Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama began a two-day Virginia campaign swing Tuesday in a community with the state’s highest unemployment rate, telling a Martinsville audience that he will take aggressive steps to improve the plight of economically-distressed communities that are reeling from plant closings and layoffs.
“I’m not saying that every job is going to come [...]
National conventions are often used to cast a spotlight on a party’s up-and-comers, and even off-hour slots are fought over.
But noticeable by his absence from the Democratic podium next week in Denver will be Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, who is not expected to be among the featured speakers.
Franken, a comedian known nationally for [...]
Toward the end of his interview on CBS’s “Face The Nation” on Sunday, Barack Obama was asked by correspondent Lara Logan how much his foreign trip is aimed at allaying doubts about his readiness “to lead a country at war as commander in chief from day one.”
The candidate quickly brushed aside the question. The foreign [...]
The topics included coal’s availability, its cost-effectiveness as an energy source and the viability of a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions.
Accompanied by his wife, Cindy, the candidate watched a PowerPoint presentation detailing the country’s coal reserves, which types of coal are cleanest, and comparisons to other fuel types, and other countries.
McCain asked questions about [...]
The U.N.’s most powerful body spent nine days visiting African hotspots trying to push solutions to the continent’s worst conflicts and get a taste of the hardships faced by millions of civilians caught in fighting.
For the U.N. Security Council diplomats who traveled from Kenya to Djibouti, where peace talks on Somalia were taking place, and [...]
James Fanshawe’s Sir Gerry will tackle the minimum trip for the first time in the Prix du Gros-Chene at Chantilly on Sunday after a late setback ruled him out of last week’s Temple Stakes.
The colt will be ridden by Kerrin McEvoy for the first time.
“But James is very pleased with my horse at the moment [...]
As she packs up her rental car this morning for a coast-to-coast quest for the definition of happiness, Nicole Prowell is a little worried about how strangers might define her.
The 26-year-old Prowell, who just earned her master’s degree in documentary video from Emerson College, is producing “Happy Hunting,” a film about her fascination with the [...]
Police divers yesterday recovered the body of one of two young canoeists presumed drowned after their boat capsized on the weekend in a Richmond Hill lake.
Since Sunday morning, a marine unit has scoured the cold, murky waters of Lake Wilcox, near Bayview Avenue and North Lake Road, for 19-year-old Alon Kulik and 21-year-old Daniel Montazernezam.
Police [...]
Lesley Becker, a graphic designer for the Globe, was accustomed to the peaceful roads of the Midwest. Though she came to Boston years ago, she never could comprehend such local quirks as the “Boston Left” or who has the right of way at intersections. If only someone would educate readers about how they were supposed [...]
The annual trip for West Bloomfield High physics students was cut short Wednesday when the student complained of sickness and was taken to a medical facility at the park in Sandusky, Ohio, said Joey Spano of the West Bloomfield School District.
The boy then admitted to having eaten a pot brownie.
Cedar Park officials contacted a school [...]
