Mayor Mike Bloomberg makes a $50 million donation to help the Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign. Meanwhile, Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein rally over a thousand demonstrators for civil disobedience against tar sands.
AP Images/Jens PanduroPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and radio personality Glenn Beck may have much different theologies, but they have a common enemy in radical Islam.Netanyahu spoke to Israel’s Christian supporters via a live satellite broadcast
Congressional Republicans voted to increase the debt ceiling 7 times during the last Bush administration. They now refuse to raise the debt ceiling, threatening a serious financial crisis for all of us.
In this debt-ceiling fight, I'm having horrible flashbacks to the Republican debacle over health care.Then as now, what could have been a negotiated deal turned into all-out political war.Then as
The scandal’s potential damage to News Corp. has already gone beyond News of the World. But will the company’s directors remember their duty to represent the interests of shareholders not named Murdoch? By Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large FORTUNE -- Some people aren’t at all surprised by the
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli navy on Tuesday boarded a French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists intending to sail to the blockaded Gaza Strip and forced it to go to Ashdod port, a military spokeswoman said.
Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over the Gaza Strip for the first time since the end of a 22-day assault more than two years ago. The leaflets, dropped late Sunday and early Monday, written in Arabic and signed by the "Israel...
Americans tell CBS News they're unimpressed with how Obama and Democrats are handling talks, but GOP fares worst Read more by Tucker Reals on CBS News' Political Hotsheet.
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Available exclusively at WWW.ORBOOKS.COM MIDNIGHT ON THE MAVI MARMARA The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israeli/Pa...
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of the $86 million cash haul raised by President Barack Obama for his re-election effort in recent months came from small donations of under $200 or less,
I reported last month that Australian climate scientists have been facing death threats and cyberbullying. Sadly, the video makes clear that this now extends to visiting scientists. Climate change has hit Australia harder than almost anywhere else, first with the decade long Big Dry and then the on
Ice extent (from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2011 in red). We’re at a record low Arctic sea ice extent and volume: The area of the Arctic ocean at least 15% covered in ice is … lower than the previous record low set in 2007 – according to satellite monitoring by the US National Snow [...
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of the $86 million cash haul raised by President Barack Obama for his re-election effort in recent months came from small donations of under $200 or less,
A few months back I had a quick exchange with President Obama about the U.S. standing in the Arab World. When I mentioned that we would be conducting a poll to assess Arab attitudes two years after his Cairo speech, he responded that he expected that the ratings would be quite low and would remain l
The United Nations' forecast of how quickly global sea levels will rise this century is vital in determining how much money might be needed to combat the phenomenon. But predictions by researchers vary wildly, and the attempt to find consensus has become fractious.
The U.S. House approved a provision to save for a year the 100-watt incandescent light bulb, which has become a pear-shaped symbol of personal freedom to some Republicans.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A massive heat wave is expected to develop over much of the central and eastern United States beginning on Friday with heat index values that could reach 115 degrees.The big story
Two Americans are among those rescued after Israeli naval forces attacked unarmed Palestinian boats for the second consecutive day. Israel's attacks on unarmed fishing crews who are hard pressed to earn a living, are on the rise......