Xintang, China – The authorities here are obviously nervous. My crew and I are sitting in a local government building being questioned by six propaganda officials. One of them is scribbling down our credentials in a worn pocket-sized notebook. My producer, Steven Jiang, is talking non-stop to one officer who looks especially nonplussed. We traveled [...]
WASHINGTON— As part of the Obama administration’s continued commitment to smart, effective immigration enforcement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced key improvements to the Secure Communities program—a program that prioritizes removal resources on individuals who are found to be illegally in the country after being arrested for other crimes. “Secure Communities is a [...]
To find the online megamall for stolen credit cards, I have to go to Pittsburgh. That’s where Keith Mularski works. He’s a cybercrime agent with the FBI, and he’s going to show me how to buy thousands of stolen credit card numbers. Mularski pulls up a login screen on his browser. To even be able [...]
Amnesty International calls today for the immediate and unconditional release of seven prisoners of conscience, arrested and charged merely for their involvement in a peaceful political protest and flag-raising. Their case highlights the continued failure of the Indonesian government to distinguish between armed groups and peaceful political activists. A group of activists including students took [...]
Dozens of churches in Indonesia come under attack every year and the country’s president is failing to take action to stop it – according to a leading Catholic peace activist who has produced a report setting out the scale of the problem. Since 2006, more than 200 attacks on churches have been recorded by the [...]
Washington– A potential hit list suggesting individuals in U.S. government, industry and the media was posted on jihadi Web forums, according to an FBI intelligence bulletin obtained by CNN. The FBI document was dated June 8 and says “while the information posted was detailed, it appears aspirational in nature and it is unknown whether the [...]
The official unemployment rate, the headline number that comes out every month, was 9.1 percent in May. It measures how many people are out of work and looking for a job. Then there’s the U-6, which is technically the broadest measure of unemployment. It includes people who are underemployed — meaning they want more work [...]
In her trip through China’s Suining County in Jiangsu province, journalist Mara Hvistendahl saw plenty of familiar signs of economic growth. But she also saw something at an elementary school that startled her: There were far more boys in the classrooms than girls. After months of research, she discovered a wide gap in the ratio [...]
Sky gazers who weren’t able to see a spectacular lunar eclipse can now see it in its entirety in one minute. Print PDF This post was submitted by CNN/ IM.
Tough new state immigration laws are striking fear in the hearts of illegal immigrants with American-born children. “I worry about my children,” says one father of two young kids in Carrollton, Georgia. He didn’t want to give his name, because he has no legal right to reside in the United States. “My kids were born [...]
This month, NPR is examining the many ways China is expanding its reach in the world — through investments, infrastructure, military power and more. After a generation of absorbing foreign capital and technology, China is now beginning to export them. It has found the export of infrastructure especially profitable, both economically and politically. China is [...]
By the time Mike Moore finishes school and starts his career as a doctor, he’ll be in his 50s. As a second-year medical student at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, Moore listens to lectures from younger professors and sits with classmates who are old enough to be his kids. “I kinda stick out a [...]
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde stretched her lead in the race for the IMF’s top job on Sunday when Indonesia became the first big developing economy to back her publicly. An 11th-hour challenge from Israel’s Stanley Fischer, announced on Saturday, seemed to be a symbolic move and the country’s finance minister acknowledged it was a [...]
With job growth slowing and President Obama’s poll numbers dropping, the White House is trying to stage an intervention. All week long, the administration took pains to show that the economy remains the president’s top concern and that he is doing everything possible to bring it back. On Thursday, the White House gave the press [...]
Although Mark Twain once said there are “lies, damn lies and statistics,” when it comes to U.S. taxes, statistics can tell the truth. It’s been a decade since the first round of Bush-era tax cuts and it’s clear that — even in the wake of a new round of cuts late last year — employment [...]
The number of minority-owned businesses in the U.S. jumped 45.5 percent from 2002 to 2007, more than double the 17.9 percent increase for U.S. businesses as a whole, according to Census data released Tuesday. Revenues of minority-owned firms increased 55 percent to $1.0 trillion over the five-year period, compared with a 33 percent increase for [...]
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