Hurricane Bill’s winds may have slowed slightly in the Atlantic Ocean, but the Bermuda Weather Service nonetheless issued a hurricane watch Thursday to prepare those on the island for a severe storm in the next 36 hours. Share Forecasters try to predict when and where the storm will make landfall.The Category 3 hurricane was less [...]
Posts on ‘August 21st, 2009’
Convicted Lockerbie Bomber Returns Home to Libya, a Hero
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing, which killed 270 people, received a hero’s welcome back home in Libya today just hours after being released from a Scottish jail. Share A judge has granted Abdel Baset al-Megrahi a compassionate release. He was greeted by a large [...]
Obama Points Finger at GOP Leadership on Health Care
While continuing to argue he wants a bipartisan bill, President Barack Obama today, for the first time, publicly blamed congressional Republican leaders for seeing health care overhaul in only political terms. And he also acknowledged for the first time that Democrats might go it alone. Share The president accuses Republicans of trying to kill his [...]