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 | Politics |  Obama Breaking Vows on Secrecy
Despite Barack Obama’s formation of a new task force to review government secrecy, and an ongoing investigation into use of the so-called state-secrets doctrine, lawyers for the new administration refused last week to disclose information on the government’s use of warrantless wiretaps and backed legislation to block the release of photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| | | | Economics |  | US Sells Bunker Busters to SKorea
The United States has agreed to equip South Korea with 'bunker buster' bombs capable of destroying underground facilities of North Korea. |
|  | Still No Signals of Recession’s End
The U.S. economy isn’t convincingly pulling out of recession, according to the Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator, which was published Monday. |
|  | GM Bankruptcy Marathon Finally Begins
A GM affiliate in New York has submitted its bankruptcy request as the giant US automakers gears up to use the process to secure its reorganization. |
| | Society |  | Another Abortion Doc Fears He's Next
One of the few remaining late-term abortion providers in the country has told that he fears he could be "next" following this weekend's murder of controversial abortion doctor George Tiller. |
|  | US Swine Flu Cases Hit all 50 States
Cases of the new H1N1 flu virus have now been found in all 50 U.S. states and tests have confirmed the virus in more than 10,000 people across the nation, U.S. officials said on Monday. |
|  | Death in Suburbs Shows Heroin’s Spread
For five hours, Dana Smith huddled stunned and bewildered in her suburban living room while the body of her son Arthur Eisel IV, 31, lay slumped in an upstairs bathroom, next to a hypodermic needle. |
| | Military |  | US 'must Reduce Afghan Deaths'
The US president's nominee to take over command of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan has pledged to reduce Afghan casualties as the US steps up its war against Taliban fighters in the country. |
| |  | Cash Missing after US Navy Rescue from Pirates
The U.S. Navy is investigating the disappearance of $30,000 in cash during the hijacking of the U.S.-flagged ship Maersk Alabama off the coast of Somalia and the Navy SEALs' rescue of its captain, Richard Phillips, in April. |
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| Articles |  |  US to Counter Growing Taliban Violence
In a surprise shake-up last month, Robert Gates, the US defense secretary, dismissed Army General David McKiernan as the most senior US and Nato commander in Afghanistan and selected McChrystal as his replacement, saying it was time for "fresh thinking". |
|  | US State Attorneys General Defending Israeli War Crimes
In response to a series of reports by human rights organizations and international legal scholars documenting serious large-scale violations of international humanitarian law by Israeli armed forces in its recent war on the Gaza Strip, 10 U.S. state attorneys general sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defending the Israeli action. |
|  | Health Care Activists Lament Single-Payer Snub
Frustrated by the exclusion of government-financed medical care from the debate to revamp the nation's troubled health system, advocates of a "single-payer" plan are increasingly turning to demonstrations and civil disobedience as a way to get their message across. |
| Why US Still in Iraq?
However one frames the debate, it is apparent to any fair minded and rational person that the invasion of Iraq, based as it was on misinformation at best, lies and deceptions at worst, was a mistake and should never have occurred. |
|  | Hold Torturers Accountable
While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is something that is now going to be considered justifiable and reasonable under certain circumstances, or is America better than that? |
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