Archive for March, 2009
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Clinton backs talks with moderate Taliban
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday endorsed Afghan plans to hold reconciliation talks with moderate Taliban members.
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Activists seek to oust AIG compensation chief: report (Reuters)
Reuters – Activist investors are looking to block the re-election of American International Group Inc director James Orr, chairman of the insurer’s board’s compensation committee, the Wall Street Journal said.
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First results show tight race in NY ‘test’ vote (AFP)
AFP – Republican Jim Tedisco took a narrow lead over Democrat Scott Murphy late Tuesday in a New York Congressional election seen as the first voter test of President Barack Obama’s economic policies, preliminary unofficial results showed. -
U.S. House race in New York too close to call (Reuters)
Reuters – A special election to fill a congressional seat in New York state was too close to call late on Tuesday with less than 100 votes separating candidates in the race viewed by many as a referendum on President Barack Obama’s handling of the U.S. economy.
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Calif. GOP lawmaker to return Buddhist donations (AP)
AP – A California lawmaker plans to return more than $6,000 that two Buddhist temples and a related research group donated to his campaign in violation of their tax-exempt religious status, the lawmaker’s staff said Tuesday.
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U.S. budget debate becomes show-and-tell contest (Reuters)
Reuters – The partisan sniping over President Barack Obama’s expensive 2010 budget plan became a battle of posters and charts in a show-and-tell debate on the U.S. Senate floor on Tuesday.
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Obama, Medvedev to open missile talks (Politico)
Politico – President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev will likely commit to beginning new talks on reducing nuclear arms stockpiles to no more than 1,500 deployed nuclear warheads when they meet for the first time Wednesday, people familiar with the discussions said
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Commentary: What happened to ‘change we can believe in’?
Is there a better person than Paul Begala? Not on this planet. Beneath his proud partisan heart and chess-engine brain, there is an unfailingly generous, unswervingly decent human being, whom I am fortunate to call my friend.
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Lawmakers push to open travel to Cuba
It’s time for Congress to end restrictions that for more than half a century have prevented most Americans from visiting Cuba, a bipartisan group of senators said Tuesday.
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Obama and Medvedev seek new era in U.S.-Russia ties (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev will hit the restart button on U.S.-Russian ties by agreeing to begin talks on a new nuclear arms treaty when they meet for the first time on Wednesday.
