Nov 6, 2009 The toll in yesterday's shootings at Fort Hood, Texas stands now at 13 killed, 28 others wounded. And the man now identified as the shooter is an Army major and psychiatrist named Nidal Malik Hassan. |
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Nov 6, 2009 We're close now to a major legislative test on health care reform. |
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Nov 6, 2009 Not very much attention has been paid until now to the effects of air pollution on young infants. |
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Nov 6, 2009 Centuries of evolution have shaped human hearing to recognize and appreciate subtle changes in sound --- the wind blowing through the trees, the song of birds, sometimes a distant cry of distress or of approaching danger. |
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Nov 5, 2009 At a meeting of its Open Market Committee yesterday, the Fed decided to keep its key interest rate at current record lows for an "extended period." |
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Nov 5, 2009 Decisionmaking about a place like Afghanistan is difficult, because the enemy keeps forcing your hand. |
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Nov 5, 2009 In an ideal world, all an agency like the FDA would have to do is just put information on the medicine bottle and that would be enough. But in the real world --- in the bathrooms and hospitals, doctor's offices, and homes --- people make mistakes. |
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Nov 5, 2009 The three strains of regular seasonal flu should not be taken lightly --- they kill 36,000 people a year in the United States. It's still a little early for that sort of flu --- there've been virtually no cases of it so far --- but it is coming. The H1N1 swine flu is a different story, though. |
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Nov 4, 2009 On the morning after Election Day, the Governor of New Jersey is, Chris Christie. |
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Nov 4, 2009 Although President Obama campaigned for the losing gubernatorial candidate in both New Jersey and Virginia, the White House can point to exit polls that say Obama was not a factor in either state. |
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Nov 4, 2009 Today, on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Iran by Islamic militants and the seizing of 52 hostages there, there were government-sponsored demonstrations at the embassy site in Tehran --- people waving anti American signs and shouting anti-American slogans. |
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Nov 4, 2009 In setting up priorities for the available H1N1 flu vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control continues to favor children. |
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Nov 3, 2009 President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has been declared the President of Afghanistan, and therefore that is what he is. |
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Nov 3, 2009 It's Election Day today. These aren't the midterms; those aren't until next November. But here and there, there are contests that could be portents --- harbingers, perhaps, depending on where you stand --- of things to come. |
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Nov 3, 2009 When the Fed meets today and tomorrow, those who lend or who borrow will be listening hard to detect any sign whatsoever that the Fed may suspect there'll be interest rate hikes up ahead. |
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Nov 3, 2009 There are various therapies to get smokers to quit --- lozenges, patches, chewing gum, sprays, inhalers, you name it -- alone or in combinations. And they all seem to work --- for a while, anyway. |
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Nov 2, 2009 Afghanistan's election commission has canceled next Saturday's presidential runoff --- and has declared President Hamid Karzai the winner. |
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Nov 2, 2009 Yesterday, after months of struggling to avoid collapse, CIT Group filed for bankruptcy protection. That is bad news for small business. |
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Nov 2, 2009 The H1N1 flu is now widespread in 48 states, and children are dying --- 19 children died of it in the week between October 17th to the 24th. |
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Nov 2, 2009 Supply and demand are the two factors that control the price of anything --- whether its food, fuel, or any commodity. |
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Oct 30, 2009 With economic numbers for the third quarter --- July through September --- reported and analyzed, the government can now speak of the recession in the past tense: it's over. And the R-Word question is now: Will the recovery hold? |
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Oct 30, 2009 As the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Military, President Obama meets today with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon's board of directors. This could be a pivotal meeting, as the President decides on the future of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
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Oct 30, 2009 Who would have thought that Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, two of the fiercest competitors in the history of basketball... |
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Oct 30, 2009 On Halloween, a lot of people will be dressed up as witches or ghosts or and goblins. But, you know what people really find frightening, according to a poll by CareerBuilder? |
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Oct 29, 2009 The government's first accounting of jobs "created or saved" by President Obama's 787 billion dollar stimulus program seems to be off more than just a little when held up to scrutiny. |
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Oct 29, 2009 In the defense bill that President Obama signed yesterday is money to pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency in Afghanistan. |
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Oct 29, 2009 It was on this day 80 years ago --- October 29th, 1929 --- "Black Tuesday" --- that the stock market crashed --- starting a great chain of events, says history professor John Kneebone, connected to Virginia Commonwealth University. |
