Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will give the GOP response to President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress. The following is a transcript of the speech as delivered on Tuesday night
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Obama speech to Congress focuses on economy
President Obama spoke to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Here is a transcript of the speech, as prepared for delivery: President Obama: Madame Speaker, Mr
Pakistan sees ‘hope’ in Obama approach
Pakistan is optimistic about the Obama administration’s commitment to its region and will work with the United States on trying to root out extremism within its borders, Pakistan’s foreign minister said. Following a meeting with U.S.
Women’s cancer risk may increase with just a few drinks
Attention, libation lovers: Middle-aged women who indulge in just a few alcohol-containing drinks each day may have a higher risk of cancer than those who drink less often, according to a report released Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Although moderate drinking — considered one drink a day for women, two drinks a day for men — is thought to lower the risk of heart attack and stroke versus both teetotaling and heavy drinking, the study highlights that alcohol has risks as well, and those risks increase in tandem with intake
Borger: Q&A session showed Obama engaging opponents
Sure, it was a tad hokey and staged. After members of Congress and assorted good government-types participated in the "fiscal responsibility" summit at the White House, President Obama took their questions. Calling first on Sen.
Duke Ellington becomes first African-American on U.S. coin
Jazz legend Duke Ellington is the first African-American to appear on an American coin, the U.S. Mint says in introducing the latest in its line of state-themed quarters. The District of Columbia commemorative quarter showing Ellington playing the piano will be introduced by U.S.
Official: Ministry infiltrators killed Iraqi VP’s sister in ’06
The Iraqi Interior Ministry on Monday blamed ministry infiltrators for the 2006 killing of the sister of the Sunni vice president.
U.S. to pay ‘forgotten’ Filipino World War II veterans
More than 60 years after reneging on a promise to the hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who fought for the United States during World War II, the U.S.
GOP rising star Jindal’s speech a ‘coming-out party’
Thrust into the spotlight as a Republican rising star, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been depicted as an up-and-comer capable of helping reshape the party and jockeying for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. And now, Jindal’s party is putting him on a national platform, awarding the once little-known congressman the political plum of delivering the Republican’s televised response to President Barack Obama’s address to Congress on February 24.
Is Bollywood coming to Hollywood?
"Slumdog Millionaire" took home eight Oscars on Sunday night, a surprising achievement for a film once thought to be straight-to-DVD fodder. The colorful story, which mixes the gritty life of Mumbai’s poor with the shiny aspirations of the new India, features no stars recognizable to Western audiences, but it may have made one of its native country. So, is it time for Bollywood — as India’s huge Mumbai-based film industry is called — to come to America “International cinema comes in cycles in the United States,” said Frank Lovece, a film critic with Film Journal International.