Mitt Romney says the risk of conflict in the Middle East has grown under President Barack Obama’s leadership. The Republican presidential contender is calling for a “change of course” in the region. (Oct. 8)
A judge says cheerleaders can continue to use run-through banners emblazoned with Bible verses at a Texas high school’s football games for at least two more weeks. (Oct. 8)
Meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites are all different stages of the same thing: pieces of rock and metal that hurtle around our solar system. Though they have long threatened life on Earth, they might have carried life here in the first place.
An historic letter penned by Albert Einstein is now up for auction. The “god Letter” Is Einstein’s views on religion as told in an exchange with author Eric. B. Gutkind. (Oct. 8)
Mitt Romney, the US Republican presidential nominee, has pledged to pursue a more assertive policy towards the Middle East if elected, in an attempt to draw a sharp distinction with how President Barack Obama has handled Libya, Iran, Syria and the Palestinian-Israeli dispute.
Romney, speaking at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington on Monday, made a case that his policy views reflect what advisers called the mainstream “peace through strength” doctrine they said had been pursued by prior presidents from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama has failed to confront global challenges and exercise American leadership, thereby weakening the United States and emboldening its enemies. As VOA’s Michael Bowman reports, the White House has dismissed Mr. Romney’s foreign policy address as empty “chest-pounding rhetoric.”
Employees of one of the most influential American newspapers walked out to protest the management’s policy on contract negotiations. Union members of the New York Times have been working without a contract for the last 18 months which resulted in their mobilizing to the latest stalemate in negotiations.
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