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Oct 29, 2009 Ever wonder what becomes of some of the people who appear on the TV reality shows? |
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Oct 28, 2009 President Obama has yet to make up his mind about a new course in Afghanistan. But his advisers say it is not a question of whether to send more troops there, but how many more. |
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Oct 28, 2009 Liberal Democrats were able to get their "public option" insurance idea into the health care bill by letting the states opt out if they want. |
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Oct 28, 2009 Dr. David Weir of the University of Michigan is the lead author of a study that was done for the National Football League. He says his work did not prove any connection between concussions and memory disorders. But, 56 former NFL players have reported memory-related problems, including dementia and Alzheimer's Disease. |
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Oct 28, 2009 Texting while driving a car is so manifestly stupid and dangerous that almost everybody says they think it ought to be against the law, according to the latest CBS News-New York Times Poll |
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Oct 27, 2009 Speaking to sailors and airmen at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station in Florida yesterday, President Obama referred to the 14 Americans killed in air crashes yesterday in Afghanistan. |
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Oct 27, 2009 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wanted to, as he puts it, "move forward" on health reform... |
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Oct 27, 2009 At a solar energy facility in Arcadia, Florida today, President Obama will announce that he's making 3.4 billion dollars in government funds available to make the nation's electric grid "smarter." |
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Oct 27, 2009 CBS News Medical Correspondent Jennifer Ashton is a practicing OB-GYN doctor --- and she tells us that more and more pregnant women are now looking for the H1N1 flu shot, and they're urged to do so. |
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Oct 26, 2009 In yesterday's car bombings near two government buildings in the heart of Baghdad, the death toll stands now at 155, more than 500 injured --- the deadliest such incident in Iraq in two years. |
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Oct 26, 2009 Trying to get economists to agree on anything is like herding cats. That's why a new survey out today is so remarkable --- and so encouraging. |
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Oct 26, 2009 Today at The Hague, on opening day of the trial of Radovan Karadzic... |
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Oct 26, 2009 No matter how cold it gets this winter, Simon Hare and his wife will not turn up the thermostat in their cozy 750 square foot, two-story cottage in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. That's because they don't have a thermostat, and that's because they have no furnace --- no heater of any kind --- to turn up. |
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Oct 23, 2009 Washington took charge of executive pay on two fronts yesterday. |
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Oct 23, 2009 The top executives at those seven companies whose pay the government has ordered substantially chopped were amazingly tone deaf, didn't understand --- or perhaps didn't care --- how the taxpayers would feel about them taking billion of taxpayer bailout dollars, and then giving themselves billions in bonuses. |
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Oct 23, 2009 To review NASA's plans for human space flight --- which include a revisit to the Moon, for which two new rockets and a capsule are being developed --- President Obama appointed an independent panel headed by Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin. |
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Oct 23, 2009 What's going on with the price of oil? |
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Oct 22, 2009 The 25 highest-paid executives at each of the seven big companies that got the most bailout money from the government are having their salaries reduced by an average 90%, and their overall compensation cut in half --- by order of the government. |
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Oct 22, 2009 President Obama unveiled plans yesterday to refocus spending of what's left of the 700 billion dollar bailout money away from the biggest banks and financial institutions --- to make it easier for the much smaller community banks that theoretically lend to small business to actually do so. |
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Oct 22, 2009 The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial is out with it's latest "Un-Retirement Index." This latest finding is that 65% of American workers now expect to hold off retiring, for now --- and 27% now expect to work five years more than they ever thought they would. |
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Oct 22, 2009 The Holy Grail of radiation therapy for cancer would be to be to find a way to stop the radiation from hurting healthy cells. |
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Oct 21, 2009 Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and his chief rival, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, have both agreed to a runoff election to be held November 7th. That's two weeks from this Saturday. |
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Oct 21, 2009 New government figures on the swine flu came out yesterday: 292 people in 28 states have died of the flu since the end of August. |
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Oct 21, 2009 President Obama is expected to announce a new program to try to increase liquidity by giving small community banks access to the government's 700 billion dollar financial rescue fund. |
