Archive for June, 2009

Michael Jackson’s memorial at the Apollo Theater yesterday was, like nearly everything else in his life, a singular spectacle, filled with sing-alongs and stomping feet, lots of dancing and a few tears.

It was more of a dance party than a wake at the…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The interim president of Honduras vowed Tuesday not to resign the post he took over following a military coup and claimed that only an armed invasion would restore his ousted predecessor to power.

Roberto Micheletti…

President Obama, pushing a key part of his overhaul of financial regulations, sent to Congress a draft bill that would create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which he said would better protect Americans from unscrupulous practices and make…

President Barack Obama was handed a major boost to his efforts to push an ambitious array of legislation through Congress when Democrat Al Franken was declared the winner of an eightmonth battle over a Minnesota Senate seat.

See some photos of Cabinet Members taking part in United We Serve last week.

Lawyers for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the former Guantánamo detainee now awaiting trial in federal court in Manhattan, have asked a judge to require CIA Director Leon Panetta to preserve so-called “black sites” at which Ghailani was questioned.

Ghailani…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday he wants to make the law prohibiting gays from serving openly in the armed forces “more humane” until Congress eventually repeals it. He said he has lawyers studying ways the law might be…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad’s background track. Left alone to protect the capital Tuesday were thousands of Iraqi troops and police…