Archive for March, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will discuss economic stability, financial investment and building up infrastructure when he visits India next week, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

Geithner will meet with Indian Prime Minister…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is planning to travel to Rhode Island on Friday to assess damage caused by the worst flooding there in 200 years.

A DHS official says the secretary will be touring the areas hard hit by…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six major world powers agreed Wednesday to begin putting together proposed new sanctions on Iran over its suspect nuclear program after China dropped its opposition.

China, long a holdout against fresh international penalties…

President Barack Obama’s proposal to expand offshore drilling nationally has environmentalists fretting about what it could do to the country’s shorelines and wildlife, including Florida’s.

But because his proposal shouldn’t bring drilling near Florida’s…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a repudiation of the Bush administration’s now-defunct terrorist surveillance effort, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that government investigators illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of an Islamic charity and two…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior moved to halt fast-track approvals for drilling across the Rocky Mountains in a legal settlement reached just hours before President Barack Obama’s announcement Wednesday that his administration…

Sarah Palin’s Facebook page features a map of the United States with rifle-scopelike cross hairs on the districts of 20 Democratic members of Congress she wants her followers to take “aim” at in the fall elections.

Some people may be taking her…

Suppose I approached you with a request. I want you to carry a small gadget that will automatically transmit your location to the police, allowing them to track your every movement 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Chances are you would politely decline….