(Reuters) – Countries would consider on Saturday small, incremental progress in a draft paper on cutting carbon emissions and preparing for a warmer world, at a climate conference in Durban. That may be the only outcome of the U.N.-backed conference which over-ran on Saturday, as separately negotiators struggled on bigger commitments to agree in future [...]
President Barack Obama has broken with liberal activists on recent issues such as air pollution and contraception, and that’s alienated those supporters as he’s moved more to the political center. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
OSLO (Reuters) – One of the three women sharing the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday lambasted the international community for not backing revolution in her native Yemen and said Arab despots who turn against their own people should not receive immunity. Accepting the 2011 award, Yemeni activist Tawakul Karman called on the western world to [...]
DURBAN (Reuters) – Ministers fought to save U.N. climate talks from collapse on Saturday, searching to narrow differences between rich and poor nations over how quickly to fight global warming. Ministerial negotiations in the South African port city of Durban were put off until Saturday afternoon but with many delegates due to head home there [...]
The loss to Iran of the CIA’s surveillance drone bristling with advanced spy technology is more than a propaganda coup and intelligence windfall for the Tehran government. The plane’s capture has peeled back another layer of secrecy from expanding U.S. operations against Iran’s nuclear and military programs. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
From late-night comedy shows to one-on-one cable news interviews, free media exposure has been unusually influential this election season in defining the Republican presidential candidates and setting the dynamics of the primary race, especially for lower-tier hopefuls lacking cash for TV ads. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Newt Gingrich is facing his first debate as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Standing next to him will be Mitt Romney, whose campaign has launched an all-out offensive against Gingrich’s record and leadership style. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
DES MOINES, IOWA– Ron Paul’s presidential campaign released a comparatively edgy new ad Monday that will air on local and cable networks across Iowa and New Hampshire. The spot touts Paul’s call to cut a trillion dollars from federal budget in his first year in office. Played over a rock track, a man’s voice in the [...]
On issues from air pollution to contraception, President Barack Obama has broken sharply with liberal activists and come down on the side of business interests and social conservatives as he moves more to the political middle for his re-election campaign. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News
The road to health care reform—what the Republican presidential candidates routinely call “Obamacare,” and likely the central issue of the fall 2012 campaign—began in Iowa. In May 2007, Barack Obama was a United States senator and Democratic presidential candidate who was losing to Hillary Clinton by double digits in national polls, when he unveiled the [...]
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