New York's currently: waiting for the sirens' call Bill that would bar illegal aliens from driver's licenses, limit asylum, and erect a border fence gets White House support. White House triples U.S. tsunami aid, to $950 million. Newly declassified accounts from Gitmo detainees say
New York's currently: wondering if a personal library is worth its weight when it comes time for moving Sharon and Abbas declare truce, Hamas declares "no," despite agreeing to temporary period of quiet. Suicide bomber kills 21 in Baghdad, among the 168 dead since the elections.
New York's currently: finding what's been under these snowdrifts Bush sends budget to Congress: murky areas, but lots of cuts; down on education; down on food and heating; up on military; and the full breakdown, by agency Why Congress isn't going to go along
New York's currently: capping a beautiful weekend with a gorgeous Monday Surging civic pride in Iraq may be quelling the insurgency. Eighty percent of 10th-graders in 2002 aspired to college, up 21 points from 1990. Account from Guantanamo Bay from man who spent 33 months inside. The
New York's currently: ready to take this thing off some sweet jumps Gonzales squeaks in with Attorney General confirmation. Rhetoric in action: Less than a day after Bush says he's working with Europe to stop Iran's nuclear program, Rice, in her first move as
New York's currently: five boroughs of sickness Georgia's prime minister killed by gas poisoning, with no evidence of foul play. State of the Union: Fix social security using Democrats' ideas; encourage Iranians to revolt, Saudi Arabia and Egypt to overhaul; send aid to Palestinians, and
New York's currently: celebrating the fourteenth anniversary of Point Break Howard Dean, the "almost assured" new leader of the DNC. Egypt cracks down on opposition groups hoping to stop Mubarak from extending his 24-year rule. Tests conclude that North Korea sold processed uranium to Libya,
New York's currently: much nicer than Paris, weather-wise, this time of year Allawi makes big friendly speech, and headlines, hoping he can break the dominant Shiite coalition. U.N. says no government-sponsored genocide in Darfur, but war-crimes courts should prosecute killers responsible for 70,000
New York's currently: frozen but balmy Undeterred by threats and terrorism (and triple the average number of attacks), Iraqi voters show up in unexpected numbers. Iraq militant group claims responsibility for downing of a British transport plane, which killed 15. Israel says it's ready to hand
New York's currently: a fjord of storm gutters Election in Iraq: Country goes into three-day lockdown as the violence continues and a candidate is assassinated. The FBI is going ahead with expanding its intelligence gathering on foreign entities within the U.S. despite the CIA's
