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’No one said Copenhagen was going to be easy. After all, at its heart, the climate summit is about persuading nearly 200 nations to use drastically less of the fossil fuels that power the global economy.’ The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States gave hope that a legally binding climate agreement in Copenhagen would be produced. [...]

In a landmark move to make the internet a more safe and pleasant experience for the users, the U.S Congress is in the process of drafting a resolution that, would make it compulsory for the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to remove or block fraudulent websites, that tend to make money via scams and other unethical means. In a similar situation, the [...]

A Pentagon report reveals that one out of every seven prisoners that got detained at the US prisons in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba went back to terrorist activity after being transferred abroad. There had already been 534 former Gitmo detainees that were transferred elsewhere. 74 ex-detainees are said to have re-engaged in terrorism. 29 of these have been [...]

For starters, Bush insisted that torture was legal. He bought into the official legal reviews on it, hook, line, and sinker. If his administration’s legal counsels said that no international or domestic law can bind him to legal culpability in times of war, then the advice must have been sound. Everybody dealing with the top terror-suspect Abu Zubaydah [...]

The Obama administration is finalizing the creation within the Pentagon of a new unit called Cyber Command, dedicated to ensuring the security of computer networks of the United States military that have been, of late, threatened by the intrusion of hackers linked especially to countries such as China and Russia. Most likely to be at the helm of the [...]

Amidst the current situation where Republicans are reluctant to reduce emissions by approximately 15 percent in 2020, Al Gore urges the U.S. Congress to approve the climate change law that aims to mandate the 15 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020. The proposed legislation will also stipulate the creation of a market for carbon credits much [...]

The term preexisting condition has always had a negative connotation because it prevents an ordinary citizen from availing timely and appropriate health insurance coverage or making him or her pay a hefty cost when coverage is acquired. Each insurance company can have its own arbitrary list of pre-existing conditions that can be excluded from the insurance [...]

Republicans blame the government of President Barack Obama for not having done enough to ensure that AIG executives did not get their hands on the fat bonuses after receiving public bail-out money. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has fallen under heavy criticism for not having averted the release of bonuses to AIG executives. Construed as taken [...]

Regarding the look of things to come for the wealthiest nation on earth, Barack Obama has said it succinctly that American people will expect “trillion-dollar deficits for years to come.” He was not exaggerating. According to analysts, it will take years before the USA can recover from an economic meltdown. Some greedy people in the finance sector, [...]

In spite of only 40 percent approval, the US Congress agreed to give a huge chunk of taxpayer money to a few Wall Street bankers. It was intended to jolt back into life what was a flagging economy. In reality, all it did was untighten credit facilities. The US economy is not really past the flaccid state. The banks did not resume their lending, stock [...]