March 4 - Several key nations on the U.N. Security Council are hesitant to approve a sanctions resolution for Iran because it could sever important diplomatic and military ties between Middle Eastern countries.
Feb. 16 - The Pakistani military captured Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior member of the Taliban's governing Quetta Council. Barader, a major player in the Afghan Taliban, is second-in-command to Osama bin Laden.
Feb. 18 - Software engineer Joseph Stack crashed his single-engine plane into an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office building, killing one person and setting off a fire that prompted the evacuation of over 200 employees.
Feb. 2 - Al Qaeda, in cooperation with its affiliates, intends to coordinate a large-scale terrorist attack on the U.S. within the next six months.
Feb. 1 - The Obama administration asked Congress to increase education spending by about 7.5 percent for fiscal year 2011 for the restructuring of a test score-based rating system established under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Jan. 21 - In a decision that overturned decades of campaign finance law, the Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot ban corporations from financially supporting a candidate in elections.
Jan. 19 - Awe-inspiring stories of survival have surfaced following the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti Jan. 12. On Jan. 18, an eight-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl were pulled from the debris of a two-story building in Port-au-Prince.
Jan. 12 - A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti last Tuesday, killing an estimated 50,000 people and trapping thousands under the wreckage.
Jan. 4 - The Obama administration recently implemented increased security checks for airport passengers arriving from 14 foreign nations. The Transportation Security Administration and State Department agreed to narrow the list of countries due to a lack of comprehensive scanning technology.
Dec. 16 – Police in Northern Virginia arrested 38 people suspected of dealing heroin and prescription drugs to high school students and young adults in Prince William and Fairfax Counties. The police sting was launched in response to the recent overdose deaths of Matthew Mittong and Mindy Weakly in Prince William County.
Dec. 30 - British computer consultant Peter Moore was released after a two-year imprisonment in Baghdad. Moore, who had been abducted in May 2007, is believed to be the one remaining survivor of the five men who were captured in a raid outside of Iraq's Finance Ministry.
Nov. 30 - President Obama has announced that the U.S. will deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan in the upcoming months, bringing the total number of American forces in the country to 100,000.
Dec. 7 - United Nations (UN) officials are holding a two-week conference on climate control in Copenhagen, Denmark to address global warming and environmental sustainability.
Nov. 19 - In a Nov. 18 Senate hearing, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. defended his Nov. 13 decision to transfer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators, alleged masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, to a civilian court in the Southern District of New York for criminal trials.
Nov. 16 - Tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in Moscow's Butyrskaya Prison after a one-year incarceration for his discovery of police participation in a $230 million burglary of government funds.
June 4 - After the mysterious June 1 crash of Air France Flight 447 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Brazilian navy planes from the U.S., France and Brazil have launched a search for remaining debris, which may lead to an explanation for the accident.
May 25 - Due to rainy weather in Florida, the space shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California instead of its primary landing site at Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Fla. Atlantis was launched May 11 to repair and replace instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope and is scheduled for another flight in November.
May 20 – Four men were arrested Wednesday after allegedly planting explosives outside two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York. U.S. Magistrate Lisa Smith ruled Thursday that suspects James Cromitie, David Williams and Onta Williams be held in jail without bail until a court hearing scheduled for June 5.
April 29 - Senator Arlen Specter (R - Pa.) switched political parties after concluding that his reelection chances as a member of the GOP were slim. This switch could give the Democrats a 60th vote in the Senate, making Obama's administrative agendas potentially filibuster-proof.
May 4 - Iraqi government officials refused to extend the June 30 withdrawal date outlined in a mutual security agreement for U.S. troops in urban areas.
April 23 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that the world economy will recover from the recession in 2010 after continued shrinking in 2009. Originally, the IMF had predicted that the world economy will grow in 2010 by almost 3.3 percent but it has since downgraded that prediction to 1.3 percent. Although the Chinese and Indian economies are predicted to grow 6.5 percent and 4.5 percent respectively, the economies of Western Europe and North America are expected to contract 3.8 percent to offset the gains in Asia. The report also predicts that unemployment levels will rise around the world before receding in 2010.
Vienna, Va. April 22 - Freddie Mac Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) David Kellermann was found dead in an apparent suicide by hanging, according to sources close to the investigation. Kellermann has worked at Freddie Mac for the past 16 years and was made acting CFO in September after the government seized control of Freddie Mac in the midst of the economic crisis. Kellermann's actions at work had been under strict government regulation since he took the position.
United States The Obama Administration has agreed to join regular talks with Iran and other nations about Iran's nuclear program. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech that he would welcome new talks given that they shifted in an "honest" direction. This approach to foreign policy has differed from the approach taken by the Bush administration, which refused to meet with Ahmadinejad.
Detroit, Mich. March 29 - General Motors (GM) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Richard Wagoner resigned under pressure from the Obama Administration. After panning GM for failing to turn itself around earlier this month, the administration asked Wagoner to step aside during a meeting on March 29. Former GM President and Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson will take over as Chairman and CEO of the struggling automaker. The administration has given GM 60 days to create a plan to prove that the business can be revived. If GM fails to come up with a viable plan, the government will stop giving federal money and allow the company to file for bankruptcy.
March 17 - Former left-wing president Mohammed Khatami dropped out of the Iranian presidential race and endorsed fellow reformist candidate and former prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi in an attempt to unite the left-wing faction in Iran. Khatami served as president of Iran from 1997-2005 before transferring power to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a staunch conservative. Ahmadinejad is widely regarded as the front-runner in the election, backed with support from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The election will be held on June 12, 2009.
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