Washington – An influential panel is calling for an 80 percent reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons and an elimination of all nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. In a report for the advocacy group Global Zero, retired Gen. James Cartwright and others argue that the U.S. needs no more than 900 total nuclear weapons for its [...]
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Check out CNN affiliate WREG-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, for information on the shootings. (CNN) — Someone who may be posing as a police officer is pulling cars over on Mississippi highways and then shooting drivers dead, authorities said. After two such shootings this month, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public’s help [...]
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.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px} .cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0} .captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1} .cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:outline:medium none} .cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px} ]]> French President Francois Hollande pays his respects after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Tuesday, May 15. A special police unit sniper stands guard on a [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama taunts David Beckham over his underwear
Inside the East Room, President Obama sent a flurry of jokes the midfielder’s way. After calling the Galaxy, who won the MLS Cup last November, “the Miami Heat of soccer” and acknowledging Irishman Robbie Keane, Obama turned his attention toward Beckham, 37. “We also have a young up-and-comer on the team, a guy named David [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama walks fine line in bashing Romney, courting Wall Street
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON | Tue May 15, 2012 7:11pm EDT WASHINGTON May 15 (Reuters) – For President Barack Obama’s re-election team, it’s sort of like threading a needle. While trying to define Republican Mitt Romney as an insensitive job-killer during his time as a private equity executive, the Obama campaign also is raising money [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Groundbreaking $100M study aims to stop Alzheimer’s before it starts
(CBS News) Alzheimer’s disease cannot be cured but it can be prevented. The government announced Tuesday a $100 million study to test an Alzheimer’s prevention drug in just one family. It’s potentially a breakthrough because it’s hard to test Alzheimer’s prevention. Scientists can never know which healthy people will develop the disease, but now they’ve [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Eisenhower Memorial Plans Redone After Family Outcry
Architect Frank Gehry has proposed changes to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, following strong criticism from surviving family members and questions from top GOP House lawmakers. The family had initially complained that the design focused too strongly on the late president’s humble Kansas roots, as opposed to his accomplishments as a president and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Chinese Activist ‘Cannot Be Silenced’
The Chinese dissident whose activism against his country’s practice of forced abortion and sterilization made him a wanted man declared Tuesday by telephone before a Capitol Hill hearing that he “cannot be silent” in the face of “evils” against women and children. Chen Guangcheng also described the persecution his family has suffered, and the diplomatic crisis [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mom kills her 4 children, self at Florida home
Check out CNN affiliate WKMG-TV in Orlando for updates on the fatal shootings. (CNN) — A Florida mother shot her four children early Tuesday morning before turning the gun on herself at her home in Port St. John, police said. A neighbor heard shots at 4:50 a.m. and then responded to a knock at the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Murdoch insider charged in phone hacking probe
London (CNN) — British prosecutors said Tuesday they would charge Rebekah Brooks with trying to obstruct a police investigation into phone hacking at newspapers owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Brooks, a former editor of the News of the World, is accused of plotting to remove boxes of documents from News International offices and hide [...]
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