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Venezuela in rare diplomatic overture to America
CARACAS - Venezuela on Sunday made a rare diplomatic overture to the United States, suggesting it could be time for better ties."We are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Televen television Sunday."The first thing would be to resume diplomatic representation at the highest level," he said.The ...
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Count your blessings a religious America
An unforgettable scene in the kids movie Madagascar 2 has King Julian, "Lord of the Lemurs," reclining with his friends at the luxury end of a rickety old plane watching newsreels of aircraft crashes while the penguins dubiously take the controls.When Melman, the giraffe, walks to the front and pokes his head through the curtain dividing 'cattle class' from the elites, Julian ...
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No Obama wont be impeached Column
boosted the incumbent's popularity while undermining support for Republicans and their leader, Newt Gingrich.A Republican attempt at terminating the Obama presidency would also enable Hillary Clinton to reprise her role as the loyal, long-suffering help-mate working to protect a political partner unjustly persecuted ...
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Deficit dips but still more to do Your Say
The Congressional Budget Office projects a $642 billion deficit for 2013, the smallest since 2008. During his first term, President Obama faced annual deficits of $1trillion or more. Comments from Facebook: This is supposed to be good news? The government continues to spend like drunken sailors and hand us the bill. -- Michael Smalley It's not exactly overspending. The deficits have been ...
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Lower alcohol limit is not cure-all for DUIs tellusatoday
The National Transportation Safety Board is pushing to lower the alcohol limit for drunken driving. We asked our readers on Twitter for their reactions. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:First offense should be punishable by 30 days in jail. Repeat offenders lose license for one year. Zero tolerance.-- @JeffOstachLimit without personal responsibility is meaningless. People who ...
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Why Ted Cruz isnt presidential material Column
And for someone from a border state, he holds many positions outside the Latino mainstream. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has been busy. On May 3, he spoke at ...
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The part of Obamas speech that struck Morehouse students most
Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., president of Morehouse College, and new Morehouse graduate Leland Shelton, share their reactions to President Obama's commencement address there with MSNBC's Craig ...
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Will we reach a tipping point with Syria
Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the upcoming book "The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East," and MSNBC Contributor Rula Jebreal talk with MSNBC's Craig Melvin about the ongoing conflict in Syria and Secretary of State John Kerry's upcoming trip to the Middle East and ...
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Shooting death of gay man rocks New York community
A view of fog over the New York skyline. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) NEW YORK - Greenwich Village, the birthplace of the U.S. gay rights movement, remained in shock on Sunday over the shooting death of a gay man by a gunman who police said uttered anti-gay slurs before targeting the victim. Mark Carson, 32, was shot dead in Greenwich Village around midnight on Friday in what police are calling a ...
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Predictions of an American manufacturing renaissance may be premature
My father designed radio-controlled equipment that was installed in steel mills. An operator could stand on the floor, send signals to an overhead crane from a device on his belt and maneuver ingots weighing several tons. Very modern for its time, the system greatly reduced the risk of injury among workers.My dad was understandably proud of his contribution to the American manufacturing boom of ...
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Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide hurricane struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to ...
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Cespedes Homer Helps A’s Complete Sweep Of Royals
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Yoenis Cespedes hit a leadoff home run in the eighth inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Sunday to complete a three-game ...
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Girl Killed Parents Shot In Gunmen’s Brazen Assault On Sacramento Area Home
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a 10-year-old girl is dead and her parents are hospitalized after gunmen walked up to the front door of a home in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County and started shooting. Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Jason Ramos says the girl and her parents were inside their home on the 6300 block of Channing Drive when at least two gunmen ...
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Officer who mistakenly shot Hofstra student faced harrowing choice expert says
The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...
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Small changes coming for New York Knicks
Photo credit: Don't count on J.R. Smith giving the Knicks a discount. (Getty) While the Knicks' 2012-13 season was easily the team's most successful campaign in more than a decade, the fact remains that it fell well short of a championship or even a conference finals berth against LeBron James and the Miami Heat. Surely, they'll be in the thick of things again next season, ...
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Rogue banks remain too big to fail Our view
It would eliminate the need for more complex regulations. Perhaps the best way to view the world's largest banks is not as companies, but as nations unto themselves.Like rogue states, they profit from their ability to wreak havoc on the world, borrowing for less because lenders know that governments wouldn't dare let them collapse.And like opportunistic governments, they are brilliant ...
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15 capital reserve is excessive Opposing view
Plan would hurt consumers, slow economic growth and diminish America's standing in the global financial system. The financial services industry plays a vital role in fueling businesses to expand and create jobs, helping our economy to grow. At the same time, Americans should know that no institution should be too big to fail and that taxpayers should never again be put at risk in a future ...
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Researchers develop food map to pinpoint how Americans eat
Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food ...
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Commuters warned of traffic mess for up to 1 week
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is warning commuters that a traffic mess awaits them in southwest Connecticut for as long as a week until service is restored to Metro-North following a derailment that injured scores of ...
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Young Americans waste no time qualifying for Indy
One day after getting bumped from the top 24 starting spots for the Indianapolis 500, Josef Newgarden and Graham Rahal posted the two fastest times on the second and final day of qualifying at the historic 2.5-mile ...
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Tornadoes hit Kan. Okla. no injuries reported
A tornado from a large storm system moving cross the south has struck a Georgia town 60 miles north of Atlanta, according to CNN. A least one death has been reported in the state. High winds also are raking Tennessee, where a man died after a tree fell into his home, according to ...
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Splash reports jump in food sales in North America
MANILA, Philippines--Splash Corp., a listed personal care products manufacturer, said buyers in North America snapped up its Barrio Fiesta-branded condiments business although overall food sales still ended with modest gains. In a statement, Splash said first-quarter sales of the Barrio Fiesta condiments brand grew 1 percent to P22.37 million. Overall food sales, which included Moondish Foods ...
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Racism and the American Right
President Thomas Jefferson in a portrait by Rembrandt Peale. Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president. Other factors have come and gone for the Right, but racism has always been there. Though ...
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Officer shot in Marathon showdown wants to work
Police shot a teenager and arrested another suspect while investigating a car theft inside a rental car return area at Jacksonville International Airport in ...
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For Detroit in crisis next six weeks determine bankruptcy fate
A plug is seen coming from the Chevrolet Volt electric car during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan January 13, ...
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