News of the Year |
If you had to sum up 2009 congressional politics with one topic,
healthcare would be the hands-down winner. From a White House
roundtable discussion in March…
News of the Yeaer |
In June, Iranians took to the streets decrying a government-rigged
election that declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the Iranian president.
The government fought…
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After the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America (ELCA) voted to allow noncelibate gay clergy on its
leadership rosters, the…
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President Obama signed an executive order in January ordering the
military prison at Guantanamo Bay to be closed. By fall, he
acknowledged it wasn't possible,
News of the Year |
U.S. combat operations in Vietnam began in 1965 and lasted until a
formal ceasefire in 1973. By that measure combat operations in
Afghanistan, which began in…
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The Florida Gators knocked off top-ranked Oklahoma in early January
for their second national championship in three years. Gators
quarterback Tim Tebow rushed…
Human Race |
BEATEN: The normally combative career of Italy's prime minister
Silvio Berlusconi turned bloody on Dec. 14 when the 73-year-old
head of state came under…
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If Barack Obama had to choose his best day of 2009, it would not be
surprising if his thoughts returned to Jan. 20, the day he stood on
the U.S. Capitol steps…
News of the Year |
Bernard Madoff, the perpetrator of perhaps the largest investment
fraud in Wall Street history scammed even his own sister out of $3
million-along with…
News of the Year |
The stock market fell down several flights of stairs this year, the
Dow Jones reaching its low point in March, down to 6,400 points
from its all-time peak of…
News of Year |
In the aftermath of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's improbably
large June 12 reelection victory came an improbably large response:
Millions turned out in…
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"I'm going to put my spacesuit on, next stop: Earth Orbit!!"
tweeted NASA astronaut Mike Massimino the morning before his May
shuttle launch. Twitter founder…
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By the end of the year, aid workers in East Asia were still
calculating the damage from a triple calamity that brought massive
misery: a typhoon, a tsunami,
News of the Year |
It was the almost comeback. The sudden June 25 death of Michael
Jackson came only weeks before the megastar was to open "This Is
It," a sold-out, 50-show…
News of the Year |
Two young women spending nearly nine months in Iran's notorious
Evin Prison became the face of persecuted religious minorities in
the Islamic state after…
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The year began in Israel with one of the tightest elections in the
country's modern history. Both candidates claimed victory in the
Feb. 10 contest, but…
