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(Dec. 1) -- President Obama's speech formally announcing his plans for the war in Afghanistan generated an avalanche of opinion, much of it critical of one aspect or another of his strategy for winning the war. As a service to readers, Sphere asked experts from different political perspectives to ...
(Dec. 1) -- If you tuned in late to President Obama's speech this evening announcing his decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, you might be forgiven for initially thinking that George W Bush was still president. ...
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(Dec. 1) -- President Barack Obama made his case Tuesday for an intensified fight in Afghanistan, arguing to war-weary Americans that a temporary build-up there is needed to set up an exit that ensures long-term security. ...
(Dec. 1) -- How does Tiger Woods put his scandal to rest and return to being the world's greatest golfer? The world's greatest scandalmonger has a few suggestions. ...
(Dec. 1) -- Contrary to popular belief, the world is not searching the Internet mostly for porn. ...
(Dec. 1) -- President Obama's decision on how to proceed in Afghanistan is one of the most important he's likely to face in office. Unfortunately it appears that he will risk the success of his administration's new strategy for Afghanistan by providing less troop reinforcements than his military ...
(Dec. 1) -- When the going gets tough, the Iranians get prisoners. Or so it would seem from the Revolutionary Guard's seizure of five British yachtsmen in the Persian Gulf amid an escalating standoff over Iran's nuclear program. ...
(Dec. 1) – Americans found many ways to commemorate World AIDS Day on Tuesday. Prayer vigils in Las Vegas. Free rapid-result testing in Iowa. Even a carnival ring toss in New Mexico. But the atmosphere was hardly festive. ...
(Dec. 1) -- President Obama is in a tight spot politically on Afghanistan. But it is a bind of his own making. ...
(Dec. 1) -- The headlines on President Obama's Afghanistan speech have focused on the additional U.S. troops he is sending, but there's another component to the new strategy that is just as vital to achieving some progress and greater stability in that troubled country: the civilian surge. And ...
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(Dec. 1) -- President Barack Obama's plan to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in three years without yielding it to the Taliban hinges on training Afghan army and police forces. So far, after spending more than $6.2 billion on training the police and substantially more on the nascent Afghan ...
WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- Before the reviews were even in for President Obama's much-awaited speech on Afghanistan, it was clear he would need some unlikely political partners to bolster his call for more troops. And it won't be the first time a president has turned to the opposition when he couldn't ...
(Dec. 1) -- For months, aerospace writers have been hot on the trail of a secret drone rumored to be flying over Afghanistan. Now, a French journalist has successfully captured a picture of this mysterious unmanned aerial vehicle, which experts have linked to defense giant Lockheed Martin. ...
(Dec. 1) – Rogues, it seems, will be rogues: As she promotes her new book with an equally hyped down-home bus tour, former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been jetting to some stops on a Gulfstream II private jet, which rents for $4,000 an hour. ...
(Dec. 1) -- A new report today is being hailed as providing a boost to health care reform's prospects in the Senate, because it finds that the Senate plan won't raise insurance premiums for everyone. But wasn't the point of reform supposed to be to cut people's premiums? ...
LAS VEGAS (Dec. 1) -- The marketing manager of a pair of Las Vegas strip joints hit on the clever idea of driving a truck up and down The Strip with pole dancers inside a Plexiglas box to promote the clubs. Business doubled, but a political firestorm also erupted. For now, the Stripper-mobile is ...
(Nov. 30) -- You don't have to be mauled by a tiger if you want that ravaged-by-a-jungle-cat look. Take a look at 2009's worst fashion trends, so you don't get caught celebrating New Year's Eve in crop-circle leggings. ...
(Nov. 30) -- "Twitter" has been named the "Top Word of 2009," beating out such contenders as "vampire," "H1N1" and "Obama." ...
(Nov. 30) -- As the Senate takes up health care reform this week, a key sticking point will be the "public option" -- a government-run insurance plan that is supposed to help keep costs down by providing competitive pressure to private insurers. But a new report from the nonpartisan Urban Institute ...
(Dec. 1) -- In this new era of belt-tightening, a most-expensive anything feels decidedly out of fashion. But Tuesday, two new luxury projects -- a casino and a cruise ship -- will reportedly claim that title in their glitzy categories, while transporting their inaugural guests back to the bygone ...
