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...advances across much of the country), while his authority doesn't extend much beyond the capital. And Karzai's proposals have been vague over how what is fundamentally a power struggle could be resolved through talks. Those are just some of the problems identified by skeptics of Obama's latest proposal...
...other words, economic woes that have long plagued those at the lower fringes of the American middle class are now hitting people near the heart of it (the median household income was $50,233 in 2007, according to the latest data from the Census Bureau). And they're hitting fast...
...United States has responded to North Korea’s latest moves with extremely diplomatic, cautious expressions of concern. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for North Korea to end its threats during a trip to the South Korean capital, Seoul, in late February. And after North Korea’s latest threats, the State Department’s special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, has taken his turn, calling the threats unproductive, especially as the United States was willing to reach out to the North Koreans and continue to build relations. These relations would presumably start with...
...gang activity, online predators or drug trafficking. Much of the funding for the large state centers comes from the federal government, including a new infusion of $250 million courtesy of the stimulus package to be spent by 2010 on "upgrading, modifying, or constructing" state and local fusion centers. The latest fusion center, the $21 million Port of Long Beach facility, opened last month. Staffed by local, state and federal officials, it sits on a small swath of land inside the nation's second largest port and utilizes state of the art surveillance technology, including cameras that can read a badge...
...when news broke late last week that two top nominees for the Treasury Department were withdrawing their names from consideration for undisclosed personal reasons, what ordinarily might have been dismissed as a harmless staffing snafu became the latest cause for unease among those watching Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Geithner - who at 47 still looks like the Doogie Howser of economists - has had difficulty filling out his roster of lieutenants; he wasn't helped when Paul Volcker, the old lion who got the U.S. out of its last deep recession, described Treasury's staffing woes as "shameful." (See TIME...