With 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo Bay on a hunger strike and the military force-feeding 23 of them with feeding tubes, the situation at the detention facility has captured international attention. Read More
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One Fund Boston: ‘How do you play God?’
"It's Solomonic, really," Feinberg said. "We have four [families] who lost loved ones, four lives lost. We've got a terrible number of double amputees and single amputees.... And you try and allocate the money to the most seriously injured or lives lost." Read More
Google: North Korea and ‘the new corruption’
Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, authors of the book "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Businesses," talked about their visit to North Korea (which the U.S. State department did not approve). Read More
What we’re reading: Thursday, May 2, 2013
President Obama travels to Mexico for a trip he says will focus on the economic partnership between two nations, but will also involve some discussion on the immigration reform legislation currently in Congress. Read More
Could you live on $1.50 a day?
Around the world, nearly 1.5 billion people live below the poverty line. In an effort to raise awareness and funds to eradicate world hunger, Hunter and Beau Biden are taking the challenge of living on just $1.50 per day worth of food as part of the "Live Below the Line" initiative. Read More
What we’re reading: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
In The New York Times opinion page: Maureen Dowd picks apart President Obama's Tuesday news conference. The editorial board is looking at the next possible steps regarding the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Read More
Obama weighs options on Syria: I’ve got to have the facts
"There are some options we would not otherwise exercise that we would strongly consider," the president said Tuesday. Read More
What we’re reading: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The race to replace now-Secretary of State John Kerry in the Senate hits a high point Read More
McCain: Boots on the ground in Syria is ‘worst thing US could do’
Lawmakers continued to call on the White House to take action on Syria, but even one of the more hawkish members of the GOP stopped well short of calling for the United States to send in troops. Read More
What we’re reading: Monday, April 29, 2013
President Obama will nominate Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to replace Secretary LaHood as leader of the Department of Transportation. Read More
Drumbeat begins for action on Syria
While the drumbeat for U.S. action in Syria grew, the White House continued to urge caution as it examines intelligence that the country used chemical weapons on its people. Read More
What we’re reading: Friday, April 26, 2013
In the opinion pages: The Wall Street Journal editorial board says President Obama can't be exposed as a bluffer on Syria. The New York Times editorial board… Read More
Welcome to Twitter, @billclinton! (He already has 400,000 followers)
The 42nd president, always happy to have an audience, has joined Twitter--for real this time. Read More
Mike Rogers: Boston suspect read his rights too soon
House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and former FBI agent, complained that a federal magistrate had possibly stopped the FBI from gaining valuable intelligence by stepping in to advise the suspect of his legal rights. Read More
Syria at ‘red line’: Chemical weapon use confirmed
President Obama has said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a "red line" and prompt unspecified U.S. action. Read More
What we’re reading: Thursday, April 25, 2013
The presidential focus shifts to a former commander-in-chief today. Read More
Senators dish on White House dinner with Obama
All 20 women senators joined President Obama for dinner at the White House Tuesday night. Andrea Mitchell spoke with Maryland's Barbara Mikulski and Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar. Read More
What we’re reading: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani looks at the digital footprint left by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Read More
Guess who’s coming to dinner? The Senate women’s caucus
All 20 women senators were slated to join President Obama for dinner at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday, after New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand suggested inviting the president to one of the group's quarterly meetings. Read More
What we’re reading: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Immigration reform stays on center stage in Washington Read More


