Archive for December, 2010

The American News newsroom voted the harsh weather of 2010 – snowstorms, flooding and tornadoes – the top story of the year.

BY ELISSA DICKEY

edickey@aberdeennews.com

The powerful Christmas blizzard that ushered in 2010 proved to be a foretaste of…

HONOLULU (AP) — There are those who crave adventure and spontaneity during their vacations. Then, there’s President Barack Obama.

More than a week into his Hawaiian holiday, Obama is proving to be a creature of habit, seeking refuge in the…

Moscú, 31 dic (EFE).- El presidente de Rusia, Dmitri Medvédev, expresó su deseo de continuar con el diálogo intensivo con Estados Unidos en su mensaje de felicitación a su homólogo norteamericano, Barack Obama, con motivo de la Navidad y el Año Nuevo,…

Nueva York, 30 dic (EFE).- A un día para recibir el año nuevo, los inversores neoyorquinos decidieron recoger los beneficios de un buen año para Wall Street en el que la principal plaza financiera del mundo ha recuperado los niveles de hace dos años….

Despite a strong showing during the lame-duck session of Congress, President Obama closes out his second year in office with a slightly lower approval rating than at the end of 2009, according to a Gallup tracking poll released Thursday.

The poll found…

If 2010 was a momentous year politically, it was also one in which not much seemed to get done, at least at the state and local levels — and much of the activity in Congress occurred during a last-minute flurry in the lame-duck session. That means…

Neil Abercrombie, a 72-year-old Democrat and former congressman who was just elected governor of Hawaii, is tired of hearing so-called birthers insist that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya or some other foreign land and thus is ineligible to…

1. U.S. economy

The first full year after the Great Recession saw the U.S. economy trudge forward, pairing double-digit stock market gains with growing ranks of the long-term unemployed in a protracted jobless recovery. Stocks continued a run-up from the…