Season 2009
2009/01/05 Headlines: Israeli Troops Invade Gaza; Death Toll Tops 530; US Blocks UN Call for Ceasefire in Gaza; Gaza Hospitals Struggle Without Power & Supplies; Israel Assassinates Hamas Official & His Family; International Protests Against Israel Continue; Commerce Pick Richardson Withdraws; Obama Stimulus to Include $300 Billion in Tax Cuts; Franken Takes 225-Vote Lead Over Coleman; Denver School Chief to Become Colorado Senator; Democrats Threaten to Block Burris from Taking Senate Seat; Coal Ash Disaster: Test Show Arsenic at 300x Normal Level in Water; Suicide Bomber Kills 40 in Baghdad; 5,300 Die in Drug-Related Killings in Mexico in 2008; Sri Lankan Military Take Rebel Capital; Cuba Marks 50th Anniversary of Revolution; AirTran Removes Muslim Family from Plane; Texas Activist Admits He Was FBI Informant; Anti-Apartheid Politician Helen Suzman, 91, Dies
2009/01/06 Headlines: Israeli Attack Intensifies; Tanks Enter Khan Yunis; Israel Bombs UN School, Three Killed; Doctor: Most Palestinian Casualties Are Civilians; Red Cross: Gaza Is a “Full-Blown" Humanitarian Crisis; Bush Refuses to Call for Ceasefire; Poll: Americans Divided Over Israeli Attack; Obama Defers to Bush on Gaza Crisis; Obama Taps Leon Panetta to Head CIA; Bush Critic Picked to Head Office of Legal Counsel; Obama: Future Will Be “Dramatically Worse” If Stimulus Plan Is Not Approved; Canvassing Board: Al Franken Won Minn. Recount; Coleman to Sue; US Opens Massive New Embassy in Iraq; Bush to Create World's Largest Marine Protection Area; JetBlue & TSA Officials Pay Raed Jarrar $240,000 Settlement; Video: Police Shoot Dead Unarmed Black Man on Oakland Train Platform
2009/01/07 Headlines: Israel Bombs UN School, 40 Killed; Palestinian Death Toll at 680; Israel Death Toll at 10; Obama: “Deep Concern” Over Loss of Civilian Lives in Gaza and Israel; Egypt Proposes Ceasefire; Venezuela Expels Israeli Ambassador; Five Blackwater Guards Plead Not Guilty in Nisoor Square Massacre Case; Senate Democrats Block Roland Burris from Taking Seat; Report: Blagojevich Met with SEIU Head Andy Stern in November; India: “Official Agencies in Pakistan” Involved in Mumbai Attacks; US Rejects Request to Let Haitians Temporarily Stay in US; Pentagon: PTSD Victims Not Eligible for Purple Heart; Russia Cuts Off Gas Exports to Much of Europe; Oakland Police Shooting Victim to Be Buried; Protesters Arrested at Senate Hart Office Building; Obama Offers Surgeon General Job to Sanjay Gupta
2009/01/08 Headlines: Palestinian Toll Passes 700; Around One-Third Children; School Bombing Toll Reaches 46 as Israel Retracts Claim of Militant Fire; Red Cross Condemns Israel for Blocking Access to Bombing Site; Lebanese Militants Fire at Northern Israel; Fighting Suspended for 3-Hour Aid Delivery; EU Backs Egyptian Ceasefire Proposal; UN General Assembly to Meet on Gaza Attack; Palestinian, Israeli Protesters Condemn Attack on Gaza; Jewish-Canadian Women Occupy Toronto Israeli Consulate; Senate Dems Reverse Opposition to Burris; Bush Hosts Obama, Ex-Presidents at White House; Officer in Oakland Transit Shooting Resigns; 15 Protesters Arrested
2009/01/09 Headlines: Israel Continues Gaza Attack as Security Council Calls for Ceasefire; Palestinian Toll Reaches 778; At Least 200 Children Killed; UN, Red Cross Suspend Relief Work After Lethal Israeli Attacks on Aid Convoys; WHO: 21 Palestinian Medical Workers Killed in Gaza Attack; UN: 30 Died in Israeli Shelling of Crowded Home; Vatican Official Compares Gaza to “Concentration Camp”; Carter: Israel Broke Gaza Truce; Protests Worldwide Decry Gaza Attack; Senate Affirms Support for Attack on Gaza; Kucinich Calls for Probe on US-Supplied Weapons to Israel; Report: Obama to Hold Talks with Hamas; Brennan Appointed Obama Counterterror Adviser; Congressional Report Faults Treasury on Bailout Oversight; 25 Gitmo Prisoners Force-Fed; 105 Arrested Protesting Oakland Police Shooting of Unarmed Man
2009/01/12 Headlines: Death Toll in Gaza Approaches 900; Israel Criticized for Using White Phosphorus in Gaza; Israel Admits Error in Bombing of UN School; Bush Rejected Israeli Request to Prepare for Iran Attack; Over 500,000 Lose Job in December; Official Unemployment Rate at 7.2%; Witness Against Torture Holds Fast Calling for Closing of Guantanamo; Obama: Guantanamo Will Not Be Closed in First 100 Days; Obama Suggests No Prosecution for Bush Admin Crimes; Obama Nominates Panetta and Blair; Bush Admits OKing Torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; Conyers Pushes for Nat'l Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties; Illinois House Votes to Impeach Blagojevich; Afghan Militants Attack Base in Pakistan; Son of Charles Taylor Sentenced to 97 Years for Torture; Lori Berenson Moved to New Jail Due to Complicated Pregnancy; Leonard Peltier to be Moved to New Prison; 10,000 Gallons of Slurry Spills Out at Coal Plant in Alabama; Group Campaigns to Ban Drivers from Using Cell Phones; “Waltz with Bashir” Wins Golden Globe
2009/01/13 Headlines: Abbas: Israel Is Aiming to “Wipe Out” Palestinians in Gaza; Red Cross: “There Is No Place Safe in Gaza for the Civilians”; UN Human Rights Council Condemns Israel; US Abstained from UN Vote After Olmert Called Bush; Israel Accused of Testing Experimental Weapons in Gaza; Israeli Soldier Jailed for Refusing to Fight in Gaza; Free Gaza Movement to Send More Boats with Aid to Gaza; Report: Obama to Issue Order to Close Guantanamo; 42 Prisoners at Guantanamo on Hunger Strike; Obama to Sign Pentagon Plan to Send 30,000 More Troops to Afghanistan; Obama Seeks Remaining $350 Billion of Financial Bailout; Judge Rules Madoff Can Stay in Penthouse Until Trial; Bush: “Not Having Weapons of Mass Destruction Was a Significant Disappointment”; Roland Burris to be Seated as New Illinois Senator; Julius Genachowski to Head FCC; Study: US Spends at Least $52 Billion/Year on Nuclear Weapons; Documents: US Officials Knew of Link Between Colombian Military & Death Squads