Below is a video and transcript of Ronald Reagan’s famous “A Time for Choosing” speech, delivered October 27, 1964. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs,
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says dozens of Army soldiers and their two-star general are being isolated at their base in Vicenza, Italy, as they return after serving in West Africa to help with the Ebola fight. Maj. Gen. Darryl
If Republicans win control of both the House and Senate, “the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of the middle class,” President Barack Obama said at a $32,500-a-plate fundraiser at the $16 million Greenwich, Conn., estate of a
(Reuters) – Tunisia’s Ennahda party, the first Islamist movement to secure power after the 2011 “Arab Spring” revolts, conceded defeat on Monday in elections that are set to make its main secular rival the strongest force in parliament. Official results
Five-year-old British brain tumour patient Ashya King is back in Spain from Prague after undergoing proton therapy which is unavailable in Britain, the family’s lawyer said Monday. The clinic is “possibly” located in the southern city of Malaga where King’s
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged Humvee armoured vehicle near security forces and allied militiamen south of Baghdad, killing at least 14, an officer and a doctor said Monday. The blast took place on the northern edge of Jurf al-Sakhr,
This article originally appeared on Vox: The gulags of North Korea exist in a strange world between secret and unsecret. No one knows for sure how many thousands or millions are locked away in the camps, which officially do not
This Human Rights Watch report was originally published at The Huffington Post: (London) – Women and girls abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram are forced to marry, convert, and endure physical and psychological abuse, forced labor, and rape in
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff was re-elected Sunday in the tightest race Brazil has seen since its return to democracy three decades ago, giving the juggernaut Workers’ Party its fourth-straight presidential victory and the chance to
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s main secular opposition party was claiming victory on Monday over once dominant Islamists in the country’s historic parliamentary elections. Partial results from the official election commission are expected to be released throughout the day Monday,
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Two pro-European parties that campaigned for tough reforms to battle corruption shared the lead Monday after Ukraine’s parliamentary election, according to partial results. With more than half the votes counted, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Popular Front
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — A Syrian activist group said Sunday that the death toll in 40 days of fighting in and around the northern Syrian border town of Kobani has reached 815, as Kurdish fighters battled Muslim militants for a
BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber driving a military Humvee struck a checkpoint manned by Iraqi troops and pro-government Shiite militiamen south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 24 people, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for
(Reuters) – British troops ended their combat operations in Afghanistan on Sunday as they and U.S. Marines handed over two huge adjacent bases to the Afghan military, 13 years after a U.S.-led invasion launched the long and costly war against
Director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering from Weinstein Company’s Radius division, responsible for the Oscar-nominated documentary The Invisible War, which examined rape in the military, are partnering with CNN Films for a project about sexual assault on college campuses. According to
Healthcare experts say a vexing problem that puts patients at risk is playing out nationally: the computer systems American hospitals and doctors’ offices use to send and store a patient’s medical records can’t talk to one another. Worse, when Americans
A British teacher pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of funding would-be fighters going to Syria and planning to go there himself, but said he did not support the Islamic State group. Lawyers for chemistry teacher Jamshed Javeed, 30, told
BAMAKO/NOUAKCHOTT, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Mauritania has closed its border with Mali to prevent the spread of Ebola, officials said on Saturday, highlighting fears of further contagion in West Africa after a girl from Guinea died of the disease in
(Reuters) – A 5-year-old boy who arrived from Guinea was being observed in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York City for possible Ebola symptoms, according to media reports Monday, as New York and New Jersey stuck to new plans
Abbas Khan, the British doctor who died in a Syrian jail last year, was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury in London ruled on Monday. Syrian authorities claimed that Khan, who was arrested last year after travelling to Aleppo to treat
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian rebels have attacked a government-held city in the country’s northwest and that 19 men died on both sides in the clashes. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Nusra
Kurdish forces have thwarted a new attempt by Islamic State group fighters to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy. The pre-dawn assault marked the fourth straight day the
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The captain of South Africa’s national soccer team was fatally shot at a friend’s house during an attempted robbery on Sunday night, police said. Goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was killed around 8 p.m. after two gunmen entered a
PARIS (Reuters) – As a young aide to then-French prime minister Lionel Jospin in the late 1990s, Manuel Valls sat in on meetings as Britain’s Tony Blair and Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder tried to persuade his boss to help them reinvent
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government will back the development of an east-west high speed rail link between cities in northern England, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday. The link, dubbed High Speed 3, was among options highlighted in
