Tag: Celeste Headlee
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's rape charges and the future of the IMF
New York Police boarded a plane and arrested IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual assault charges. The future direction of the IMF is in question....
Israel, Palestine, Syria and violent protests over Naqba
In protests commemorating Israel's creation, what Palestinians call the "Naqba" or the "catastrophe," thousands of Arabs marched on Israel's borders. Dozens were killed....
FEMA: Give us our aid money back
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may have overpaid $22 million in aid to Americans. Now it's asking for the money back....
Homeless population spikes after Alabama tornadoes
The tornadoes that ripped through the South, especially through Alabama, have created a spike in homeless people, as tornado victims search for housing....
Times Square Celebration: Osama Bin Laden Dead
A celebration broke out in Times Square, New York City, when news broke that Osama Bin Laden had been killed....
"The Loving Story" that decriminalized interracial marriage
A new documentary tells the story of the couple whose 1967 US Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, overturned anti-miscegenation laws. ...
Jobs for college grads: Getting better
The job market for new college graduates is better this year than it was in a few years past, but unemployment remains high....
Mississippi River flood dilemma: destroy farms to save cities?
Officials along the Mississippi Delta are considering whether to open the floodgates, allowing water to flood farmland, to save cities from a Katrina-like disaster....
Raj Rajaratnam, of Galleon Capital, guilty of insider trading
The federal government used tactics usually reserved for organized crime to catch Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund billionaire of Galleon Capital, in an insider-trading scheme....
