Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor are European cities safe – Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice: all are in trouble
Shuttered homes and businesses in downtown Detroit, Michigan. American cities and states...
Waste in U.S. Afghan aid seen at billions of dollars
– Mon Dec 20, 5:55 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Waste and fraud in U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan while fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban may have cost taxpayers billions of dollars, a special investigator said on Monday.
US executions drop by 12 percent in 2010
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press – 1 hr 45 mins ago
WASHINGTON – The number of executions in the United States dropped 12 percent in 2010, and the number of people sentenced to die is nearing historic lows, a report from an anti-capital punishment...
They have some things in common — the need to rebound from recent woes and to carve out identities against fierce competition — but CNN and the Tea Party Express would seem like unlikely candidates for a partnership.
In fact, Friday’s announcement that they will co-host a Republican presidential debate for early September 2011 in Tampa, Fla.,...
