Monthly Archive: August 2007

Download MP3 Headlines (6:00) TONY SNOW TO RESIGN White House spokesperson Tony Snow has become the latest in a series of Bush Administration officials to resign. News of Snow’s plans to step down comes...

Download MP3 Headlines TEXAS COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE HOURS BEFORE EXECUTION An unexpected turn of events has saved Texas Death Row inmate Kenneth Foster from his scheduled execution tonight. Katie Heim reports from KPFT in...

Download MP3 Headlines(4:57) BUSH WANTS EVEN MORE MONEY FOR THE IRAQ WAR The Washington Post is reporting that President Bush is seeking additional funding for the war in Iraq to the tune of 50...

Download MP3 Headlines(5:02) SPLIT VERDICT FOR ABU GHRAIB OFFICER A military jury has returned a split verdict in the case of the only officer put on trial as part of the Abu Ghraib prisoner...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:13) SECTARIAN VIOLENCE TWICE AS DEADLY AS LAST YEAR New data shows that the level of violence in Iraq’s sectarian warfare has double since last year. The new statistics compiled by...

Download MP3 Headlines (7:01) KEY CASE BEFORE TERRORISM APPEALS COURT The nation’s new terrorism appeals court, The US Court of Military Commissions Review, heard its first case today. The outcome of this case will...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:32) PAKISTAN’S FORMER PRIME MINISTER CAN RETURN The exiled former prime minister of Pakistan has been given permission to return home. Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled today that Nawaz Sharif can once...

Download MP3   Headlines(4:34) CURFEW DECLARED IN BANGLADESH An indefinite curfew has been imposed on six cities in Bangladesh in response to 3 consecutive days of protests by university students in the capital. The...

Download MP3 Headlines(5:11) IRANIAN-AMERICAN ACADEMIC FREED ON BAIL Iranian-American academic, Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, has been freed on bail after 3 months in an Iranian jail. Esfandiari was detained in May while visiting her ailing...

Download MP3 Headlines(7:00) ABU GHRAIB OFFICER GOES TO TRIAL A military judge has dropped 2 charges that were pending against an army officer for abuses committed in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. Army Lt. Col....