National

The world’s population is on its way to reach seven billion people in 2011. Population Reference Bureau numbers show the growth of the global youth population is shifting into the poorest nations. Nearly 90% of young people live in nations known as developing countries. Eight in ten of those youth live in Africa and Asia. […]

VIA CBS NEWS: (CBS/ AP) The number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes rose 7 percent from June to July, as the escalating foreclosure crisis continued to outpace government efforts to limit the damage. Foreclosure filings were up 32 percent from the same month last year, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday. More […]

(Abuja) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is wrapping up her 11-day, seven-nation Africa trip on what’s being seen as a mostly goodwill and listening tour. Clinton leaves Abuja today for a brief stopover in Liberia’s capital of Monrovia before overnighting in Cape Verde. She returns to Washington on Friday. The trip was Clinton’s longest […]

VIA NEW YORK TIMES: Our story so far: Chapter 1: Apple creates the iPhone. Chapter 2: Apple opens the App Store, an online catalog of cheap or free programs that you can download straight to the phone. Programmers all over the world write 70,000 apps for it that perform every amazing feat you can name. […]

(Hyannis Port, MA) — A public wake is being held today for the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver. The wake is scheduled to run from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.  at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts. A private funeral Mass is set for Friday morning at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, Massachusetts. […]

(Medford, MA) — Young people who focus all of their extracurricular activities on sports are putting themselves at risk. Researchers at Tufts University have found adolescent boys and girls who don’t get involved in activities other than sports tend to have the lowest test scores in competence, confidence, character, connection and caring. They have the […]

(Springfield, VA)  —  A local astronaut is going back to outer space.  Patrick Forrester of Springfield will go on Space Shuttle Discovery’s next journey to the International Space Station.  This is Forrester’s third shuttle mission.  His first was in 2001 aboard Discovery.  During the mission, he took two spacewalks and worked on key robotics equipment.  […]

VIA OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY: Hillary Clinton’s Congo blow-up is a story that just won’t go away. Even those sympathetic to Obama and Clinton, like Jon Stewart, are having a field day with this. Mrs. Clinton’s answer on Monday has quickly become the No. 1 sound bite from her trip. Her whole seven-nation Africa tour, which […]

VIA WASHINGTON POST: PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Aug. 11 — President Obama began a personal effort Tuesday to reclaim momentum for his health-care initiative with a direct rebuttal of what he called “scare tactics,” rumors and misrepresentations. Senior adviser David Axelrod said the president had for weeks been “relishing” the opportunity to engage with people to defend […]