Federal Minimum Wage Hike Kicks In Today (Washington, DC) -- Employees earning minimum wage will get a pay raise today but soaring gas and food prices will likely gobble it up. The second of three wage increases will boost the minimum hourly wage to six-dollars-55-cents ...Read More
Obama Visits Jerusalem's Western Wall (Jerusalem) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a surprise pre-dawn visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall today. Donning a Jewish skullcap, the Illinois Senator placed a prayer he had written in the wall ...Read More
Trial Of Former Bin Laden Driver Produces More Denials (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) -- The trial of former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan continued yesterday at the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A black-and-white interrogation video was the focus of yesterday's proceedings ...Read More
House Judiciary Subcommittee To Hear Testimony On Immigration Raid (Postville, IA) -- Lawmakers in Washington will take a close look at the largest single-site immigration raid in U.S. history today. Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley plans to testify during today's hearing before a House Judiciary Subcommittee ...Read More
