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(March 10) — A group of educators released this day the first draft of a proposed set of national core standards for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. The call for national standards is supported by 48 states, the District of Columbia, two territories and the Obama administration, but it ...
(March 10) — The United States is intensifying pressure on Iran commercially and diplomatically amid the push for new international sanctions targeting Tehran’s nuclear program.
President Barack Obama late Wednesday signed executive orders renewing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act “to deal with the uncommon and extraordinary threat to the national ...
(March 9) — The campaign to rein in a type of risky investment villainized in the economic crisis and blamed for the government bailout of AIG and the financial collapse of Greece is gaining momentum in Washington and other capitals, where officials are comparing it to piracy of another age.
On ...
(March 10) — Police in Indonesia have killed the suspected mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings in a shootout at a Jakarta Internet café, striking a large blow to Islamic terrorism in the world’s most populous Muslim country.
Indonesia’s president announced the raid during a speech this day at Australia’s parliament. ...
(March — Sunday was a sad day for supercentenarians: Two of the 10 oldest people in the world died within a 24-hour span.
“March 7, 2010, will go down in history as the first time two top-10 supercentenarians died on the same day,” stated Robert Young, of the Gerontology Research ...
(March — Kim Il-sung’s former personal shopper has provided further details of the luxurious lifestyle enjoyed by North Korea’s brutal dictatorship in a tell-all biography. Austrian journalists Ingrid Steiner-Gashi and Dardan Gashi have just published “At the Dictator’s Service” (“Im Dienst des Diktators”), which lays out how Kim Jong-ryul ...
JERUSALEM (March 7) — A new flurry of diplomacy to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace speaks and a visit this week by Vice President Joe Biden come after more than a year of a freeze in the discussions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met visiting U.S. special envoy George Mitchell for four hours ...
Without suspense, Tom Hanks opened the envelope and read ‘The Hurt Locker’ as ideal picture winner. The Iraq war drama also walked away with the most awards of the night — six.
Meanwhile, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the ideal director Oscar for ‘Locker,’ over her ex James ...
(March 6) – A New Hampshire high school English instructor is charged with indecent exposure and lewdness for allegedly sending nude pics of herself to a 15-year-old male student, who then forwarded the images to his classmates.
Melinda Dennehy, a 41-year-old mom of two from Hampstead, turned herself into police on ...
(March 6) — Someone in the Golden State holds the winning ticket to the Mega Millions jackpot, which peaked at $133 million Friday night.
The winning numbers were 11, 31, 34, 44 and 52. The Mega Ball was 32.
Seven other lucky players joined the now-multimillionaire from California in netting some cash ...