"Boston Globe" Reader |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:10 PM PST |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 05:22 PM PST President Barack Obama is urging Iraqi leaders involved in a fragile power-sharing deal to aim for an "inclusive government" for the country.     |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:41 PM PST Airport officials say three people are dead and another seriously injured in a small plane crash in Florida.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:41 PM PST President Barack Obama's support for India's bid for permanent membership on the U.N. Security Council put the spotlight on the failure of the United Nations to reform its most powerful body.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:20 PM PST An illegal immigrant college student whose arrest for a minor traffic violation touched off a wider immigration debate was found guilty Thursday in a suburban Atlanta court of driving without a license. But jurors acquitted the 22-year-old woman of a second charge arising from a campus traffic stop last March.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 05:54 PM PST Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday announced a special session of the Legislature to address a $6 billion deficit that emerged just weeks after he signed the state budget.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:31 PM PST A United Nations refugee official says no single country wants to take all the Iraqi Mandaean (man-DAY'-an) refugees who seek to resettle, and acknowledges that's putting the tiny religious group at risk.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:11 PM PST Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a potential GOP presidential candidate, stepped up his attack Thursday on President Barack Obama's federal health care law with a court filing challenging its cost to states.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:01 PM PST Whoa! There will be no more horsing around for a suburban Philadelphia teen who's been commuting to school on his trusty steed. Roby Burch had been riding his horse Jet about four miles each way to the private Haverford School. He was keeping the horse in a corral on school grounds.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:51 PM PST Gay rights advocates said Thursday they hoped Congress will be moved to repeal the law known as "don't ask, don't tell" after a Pentagon study found it could be done with little harm to the military.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:51 PM PST A Northern California land preservation group has purchased a 272-acre ranch thought to be the first North American site settled by Japanese colonists. |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:41 PM PST In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:41 PM PST A DNA test on a strand of hair has cast doubt on the guilt of a Texas man who was executed 10 years ago during George W. Bush's final months as governor for a liquor-store robbery and murder.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:31 PM PST Luis Guerra swore he had nothing to do with any murder, that whoever picked him out of a lineup was wrong. Still, he was held at the Rikers Island jail for more than a year before the charges were dropped. |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:24 PM PST Police said it didn't take them long to locate an Idaho man suspected in the robbery of a Cedars Inn -- he was next door at The Alibi bar. Lewiston police said 40-year-old Donald Mosley Jr. was arrested less than 15 minutes after he walked into the hotel and demanded cash from the desk clerk late Wednesday.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:23 PM PST A construction worker is in critical condition after a natural gas line exploded along Florida's Gulf coast.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:41 PM PST The ACLU is suing the government on behalf of a gay former Air Force sergeant who says he did not get full separation pay after he was forced out under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.   |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:41 PM PST Websites where consumers will be able to shop for health insurance are a linchpin of the nation's new health care law and have a history of conservative support, a top federal official said Wednesday.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:31 PM PST A Duluth woman whose wrought-iron fence was taken by a neighbor a few blocks away is expected to get a replacement. According to court records, 53-year-old Randy King admitted taking the antique fence in September 2009 and installing it in his yard.   |
