Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
 4.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 79.0 Obama s top foreign aid position is still open
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there s no candidate in sight nine months into his term. The U.S. Agency for International Development is in charg...
4.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 79.0 U.N. chief names Bill Clinton as Haiti envoy
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The United Nations named former President Bill Clinton today as its special envoy to Haiti, with a mission to help the impoverished nation achieve some measure of stability after devastating floods and other crises. It is...
1.1K - May. 19, 2009; scored 1000.0 Committee drops four storm names
MIAMI (AP) - Gustav, Ike, Paloma and Alma are off the World Meteorological Organization's rotating list of storm names. A committee voted to retire them because the storms caused such heavy damage. In the Atlantic, Gustav, Ike and Paloma will be repl...
0.8K - May. 2, 2009; scored 79.0 N.Y. Times wins five Pulitzer prizes, other papers take awards amid downsizing
NEW YORK - The historic collapse of the American newspaper industry was evident at every turn as the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced. One winner was laid off three months ago. Winning newspapers have eliminated home delivery and editions to stay ...
7.7K - Apr. 21, 2009; scored 79.0 Coaches go barefoot for charity
INDIANAPOLIS Last year, IUPUI s Ron Hunter was the only basketball coach to go barefoot on the sideline during an effort to collect shoes for needy children around the world. This year, hundreds of foot soldiers have joined the cause. Samaritan s F...
4.5K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 79.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Australia In Australia, on the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly ...
7.3K - Dec. 19, 2008; scored 79.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Australia In Australia, on the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly ...
7.6K - Dec. 12, 2008; scored 79.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Australia In Australia, on the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly ...
7.8K - Dec. 5, 2008; scored 79.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Australia In Australia, on the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly ...
7.8K - Nov. 26, 2008; scored 79.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Beverly Hills Chihuahua A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive ...
7.8K - Nov. 21, 2008; scored 79.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Appaloosa When two gunmen Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade ranc...
7.6K - Nov. 14, 2008; scored 79.0 Hope fades at fallen Haiti school
PETIONVILLE, Haiti From her front porch, Janita Geneus has a clear view of the collapsed school where her daughter was crushed to death along with at least 93 of her classmates and teachers. But she has not looked at the wreckage once. The mourning...
5.0K - Nov. 11, 2008; scored 882.0 Haitian school collapses, death toll rises to 30
PETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP) A hillside school where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wrec...
2.7K - Nov. 8, 2008; scored 183.0 | 
