During a September round-table with Hispanic journalists, President Obama was asked whether he was concerned about a backlash from his administration unilaterally easing sanctions towards Cuba despite the fact that the Castros’ regime is still holding American development worker Alan Gross as its hostage. The president replied that he thinks easing sanctions is an “adequate” [...]
The global activist hacking group Anonymous claims to have obtained thousands of credit card numbers and personal information from the high-profile clients of a leading analytical intelligence company, all in the name of charity. Up to $1 million was reportedly stolen from Stratfor, in Austin, Texas, a leading provider of military, economic and political analysis [...]
A radical Muslim sect has claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on churches in Nigeria during Christmas Day services in which at least 30 people have died. The first explosion ripped through St Theresa Catholic Church in Madala on the outskirts of the capital Abuja. Rescue workers recovered at least 25 bodies from the church, [...]
Associated Press= CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Barack Obama’s sharp criticisms of Venezuela’s human rights record and its ties to Iran are heightening tensions with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who on Monday responded by calling Obama a “clown” and telling him to mind his own business. Obama appeared to stiffen his stance toward Chavez in [...]
SEOUL, South Korea – Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s longtime leader, has died at 69 of a heart attack, state TV reported on Monday in a “special broadcast.” State media reported that Kim suffered the heart attack while riding a train on Dec. 17, and that he had been treated for cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases [...]
Cairo (CNN) — Pro-democracy demonstrators battled Egyptian police for a third straight day Sunday, their anger stoked by images of a military police officer stomping on a woman’s exposed stomach over the weekend. The latest round of street clashes has left at least 10 people dead and 500 wounded since Friday, said Dr. Hisham Sheeha, [...]
Luis Damian came to the U.S. from Cuba nearly a decade ago and has never returned, nor does he frequently send money to his relatives on the island. Still, he can’t understand why Cuban-American politicians from South Florida want to roll back the ability of fellow Cuban-Americans to visit and send money to family there. [...]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is rebranding itself to try to lose the negative “baggage” associated with the larger terror organization’s identity, according to a senior Arab diplomat who says the Yemeni-based group is trying to attract more foreign fighters to its cause. AQAP is increasingly going by the name “Ansar al Sharia,” which [...]
Political Islam is on the march. The West should keep its nerve IS THE Arab spring turning into bleak midwinter? Earlier this year the revolutions sweeping through the region seemed encouragingly modern and secular. Indeed, the young Facebookers and Twitterers braving the bullets in Cairo and Tunis seemed to give the lie to the dictators’ [...]
The Linux community is setting the itinerary for what could become the biggest leap yet toward achieving a fully connected, software-enhanced car. Two significant events are already in motion. One is the creation of the Genivi Alliance. The other event is the first gathering of Linux movers and shakers to rally ideas and products for [...]
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts held a hearing today on bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) mandating the Supreme Court televise its open proceedings. The bill introduced Monday comes as the Supreme Court will hear at least five-and-a-half hours of oral argument next year on the new [...]
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez says his Bolivarian Revolution needs more time to produce its utopian fruits. “We barely have 10 years here,” he told a crowd of supporters in Caracas last week. “We will take it to 10 more and 10 more and 10 more to construct the new social virtues.” In that time, Mr. Chávez [...]
The U.S. Postal Service, having lost 29 percent of its first-class mail volume in the last decade, will slow its delivery service beginning next spring — the first time in 40 years — in an effort to eliminate nearly $3 billion in costs for the cash-strapped agency. “We have to do this in order for [...]
The so called “Science Channel” has become another Reality TV channel and has abandoned the most needed educational science programs. The most revealing indication is easily noticed when visiting the Science Channel lineup: The description of most of these series-type of programs have absolutely nothing to do with Science. Take a look at this [...]
Facebook Inc., preparing for a potential initial public offering, plans to hire thousands of employees in the next year and add an engineering office in New York to lure technical talent. The world’s largest social-networking company, with about 3,000 workers and more than 800 million users, will open the Facebook NYC engineering office in early [...]
CARACAS — Leaders of Latin American and Caribbean nations worked Saturday to finalize an action plan for a new Americas bloc, which excludes the United States and which, according to its organizers, is designed to usher in a new era of Latin American “independence”. Led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the leaders gathered Friday at [...]
A network monitoring application has privacy watchdogs up in arms after a security researcher claimed that the software is capable of recording detailed phone activity and relaying it to carriers without the user even being aware that it’s present on the device. Various carriers and device makers are vehemently denying any involvement with Carrier IQ, [...]
WASHINGTON – The Senate late Thursday blocked rival Democratic and Republican plans for extending the current payroll tax cut, even as all sides on Capitol Hill continue to promise an eventual compromise on a tax holiday before Congress leaves Washington for Christmas. The Democratic bill extending the tax cut for an additional year — to [...]