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Oct 21, 2009 Whatever you're looking for days, you can usually find on the Internet, even that special someone to share your life with. Computer dating is a big business here in the United States, and many people swear by it. But have you heard of Lisdoonvarna? |
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Oct 20, 2009 93% of the known executions in the world last year took place in five countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United States. |
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Oct 20, 2009 A panel of the Institute of Medicine is out today with proposed new standards for school cafeteria meals to replace the 14-year-old existing standards. |
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Oct 20, 2009 While giving you a routine physical, your primary care doctor could also check you out for skin cancer, especially for the deadly form called melanoma. |
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Oct 20, 2009 When we age --- not that I would know anything about this, you understand --- certain structural and functional changes occur in the brain that can make us seem ... not quite as sharp as we once were --- and sometimes cause those around us to fear that we are, shall we say ... losing it. |
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Oct 19, 2009 In last week's "balloon boy" story, "It has be determined that this is a hoax." |
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Oct 19, 2009 Energy drinks are a six-billion-dollar business. According to a study published in the prestigious "Annals of Emergency Medicine," so-called energy drinks compared to soda have no significant effect on performance or dexterity. |
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Oct 19, 2009 In most cases the swine flu symptoms are not substantially different from regular seasonal flu. But in some people, says Pulmonary Specialist Dr. Jonathan Whiteson of NYU, the H1N1 virus can make them very sick indeed within a frighteningly short time. |
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Oct 19, 2009 President Obama is saying he won't insist on a public option to drive down premium costs, although that would be his preference, and the White House is lobbying for that. |
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Oct 16, 2009 For several hours yesterday, a little boy of six was missing ... and the world thought he was in an awful fix. It was thought he'd gotten into his dad's home made helium balloon...which had taken off without him...and seemed headed towards the moon. |
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Oct 16, 2009 The Bush Administration's response to Hurricane Katrina and the devastation in New Orleans four years ago was widely criticized at the time ...and even later during the Presidential campaign...Candidate Barak Obama took President Bush to task for it. |
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Oct 16, 2009 Retirees on Social Security are unhappy to say the least. |
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Oct 16, 2009 There's a lot of truth in some of those County music songs. We all know why so many country artists live in Tennessee...that's where Nashville is. But how do you explain that classic George Strait? |
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Oct 15, 2009 When the Dow passed the ten thousand mark yesterday there were cheers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. |
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Oct 15, 2009 Now that a bill overhauling American's health care system has been released by the Senate Finance Committee for debate on the floor of the Senate, says Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky. |
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Oct 15, 2009 For several days now, critics of the decisions they think President Obama will make about Afghanistan on troop strength and other tactical and strategic matters there, have been saying how disappointed they are. |
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Oct 15, 2009 President Nixon was often quoted as saying he wanted to make one thing perfectly clear. Well President Obama has many things he wants to be clear about. |
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Oct 14, 2009 The healthcare reform bill reported out of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday is a moderate one in Chairman Max Baucus's opinion. |
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Oct 14, 2009 President Obama's assessment of General McChrystal's assessment of the situation in Afghanistan is still weeks off. |
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Oct 14, 2009 President Obama hoped to reset America's relations with Russia when he cancelled a missile defense system Moscow took exception to. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. |
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Oct 14, 2009 In every year starting with a zero the Census Bureau is charged under the U.S. Constitution with the mandate of going out and counting how many people live here in the United States and collecting where they live for the purpose of assigning representation in the House and information about demographics of the population. |
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Oct 13, 2009 The Senate Finance Committee will vote on a Health Care Plan today, and probably pass it says analyst Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution. |
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Oct 13, 2009 By now, eight years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, we're supposed to have a way of finding our whether a foreign visitor who was supposed to leave after a certain period of time actually has left. If not, then presumably they're still here illegally. |
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Oct 13, 2009 Why do some kids act up and misbehave the way they do? It's very frustrating to parents, schoolteachers and others in authority. Experienced experts in foreign affairs often say the same thing about North Korea when it fires test missiles as it did yesterday and apparently is getting ready to do again. |
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Oct 13, 2009 The latest edition of Healthgrades annual survey of the nation's five thousand non-federal hospitals is out and it says in effect if you have to go to the hospital, be sure to go to a good one. Why? |
