As Border Patrol agents gave chase, a third truck appeared on the Mexican side and gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire over the fence at the agents.
Under Mr. Bush, punctuality was a virtue. Meetings started early — the former president once locked Secretary of State Colin L. Powell out of the Cabinet Room when Mr. Powell showed up a few minutes late
The battle in Washington is not between liberals and conservatives; it is between the Union and the South.
…in modern recessions, unemployment keeps rising long after the NBER has determined, based on things like industrial production, that the recession proper is over.
The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.
Economists worry that the economy could now be losing as many as 600,000 jobs a month
Brain damage is a common and potentially severe consequence of long-term, heavy alcohol consumption. Even mild-to-moderate drinking can adversely affect cognitive functioning.
Just because they come out at night and throw down four or five bodies in the square does not mean that militants control anything,” he said.