Monthly Archive: September 2007

Download MP3 Headlines SENATE PASSES S-CHIP BY VETO-PROOF MAJORITY In a major rebuke to the president, the US Senate has passed a measure to increase federal funding for healthcare coverage to low-income children. The...

Download MP3 Headlines ANOTHER SECTION OF PATRIOT ACT STRUCK DOWN A federal judge in Portland has struck down the sneak and peek provision of the USA Patriot Act on constitutional grounds. Eoin Bastable has...

Download MP3 Headlines(4:50) INTENSE FIGHTING IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN US and Afghan forces have reportedly killed more than 165 suspected Taliban militants in separate clashes in two provinces in Southern Afghanistan. The US military claims...

Download MP3 Headlines(4:58) SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON LETHAL INJECTIONS The Supreme Court has announced that it will rule on whether lethal injections violate the constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The issue...

Download MP3 Headlines(5:35) UAW CALLS NATIONAL STRIKE AGAINST GM The United Auto Workers began a nationwide strike today after contract negotiations with General Motors broke down. The UAW contract with Gm expired on September...

Download MP3 Headlines (7.50) Funeral For Slain Lebanese Lawmaker Thousands of Lebanese attended the funeral of a slain Christian Parliamentarian who was assassinated earlier this week. It is the third assassination of a pro-government...

Download MP3 Headlines BUSH THREATENS SHOWDOWN ON CHILD HEALTHCARE President Bush has once again threatened to veto any attempts to expand federally funded healthcare for low income children. Both the House and the Senate...

Download MP3 Headlines(4:56) CAR BOMB KILLS LEBANESE MP A powerful car bomb killed a Lebanese Parliamentarian in a Christian suburb of Beirut today, adding to tensions just one week before heated Presidential elections. Jackson...

Download MP3 Headlines(5:35) RATCHETING UP THE IRAN RHETORIC Rhetoric around Iran’s nuclear program has been building up ahead of this week’s meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Russia has jumped into the diplomatic...

Download MP3 Headlines(6:40) IRAQ TO BAN BLACKWATER CONTRACTORS Iraq’s Interior Minister today ordered the cancellation of the Iraqi operating license of the Blackwater security firm. The move comes in response to a deadly shootout...