At least 11 protesters were killed by security forces during massive demonstrations on Friday across Syria, witnesses and activists told AFP in telephone interviews. Security forces opened fire with live rounds to disperse protesters who took to the streets in several cities across Syria in response to calls for “Good…
In an interview set to air Friday, ABC’s Barbara Walters tried and failed to pull President Barack Obama into a debate with Sarah Palin. “You may have heard that Sarah Palin told me just last week that she could beat you if she ran,” Walters told Obama. “Could she?” “You…
Latest: Protesters, police in riot gear face off in Arizona The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona says he’s “not going to put up with any civil disobedience” when the state’s new immigration law takes effect. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that if protesters want to block…
Women candidates fared so well in Tuesday’s primaries that the Associated Press declared 2010 to be the “year of the political woman,” but for some, the ascendancy of anti-feminist Republican women looks more like bad news than good. For Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast, Tuesday’s primaries could well…
Sarah Palin’s popularity among conservatives may be strong, but even some of them seem to think she ought to learn a little bit more. That includes Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly. Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday, O’Reilly told George Stephanopoulos that if Palin wants to be a…
Colleagues of ten American Baptist missionaries arrested for child trafficking in Haiti say it’s all a big misunderstanding, but the Haitian government isn’t mincing words on the issue. “For me, it’s not Americans that were arrested, it was kidnappers,” said Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. Ten Americans, five men and…
Update: Dean tells Good Morning America that he thinks health bill should be scrapped: Video at bottom WASHINGTON — Following the jettisoning of both the public option and the Medicare buy-in provision, one of the nation’s leading progressive voices on health care reportedly said Tuesday that the Senate bill is…