Archive for December, 2009

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama was briefed Thursday on how a 23-year-old Nigerian with suspected terrorist ties almost succeeded in a Christmas Day airline bombing and how to prevent it from happening again.

Obama received the preliminary…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bank account is thin, but the future looks pretty good.

That, oddly enough, is the view of many Americans who predict 2010 will be a better year than this one, even if they fear that the U.S. economy and their own financial…

BATH, Maine (AP) — Cruising through the darkness in rough seas, the USS Ross encountered a rogue wave that smashed into the destroyer’s bow, sending a shudder along the entire ship that knocked sleeping crew out of their bunks and damaged the…

The Taliban has inflicted a devastating blow on the CIA inside a remote Afghan
base in a suicide attack that will disrupt US operations.

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — President Barack Obama’s family is spending part of the last day of 2009 watching the futuristic adventure film “Avatar.”

The Obamas visited a movie theater near their rented vacation home in Hawaii on Thursday morning for…

Remember when President Barack Obama got sworn in? How about when pirates took a U.S. cargo ship captain captive? See these and more top moments that made headlines in 2009. …

Americans will usher in the new decade less hopeful than they were at the dawn of the millennium in 2000, says a new national poll.

BATH, Maine (AP) — Cruising through the darkness in rough seas, the USS Ross encountered a rogue wave that smashed into the destroyer’s bow, sending a shudder along the entire ship that knocked sleeping crew out of their bunks and damaged the…