The Senate Judiciary Committee gave a sweeping immigration bill the stamp of approval Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate before the full Senate next month.... Read more»
Drama promised in semifinals between Germany and Spain, Netherlands and Uruguay... Read more»
After battling through health care and finance reform, President Obama waded into one of the most contentious issues of all – immigration – advocating a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal migrants.... Read more»1
“Europe fell in love with jazz after World War II, when American jazz musicians suffering from segregation at home, escaped here and found a welcome. For us, jazz music came to symbolize freedom.”... Read more»
McChrystal aside, the critical battle for Afghanistan is playing out right now — and we’re not winning.... Read more»1
While Lance Armstrong might well top a list of the most admired American athletes of the past decade, he probably wouldn’t fare quite as well on a list of the most liked.... Read more»3
Preparations are under way for a historic state visit to the Republic of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth ll next year. The 84-year-old head of the House of Windsor will be the first British monarch to grace the neighboring island nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1921.... Read more»
From afar, it looks like the spy scandal of the decade — 11 alleged Russian agents busted by the FBI on suspicion of infiltrating American society to feed policy secrets back to their spymasters in Moscow. Yet a closer look at the FBI’s investigation shows a sloppy operation that appears to have gathered little solid information.... Read more»
The music the 68-year-old “father of Ethio-jazz” writes sounds like nothing else. His distinctive blending of musical styles seizes Western jazz and thrusts it deep into the soil of Ethiopia creating a groovy music that is by turns ethereal and hip-swinging but always enigmatic.... Read more»
North Korea’s World Cup team, doomed from the start, attracted fans for all sorts of reasons. If the Cup is Christmas to soccer fans, then North Korea was the misshapen present, handed with a wink, that made no noise when shaken; sure to be interesting, no matter what it turned out to be.... Read more»
Palestinian and international activists in the West Bank regularly dodge tear gas, skunk cannons and rubber bullets as they challenge territory that Israel controls, it says, for security reasons. In Gaza, however, protesters are immediately met with live gunfire.... Read more»
Fifty years after the pill heralded women’s sexual emancipation in the West, emergency contraceptive is becoming a new phenomenon in India. Despite fierce opposition from conservative quarters, morning-after pills are available without a prescription and presage a different kind of sexual empowerment in this fast-changing country.... Read more»
Recent converts to both the U.S. soccer team and the World Cup may not yet have fully grasped some of the implications of the American defeat. After all, we are a “wait till next year” nation. But what makes the World Cup so compelling is that it requires you to wait an eternity — four more years — for your next fix.... Read more»
The U.S. was again part of a thriller match in its second-round clash with Ghana but this time Team U.S.A. failed to secure a happy ending. The Black Stars defeated the Americans 2-1 on an overtime goal and continue their unlikely run as last remaining hope for Africa in this first World Cup on African soil.... Read more»
Soldiers knew more than anyone else what damage had been done when news broke that their commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the U.S.-led international force’s 140,000 troops in Afghanistan, had criticized his commander in chief in an inflammatory Rolling Stone article.... Read more»
Royal Bafokeng Stadium is the only community-owned stadium of the 10 venues at the World Cup. It has already hosted the attention-grabbing England-United States clash and will host a total of six matches, including the second-round match between the U.S.. and Ghana on Saturday.... Read more»
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