December 3rd, 2009
An executive with knowledge of the negotiations says ABC News has offered George Stephanopoulos (STEFF’-uh-nop-oh-luss) the job of “Good Morning America” co-anchor, although ABC’s political expert hasn’t said he will take it.
Stephanopoulos has been considered the top contender to fill Diane Sawyer’s job in the morning after she takes over later this month as “World News” anchor. The executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the executive was not authorized to speak publicly about hiring matters, confirmed a Washington Post report that the job is Stephanopoulos’ to accept or turn down.
ABC would not comment on the report and a spokeswoman said Stephanopoulos was unavailable. The current host of the Sunday political talk show “This Week” would likely have to move to New York for spot on the morning show, which is considered an important profit generator for the network.
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December 3rd, 2009
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December 3rd, 2009
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December 2nd, 2009
Indonesia has banned the film Balibo, which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor, the head of the foreign correspondents club said.
The club cancelled a screening of the film on legal advice that they could face charges.
The journalists died as Indonesian troops invaded East Timor in 1975.
Jakarta maintains they were killed accidentally in cross-fire. But an Australian coroner found in 2007 that the journalists had been executed.
The journalists - two Australians, two Britons and a New Zealander - were killed in the border town of Balibo as Indonesian forces entered East Timor.
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December 2nd, 2009
A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama’s escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the president’s chief military and diplomatic advisers sought to cool any expectations that the war would end in two years.
Leading Democrats said they had serious misgivings about the deployment of 30,000 more troops but would not try to block it — or the $30 billion it will cost. Republicans said they support the force increase even as they doubted Obama’s July 2011 deadline to start bringing troops home.
The response was the best Obama could have hoped for from a Congress sharply divided on the war.
“It’s not likely that there would be any circumstances where the president would lose this battle this year” with lawmakers, said Rep. John Murtha, a vocal war critic who oversees military spending.
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December 2nd, 2009
Manny Pacquiao was cheered on as he filed his candidacy in Alabel
Philippine boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has submitted his candidacy for the 2010 elections to congress.
He claimed his seventh world boxing title in seven different weight classes after defeating Miguel Cotto last month to win the WBO’s welterweight crown.
This will be his second attempt to gain political office. He was defeated in the congressional election of 2007.
Mr Pacquiao filed his candidacy in Alabel town in the southern province of Sarangani on Mindanao island.
He arrived at the local election office at the head of a convoy of 20 vehicles, cheered on by around 100 supporters.
The boxer submitted his nomination as a candidate of his own People’s Champ Movement (PCM).
He told reporters: “I want only good things for Sarangani.
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December 2nd, 2009
All South African babies under the age of one will be treated if they test HIV-positive, President Jacob Zuma has announced in a major policy overhaul.
In a widely welcomed speech to mark World Aids Day, he promised more anti-retrovirals - drugs which the previous government said were too costly.
And he announced he was preparing to take an HIV test himself.
Each year 59,000 babies are born with HIV in a country where 5.2 million people live with the virus.
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November 30th, 2009
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November 30th, 2009
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November 30th, 2009
The 60 votes aren’t there any more.
With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to advance is fracturing already. Yet majority Democrats will need 60 votes again to finish.
Some Democratic senators say they’ll jump ship from the bill without tighter restrictions on abortion coverage. Others say they’ll go unless a government plan to compete with private insurance companies gets tossed overboard. Such concessions would enrage liberals, the heart and soul of the party.
There’s no clear course for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to steer legislation through Congress to President Barack Obama. You can’t make history unless you reach 60 votes, and don’t count on Republicans helping him.
But Reid is determined to avoid being remembered as another Democrat who tried and failed to make health care access for the middle class a part of America’s social safety net.
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