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President Obama will announce a $500 million partnership to spur innovation and create jobs in the manufacturing sector during a speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Friday.

A year ago, it seemed implausible, perhaps absurd, to think the U.S.'s two, major parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, would disagree so much that the United States would be at risk of defaulting on its bonds, due to a failure to raise the debt ceiling before the U.S. Government runs out of money in August. Now, incredibly, it appears a U.S. default is possible.

In an article posted in the editorial of Rolling Stone magazine, Al Gore has come down heavily on President Barack Obama's approach in avoiding a climate crisis. Article titled, Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?, says President Obama has thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change.

The 2011 Yemen unrest that started in February has intensified steadily with protestors demanding the immediate resignation of the current leadership, particularly of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Thirty years ago this July, the streets of urban Britain exploded with violence. While the UK had seen riots and street demonstrations throughout its long and tumultuous history, the disturbances of 1981 represented something new – for they largely involved the frustrations and anger of Britain’s large immigrant populations.

In the ailing economies of the Arab spring, analysts are finding that in both the Arab world economies and in nature, oil floats.

The Federal Reserve released a statement today after its June meeting, and ahead of Ben Bernanke's press conference Wednesday afternoon. The press conference will be only the second one in the Federal Reserve's history.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a formidable challenge this afternoon when he addresses the economic and investment community post the 2-day FOMC meeting

The evidence of double-dip recession in the US economy is growing, with the latest indicators reflecting deteriorated economic conditions not seen in the past three decades.

In a reflection of how the British workforce’s skills might not match up with the requirements of available work, May figures from the Department and Work and Pensions (DWP) indicated that 10,000 jobs remained unfilled over the past three months or more at Jobcentre Plus, despite a rise in the number of people filing for unemployment insurance benefits.

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Today Tunis held a trial-in-absentia for Ben Ali, still exiled in Saudi Arabia.

Hard-pressed for liquidity, Tunisia's interim government, along with Cherif, are ready to shock Europe-- once the primary market for Tunisian tourism-- into returning to its sun-kissed Mediterranean beaches.

Silicon Valley opened more tech job positions in May, which helped lower the unemployment rate in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) reported Friday.

Stephanie Caprini traveled to Athens, Greece just days before the recent riots. Upon returning to the States, she regrets that she lacked the cultural awareness that it takes to be present in a city that she now understands she was merely passing through.

A 'Global Revolution' may come to your city this weekend as citizens of every nation are asked to 'Take to the Square' on Sunday, June 19.

His unemployment status may be only a day old, but that hasn't stopped former congressman Anthony Weiner from getting job offers. Shortly before announcing his resignation from office, Weiner received an offer straight from Hollywood. Washington might not condone sex scandal, but Hollywood certainly does.

As the international community prepares to deploy aid for Egypt and Tunisia's ailing economies, it faces the daunting question of how to do so without perpetuating the endemic corruption and government monopolization that helped to spark the Arab Spring.

Amnesty International issued a statement yesterday, calling on Saudi authorities to stop treating women as second-class citizens and open the Kingdom's roads to women drivers.

Saudi women took to the streets today to contest a fatwa banning women from driving. International media reported that there was none of the expected retaliation from Saudi police forces, expected by many analysts to blow the situation up into something more befitting an Arab nation in the Jasmine era.

Destiny Mathis, a surgical technologist and mother of three, decided to sell a hand written letter that she received from President Obama.