AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Sunday endorsed spending an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment as it prepared to send Congress a $3.8 trillion budget that would provide billions more to pull the country out of the Great Recession while increasing taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending [...]
AP Special Correspondent CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — For a president in political trouble, the State of the Union address seems the ideal launch site to get past it and get going. But that seldom has worked as planned. Now President Barack Obama is trying to make a go of his “we don’t quit†campaign for [...]
JERUSALEM — An Israeli newspaper says the military has disciplined two high-ranking officers for approving the use of white phosphorus shells at the end of the Gaza war last year. Haaretz says a military probe concluded the Gaza division commander and a brigade commander endangered human life by firing the highly incendiary munitions toward a [...]
Associated Press Writer SHENZHEN, China — The Chinese businessman battled for years to get cities to reveal their budgets, but his quest seemed quixotic in a country notorious for keeping citizens in the dark. Then China did what would once have been unthinkable — it enacted an open-government policy, and last fall Wu Junliang pressed [...]
Associated Press Writer CARACAS, Venezuela — A new slogan appearing on the T-shirts and banners of anti-government protesters in Venezuela sums up a growing sentiment about President Hugo Chavez after 11 years in power: “You’re struck out.†The list of strikes against Chavez keeps growing: Latin America’s worst inflation, increased blackouts, runaway violent crime and [...]
Associated Press Writer KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — NATO and Afghan forces killed seven militants in a gunbattle in the south of the country, the Afghan army said today. The troops were on patrol in Helmand province Sunday when they came under attack and returned fire, said Gen. Sher Mohammad Zazi, the army commander for southern Afghanistan. [...]
Giving of time and resources without the expectation of reward can be very soul satisfying. However, I’m aware that for some of us to get motivated to help our fellow man we sometimes need to have a carrot dangled before us. Well, Disney is dangling that carrot. This year Disney has a program called “Give [...]
Surveys are instructive. Not so much for what they tell us (31 percent of Americans believe in ESP, 34 percent of baseball fans like the DH rule, 18 percent of people believe the sun revolves around the Earth), but for how they are so often abused to get desired results. I learn from them. Not [...]
AP Business Writer TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. said it will give details early today in the U.S. on how it plans to fix gas pedals in more than 2 million vehicles being recalled there, as the Japanese automaker struggles to reassure anxious owners. The plan will come in a release at 6:30 a.m EST [...]
AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES — Beyonce became the most decorated female on a Grammy night as she collected six trophies, including song of the year for her anthem “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),†but it was another diva — Taylor Swift — who nabbed the top honor, album of the year, for [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — About 250 people received free H1N1 flu vaccinations Sunday afternoon at Guru Nanak Sikh Temple, said Scott Haskins, a Solano County Public Health official. Solano County Public Health provided the vaccines and medical staff for the event, and the temple provided free food. “I thought it was pretty cool they had [...]
Daily Republic SUISUN CITY — As the sun shone overhead, Sierra Cook, 12, and Robert Perry, 13, took advantage of the nice weather to hang out Sunday afternoon at Hall Park. “It was annoying to try to ride my bike in the rain because the water gets in my eyes and stuff,†Perry, of Suisun [...]
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