Hispanic advocates often tell the story of a Census Bureau worker who visits a Puerto Rican household in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood.
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War on Korean Peninsula: High Tension Prompts Scenarios
“A symphony of death.” That’s the chilling phrase that Kurt Campbell, who is now Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Obama Administration, once used to describe the likely outcome of any military encounter on the Korean peninsula between the U.S., its ally South Korea and their mutual enemy across the 38th parallel in the North.
Why Iran is Nervous About Iraq’s Oil Production
Iran may have had a political boost from the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Middle East — with some new regimes apparently more sympathetic toward Tehran while others brace themselves against the Iranian regime’s influence among opposition movements in the region. But there is no attendant economic windfall to all the change
Kenyan aristocrat freed from prison
One of Kenya’s most famous white aristocrats was released from prison Friday, a federal official said, after serving time in a killing that sparked racial tensions in the east African nation.
Analysis: Did Obama win Nobel for not being Bush?
Did President Obama land a Nobel peace prize at such an early stage of his presidency simply because he’s not George W.
Police search for woman bank robber who claims to have bomb
Investigators in New England are looking for a woman who they say has robbed at least six banks — often while claiming to have a bomb.
Israel may build more settlements before weighing housing freeze
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to approve building hundreds of new settlements in the West Bank before considering a freeze on construction in the area, a senior Israeli government official said Friday. The move comes as Israel and the United States have been increasingly at odds over President Obama’s insistence that Israel’s government freeze all settlement activity as a necessary step toward advancing negotiations with Palestinians.
Somali radio journalist shot dead
The director of a Somali radio station was shot dead and a colleague seriously injured in the capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday, according to a local journalist and a Somali journalists’ organization. The assassination of Mukhtar Mohammad Hirabe of Shabelle Media follows last week’s abduction of a station director for TV Universal. Hirabe was shot in the head, the journalist said
The Meaning of Michelle Obama
It was just two days after the Inauguration when an e-mail went around to Michelle Obama’s staff, instructing everyone to be in the East Room of the White House at 3 that afternoon.