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Oct 12, 2009 A year ago, the government stepped in to rescue some the big banks with taxpayer money because it was said they were too big to fail. Now it's some small banks that are falling ... |
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Oct 12, 2009 Kai Eide ... the Norwegian diplomat who is the special United Nations representative in Afghanistan...refuses to say who was being corrupt in Afghanistan's election ... or how much ... except to say that it was widespread." |
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Oct 12, 2009 In the year 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This marvelous Italian fella so impressed Queen Isabella ... she underwrote the daring trip every crewman, every ship. |
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Oct 12, 2009 President Obama ... who ran for office promising change ... is finding that it's difficult to change everything as much and as quickly as some would like him to. He was friendly and supportive of the Gay Rights protesters in Washington yesterday ... but hasn't endorsed federal action on gay marriage. |
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Oct 9, 2009 In the first study of people who came down with the swine flu last spring, it turns out that 25 percent of those sick enough to go to the hospital were put in intensive care. |
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Oct 9, 2009 It's not what you would call a flood of good economic news. But it is getting to be a steady stream. |
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Oct 9, 2009 The Nobel Committee in Oslo announced what nobody had expected ... that they are awarding Mr. Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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Oct 9, 2009 It is said that the most popular word on the Internet is a four letter F word. I refer of course to the word Free. |
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Oct 8, 2009 If something seems too good to be true, it usually turns out not to be true. Not this time, we're told. The Senate Finance Committee has come up with a health care overhaul plan that does seem too good to be true, but is true according to Chairman Max Baucus |
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Oct 8, 2009 There's an epidemic of violence afflicting the nations children, according to a new Justice Department study which says that three out of five children nationwide have been exposed to violence. |
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Oct 8, 2009 This year marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first observations of Jupiter and its moons through a telescope ... and it's been designated the International Year of the Telescope. |
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Oct 8, 2009 According to a Federal survey, 30 million Americans --- one in 7 adults --- are functionally illiterate. That means they cannot read well enough to function effectively. |
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Oct 7, 2009 It was eight years ago today that the United States went to war in Afghanistan against Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida --- and their allies, the Taliban |
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Oct 7, 2009 Talk about keeping your eye on the ball. We Americans have a hard time focusing on more than one thing at a time. In the debate over what we should do about al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, have you heard a lot of talk about Pakistan? |
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Oct 7, 2009 Increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan is not the only thing General Stanley McChrystal wants to do there. |
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Oct 7, 2009 The reason people giving H1N1 flu shots across the country can't tell you whether you can get a flu shot tomorrow is that's the way the Centers for Disease Control has set it up. |
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Oct 6, 2009 On the eve of the eighth anniversary of America's military mission in Afghanistan, President Obama has invited a group of Congressional leaders to the White House today to talk about that country. |
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Oct 6, 2009 In reassessing the situation in Afghanistan, where the war is not going well, one theory being put forth is that we should redefine what it's all about: continue the war against al-Qaida, but not try to defend Afghanistan from the Taliban. |
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Oct 6, 2009 What if you could be vaccinated against substance abuse? |
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Oct 6, 2009 Do you get the feeling sometimes that in the fine print mailings you get from banks and brokers --- which they urge you to read carefully --- that they don't expect you to read them at all? That, in fact, they don't want you to read them at all? |
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Oct 5, 2009 It's clear things are not getting any better for us in Afghanistan. As President Obama's only recently chosen commander in the field over there, General Stanley McChrystal, said the other day... |
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Oct 5, 2009 The Dow Jones Industrial Average --- which rose 45% from its levels last March --- had a second straight-losing week last week, and went down two percent in the first two days of October. What's going on here? |
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Oct 5, 2009 As Chairman of the Federal Reserve, under both Democratic and Republican Presidents, Alan Greenspan presided over an extraordinary period of economic expansion, navigating the tricky currents with a deft sense when to tweak interest rates up or down to keep the economy on course. |
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Oct 5, 2009 It was thought until now that one American child out of every 150 was afflicted with autism disorders. But, two new government studies conclude that it is substantially more than that --- more like one out of every hundred. |
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