes to repeal health care law
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 22:32.WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal last year's health care law, the first major rebuke of the White House by the House since Republicans took control of it this mont read more »
Feds charge Jared Lee Loughner with Saturday's mass shooting
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 17:53.PHOENIX (KGUN9-TV) - Federal prosecutors have finally filed charges against the man arrested for Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson. A press release issued Sunday afternoon said that the U.S. read more »
Clinton Reaches Out to Several Countries about Wikileaks
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 11/27/2010 - 19:44.U.S. read more »
Michelle Obama shakes it up in India with dance moves, big push for girls' education
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:30.NEW DELHI - When President Obama and his wife, Michelle, get into an argument, she makes her husband apologize first, the first lady told a group of low-income Indian schoolgirls, causing them to chee read more »
GOP: There'll be no compromise on tax cuts
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 22:34.WASHINGTON — Republicans leader in both the House and the Senate said Sunday there would be no compromise with Democrats on whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest taxpayers. read more »
Mexico's president opposes marijuana legalization
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:57.Prop. 19, the California measure to legalize pot, would undercut Mexico's fight against drug cartels, President Felipe Calderon says. He calls on the Obama administration to oppose the measure. read more »
Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:41.Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday. read more »
NYC to Food Stamp Recipients: No Soda for You
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:23.New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with the encouragement of both city and state health commissioners, is seeking to bar the use of food stamps for buying soda and other sweetened drinks. read more »
India students suspended for rude Facebook messages
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:10.A leading school in India has suspended 16 students for posting rude remarks about a woman teacher on the popular social networking site, Facebook. read more »
Afghanistan's Election: A Look at the Diversity of Headlines
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 12:32.Afghans have voted in a key parliamentary election. There are a number of articles from various sources around the globe. Here is a list of some of the headlines and what agency they come from: read more »
Massive fish kill reported in Louisiana
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 12:05.Recent Photo
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Student caught in middle: Dream of college awakes to the reality graduates face when here illegally
Submitted by bmidwinter on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 13:26.To advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, Miriam Torres is emblematic of the problems facing this country. read more »
Obama's speech on August 31 declares combat in Iraq over
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:38.Saying it is "time to turn the page" on one of the most divisive chapters in American history, President Obama declared the U.S. read more »
Israel to open peace talks with security, water demands
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 20:08.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources. read more »
U.S. and Russia Sign Nuclear Arms Pact
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 08:04.PRAGUE — With flourish and fanfare, President Obama and President Dmitri A. read more »
Obama tells Karzai to clean up corruption
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:11.United States president Barack Obama has urged Afghan president Hamid Karzai to clean up corruption and rallied troops to defeat the Taliban during a surprise visit to Afghanistan. read more »
Health Care Reform Bill Summary: A Look At What's in the Bill
Submitted by newscaster on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 10:05.Chief justice chides State of the Union as 'political pep rally'
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 22:51.WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Simmering tension between the White House and U.S. read more »
Eight Health Leaders Respond to Obama's Healthcare Summit
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 09:51.As he launched his healthcare summit Wednesday, President Obama said he hoped his televised effort to garner consensus for reform "isn't political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras and read more »
China Lodges Protest of Dalai Lama's White House Meeting With US Ambassador
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:33.Officials in Beijing have summoned the U.S. ambassador to China to protest President Barack Obama's meeting Thursday with the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. read more »
New Study Supports Abstinence-focused Sexual Education
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 22:51.A new study shows that abstinence-focused sexual education programs encourage a significant number of people to delay sexual activity, perhaps preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted read more »
How Scott Brown's Social-Media Juggernaut Won Massachusetts
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 21:53.Scott Brown of Massachusetts was sworn into the U.S. read more »
