Matthew Borghese – AHN News Contributor Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Vermont’s Independent Sen. Bernard Sanders spent over eight hours denouncing the new agreement to extend Bush-era tax cuts to millions of Americans. Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sanders spoke out against President Barack Obama’s efforts, saying the deal only increases [...]

AHN News Staff Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – In an attempt to prevent President Barack Obama’s plan to bring terror suspects to the United States for trial, the House voted 212-206 on Tuesday to curb the government’s expenses in the fiscal year. The measure targeted funds aimed at transferring inmates from a military holding [...]

Britain feared that the election of Mr Barrack Obama as US president could hurt London’s relations with America because of the way Mr Obama’s grandfather was treated by the British, according to leaked secret diplomatic documents. View full post on All Stories

AHN News Staff D.C., Washington, United States (AHN) – Over 21,000 transactions were made by the U.S. Federal Reserve when it stabilized the financial markets. Details of the transactions made in 2008 and 2009 were posted on the agency’s website upon order by Congress. The details include names of companies that borrowed money and the [...]

As the furor over thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables intercepted and spread to news organizations by WikiLeaks continues, the corporate IT world is surely looking inward for lessons to be learned. The site was accessible again on Tuesday, reportedly going through a rented server in the U.S. after it came under apparent attack from hackers [...]

In a special Thanksgiving Weekly Address, President Obama expressed gratitude to America’s military men and women and their families, and discussed the steps his administration is taking to help create jobs so that next Thanksgiving, Americans can give thanks for a stronger economy. In addition, President Obama released the following Presidential Proclamation: A beloved American [...]

The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – In the lobby, a pair of workers is hanging large portrait photographs of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, while outside a construction scaffolding sits close by the front entrance, but otherwise the West Bank’s first five-star hotel is open for business. Banners advertising the Palestinian stock [...]

The Media Line Staff Sudan (TML) – Arieh O’Sullivan The time for decision is fast approaching for the people of southern Sudan, who are going to the polls to decide if the largest country in Africa will be split into two. Voter registration has begun for the long-awaited referendum that aims to end one of [...]

President Barack Obama praised Spain as a “valuable ally” of the United States in Latin America and said that “a wide range of opportunities” exists for the two countries to “work together to achieve goals we share.” View full post on All Stories

AHN News Staff California, United States (AHN) – After helping people around the world search and learn about anything under the sun, popular search engine Google has come up with an online fashion store, which it calls “Boutiques.com.” This store would allow the users to “create and edit” their own boutiques through computer vision and [...]

The Media Line Staff Jerusalem, Israel David Rosenberg and Benja – Israel’s housing shortage and the skyrocketing prices that it has created are unlikely to be solved by the government’s latest measures because the industry faces critical shortages of labor and bureaucratic obstacles to building, industry leaders said. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Housing and [...]