High-tech border fence is slow going
The radar, cameras and satellite signals, originally expected to be completed by 2011, will probably not be ready for at least seven years. ‘It was a great idea, but it didn’t work,’ an official says.
An ambitious, multibillion-dollar project to hot-wire the new Southwest border fence with high-tech radar, cameras and satellite signals has been plagued with serious system failures and repeated delays and will probably not be completed for another seven years — if it is finished at all.
Arnold Schwarzenegger criticizes fellow Republicans
The California governor says members of his party are hypocrites for opposing President Obama’s economic stimulus efforts.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized fellow Republicans on Sunday as being hypocritical when they trash the federal stimulus program, and he dismissed the “tea party” movement as “just an expression of anger and dissatisfaction.”
New chief of product safety jumps into action (The Tennessean)
WASHINGTON – The new head of consumer product safety in the United States has quickly put American and foreign toymakers, crib manufacturers and producers of other goods on notice that there’s a new sheriff in town.
US hopes to ride out rough patch with China (Malaysian Mirror)
WASHINGTON -In the span of a few weeks, China has angrily denounced the United States twice after President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama and approved an arms package to Taiwan.
Obama helped bring on the healthcare backlash
By leaving the overhaul in the hands of Congress, he has given the public a full view of how lawmakers do business. The result is an anti-Washington mood that Republicans have tapped into.
As President Obama seeks to revive his moribund healthcare initiative — and arrest the precipitous drop in his political fortunes — he is struggling with the consequences of one of his most important early decisions: letting Congress take the lead in designing his signature policy proposal.
Figure skating: Devastating blow for top Canadian skater – AFP News : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics)
Vancouver (AFP) – Six-time Canadian figure skating champion Joannie Rochette was dealt a devastating blow on Sunday with the death of her mother just two days before she is just due to compete at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Therese Rochette, 55, died overnight, reportedly from a heart attack at Vancouver General Hospital. Rochette, the reigning world silver medallist, is Canada’s best …
Obama plan would curb health insurers on rate hikes
The proposal would give the Health and Human Services secretary power to block premium increases deemed excessive.
President Obama’s new healthcare overhaul plan would give the federal government greater authority to stop rate increases imposed by health insurers, an administration official said late Sunday.
Bush, Blair attend Nigeria ceremony (AP via Yahoo! News)
Former world leaders George W. Bush and Tony Blair joined Nigeria’s elite at a ceremony honoring the political and business establishment Sunday, but one honoree’s absence highlighted the endemic corruption and other problems plaguing the oil-rich nation.
Supreme Court to consider another case on racial bias in hiring
Chicago firefighters say they were illegally discriminated against through test scores. A lawyer calls it the flip side to last year’s case involving white firefighters in New Haven, Conn.
The controversy over racial bias, testing and firefighters that blew up at both the Supreme Court and the Senate last year returns Monday, this time as the justices decide whether blacks who were not hired in Chicago because of their test scores are due damages for years of lost wages.
