Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through
Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial
cuts in President Barack Obama's health care law.
The American Civil War, also known as ‘The War Between the States’, was
bloody and raged from 1861 to 1865. It was when 11 Southern slave states
declared their secession from the United States and formed the
Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy").
The doctor charged in the death of Michael Jackson tried to change his
story about his actions involving the pop star, telling his own experts
in the upcoming trial a different story than he told police, prosecutors
said Monday.
A Southern California GOP official who sent out an e-mail picturing
President Barack Obama's face on the body of a baby chimpanzee issued an
apology late Monday after a weekend of criticism that ended with a
strongly worded public rebuke from the local Republican Party chairman,
who also called for an ethics investigation into the incident.
President Barack Obama has marshaled the likes of former California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the mayors of New York and San Antonio and
Philadelphia's police commissioner in an attempt to show wide and varied
support for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
As cannons thudded around Charleston Harbor this week in commemoration
of the start of the war that extinguished slavery, the audiences for the
150th-anniversary events were nearly all-white. Even black scholars
lecturing about black Union troops and the roots of slavery gazed out
mostly on white faces.
Several ramshackle houses featured on advertisements for the HBO series
"Treme" were demolished Thursday, despite efforts by preservationists
and show producers who wanted the row homes renovated.
