Day: February 10, 2005

The Pentagon has looked at the foreseeable future of war and it is Fallujah.

North Korea declared on Thursday for the first time it possessed nuclear weapons and pulled out indefinitely from six-party talks on its atomic ambitions, saying it needed a defense against a hostile United States.

First-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton of Minnesota, who polls indicate is vulnerable to defeat, announced on Wednesday he would not seek reelection next year.

Legislation to raise fines on television and radio broadcasters and individuals for violating decency limits to as much as $500,000 per incident won approval on Wednesday by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Starting on a sour note, lawmakers holding the first congressional review of the 2004 vote were upset by the absence of top election officials from Ohio and Florida, states with many balloting complaints.

Election officials Wednesday proposed overhauling the way tax dollars can be used to cover the cost of running for president, including an increase in the amount that can be spent by primary candidates who take public money.

Spending restraints in President Bush’s budget proposal would mean deep cuts to environmental protection, community development, veterans benefits and other programs through the end of the decade, a liberal think tank said Wednesday.

A Senate Democrat blasted the Bush administration Wednesday over plans to raise ticket fees for airline passengers – a budget proposal that would pay for a host of homeland security programs.

President Bush is asking Congress to set up a $400 million fund to reward nations that have taken political and economic risks to join U.S.-led coalitions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Born into slavery, Henry Vinton Plummer served honorably in the Union Navy during the Civil War, went on to attend seminary, then became the Army’s first black chaplain.