The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women’s rights. Sirleaf is the president of Liberia and the only elected female head of state in Africa. She is running for reelection to a 2nd [...]
Online and telephone pre-orders for Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4S began in the pre-dawn hours on Friday, marking Apple’s first major product launch since Chief Executive Tim Cook took the company’s reins. Apple’s latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S, is now available for pre-order via AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and Apple.com. The 16GB device is selling [...]
Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-level United States-born cleric linked to al-Qaida, was killed in Yemen Friday by a United States airstrike targeting his convoy. Ray Suarez discusses the implications and legality of his killing with Brian Fishman of The New America Foundation and Juan Carlos Zarate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. United [...]
Lanterns have been lit at the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where hijacked United Airlines flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001. Former Presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton paid tribute to the 40 passengers and crew who died on the doomed flight – ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Al Qaeda terrorist [...]
A military helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops and 7 Afghan commandos. In the single deadliest loss for United States troops since the Afghan war began in late 2001, 30 service members died early Saturday when a helicopter carrying them went down while they were reinforcing other troops, officials said. [...]
A House Republican apologized to President Obama Wednesday for saying that being associated with Obama’s policies is like “touching a tar baby.” Rep. Doug Lamborn, (R-Colo.), made the gaffe last week on a Denver radio show, before realizing that to some people, “tar baby” is a racial epithet. Doug Lamborn on Monday apologized in [...]
