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<p>Headlines; Scrapping Plans for a Missile Defense Shield</p> (article)
Obama Scraps Bush-Era Missile Plan (episode)
Yesterday President Obama announced that he is scrapping the Bush administration's plans for a land-based missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. He's opting instead ...
Louise Story, finance and Wall Street reporter for The New York Times, has been keeping a close eye on the Securities and Exchange Commission as they propose new ways to regulate Wall...
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In a flashback to the '90s, when then–First Lady Hilary Clinton went out and stumped for health care reform, new First Lady Michelle Obama starts hawking health care today. She'll pit...
President Obama has decided to scrap President Bush's plan for a land-based missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. Critics claim that this would leave our allies open to harm, whil...
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President Obama campaigned on an agenda of change: change for health care, change for the environment and change for the nation. Ten months into his presidency, those changes have pro...
The outburst and apology by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), the public aftermath and charges of racism – some overt, some covert – have driven a national conversation this week. J...
President Obama announced yesterday that he is abandoning plans for a missile defense shield. President Bush had slated the shield for development in Poland and the Czech Republic, bu...
The famed moralist and writer Samuel Johnson was born 300 years old today. Randy Cohen, who writes The Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine, gives us his take on what the c...