Kenny Cooper's first MLS goal gave FC Dallas a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Fire in the first game of the league's season on Saturday.Cooper made his MLS debut in the game's 65th minute and scored 5 minutes later to
About the only question left for the final round of the BellSouth Classic was whether Phil Mickelson can make some more history.The defending champion had five straight birdies on the front nine en route to a 5-under 67 Saturday and
The U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, will give smaller businesses access to international markets, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya told a news conference where he was joined by U.S. Ambassador Charles Ford.
Bob Seidensticker, 48, graduated from MIT in 1980, and spent 25 years in the field of technology, including a stint developing software and products for Microsoft. He quit that job in 1997. He spoke with U.S. News about his new
Wall Street focuses on jobs this week, as the Labor Department releases its much-anticipated March jobs report. Investors are counting on a Goldilocks scenario—one where the job market is neither too hot (which would raise concerns about inflation) nor too
While the Senate continues to debate immigration reform, lawmakers are trying to work out a behind-the-scenes compromise on a controversial temporary worker program.
The voice of the turtle, as the Song of Solomon (2:11-12) instructs, has not been heard yet in these parts. But the other signs of spring are all sure here--the warbling of the birds, the flowers profligate in their rich
It's a group you'd be hard pressed to find sharing the same table, much less a point of view. Evangelicals and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Greenpeace and DuPont. Even some Republicans and Democrats are growing flirtatious. It's still no
In his day job, Glenn Reynolds is a law professor at the University of Tennessee. The 45-year-old has also tried his hand at beer brewing, recording music, penning novels, launching instapundit.com--a popular interactive website for libertarian and conservative political commentary--and
Call it the Greenhouse in the Statehouse effect. While climate change may sow no fear in the White House, plenty of worried governors, legislators, and other local officials are rejecting Washington's cue.
At the White House last month, the Southern Baptist Convention's top political officer, Richard Land, told President Bush he was offended by the number of illegal immigrants living with impunity in the United States. "When government does not enforce laws,"
Inside a low-slung bunker in a quiet residential neighborhood in Baghdad, Falah al-Naqib was holding court in his temporary office. It was July 2004, and Iraq's new interior minister was briefing a team of U.S. civilian advisers on his plan
Under normal circumstances, when the press characterizes a party that is (a) in disarray, (b) seeking an identity, or (c) without a message, it's usually the Democrats. After all, they have no unifying agenda, and, even if they did, they
San Francisco start-up Pay By Touch didn't take venture-capital money when it sought $130 million in new financing for its biometric fingerprint-reading system. The battered baker Krispy Kreme Doughnuts shunned banks when it wanted to refinance its debt. And the
Bryce Miller's work as an industrial engineer in Topeka, Kan., wasn't a whole lot more challenging than the job he faces in retirement: engineering his own medical care by 10 different doctors. Miller, 74, sees a team of specialists, which
One big reason depression goes untreated is that people can't afford to seek help. Cost-conscious insurers often don't cover mental-health care at all. Or they limit the number of visits, or charge higher deductibles and copayments for talk therapy than
