Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 5:55 pm
Update at 5:45 p.m. ET. 'All Options' On The Table
A White House official reiterated much of what was in the letter sent to Capitol Hill, but added that "all options were on the table in terms of our response."
The official said that reports of the use of chemical weapons in Aleppo in March was one of the incidents being examined.
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was also a writer and producer on The Sopranos for a time.
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Mad Men's sixth season, which premiered April 7, revolves around (from left) Henry Francis (Christopher Stanley), Bobby Draper (Mason Vale Cotton), Betty Francis (January Jones), Gene Draper (Evan and Ryder Londo), Sally Draper (Kiernan Shipka), Megan Draper (Jessica Pare) and Don Draper (Jon Hamm).
The sixth season of AMC's Mad Men, which premiered April 7, jumps forward in time a few months from where the fifth season concluded. The first episode of the season comes to a close on New Year's Day 1968. That date was designed to set the tone for the entire season.
That year, says Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, is, "as far as I can tell, in the top two or three worst years in U.S. history."
A barista serves coffee at a cafe in Naples, Italy. The Italian city's long-standing tradition of buying a cup for a less-fortunate stranger is now spreading across Europe.
Originally published on Fri April 26, 2013 11:30 am
Tough economic times and growing poverty in much of Europe are reviving a humble tradition that began some one-hundred years ago in the Italian city of Naples. It's called caffè sospeso — "suspended coffee": A customer pays in advance for a person who cannot afford a cup of coffee.
President Obama, former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on Thursday in Dallas, Texas. The Bush library, which is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, with more than 70 million pages of paper records, 43,000 artifacts, 200 million emails and four million photographs.
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Left to right, Former President George H.W. Bush, President Clinton, former President Gerald R. Ford, and former President Jimmy Carter with first ladies, left to right, Barbara Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Hilary Clinton, Betty Ford and Rosalyn Carter during a dinner in honor of the 200th Anniversary of the White House Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000 in Washington.
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Vice President Nixon, foreground, President Eisenhower, immediately behind, former President Truman, left, and former President Hoover, right, stand on the inauguration stand in front of the Capitol, January 20, 1953, during the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner" at Eisenhower's swearing-in ceremony.
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Outgoing President Harry Truman, at right, and new first lady Mamie Eisenhower, left, appear to be sharing a joke on presidential inauguration stand in Washington, Jan. 20, 1953, but ex-president Herbert Hoover, behind Truman, takes a serious view of the situation.
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President John F. Kennedy is joined by two former presidents during services at the grave of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden of the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, N.Y., on Nov. 10, 1962.
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Attending the 1961 funeral services for former House Speaker Sam Rayburn are President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman.
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This Oct. 10, 1981 photo released by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, shows former presidents Jimmy Carter, left,, Richard Nixon, center right, and Gerald Ford with then U.S. Chief of Protocol Leonore Annenberg aboard an Air Force jet carrying them to the funeral of Anwar al-Sadat.
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President George W. Bush, center, with President-elect Barack Obama, and former presidents, from left, George H.W. Bush, left, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, right, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
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First lady Michelle Obama, President Obama, former first lady Barbara Bush, former President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush arrive at the dedication for the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
We're going to switch gears now and tell you about a competition that is really about to take off - pun intended. We're talking about the nation's largest rocketry tournament, the Team America Rocketry Challenge.
If you think that making a model rocket is kids' stuff, listen to this: Teams must build a rocket that can fly as close to 800 feet as possible in about 45 seconds. The rockets have to carry two raw eggs into the air and bring them back safely. The top-ranked teams will compete in the national competition on May 11th.
The brutal rape of a five-year-old girl in India has caused public outcry there, and led to the arrest of two men. Host Michel Martin explores what the case says about how India handles sexual assault cases. She speaks with Anand Giridharadas, a columnist at The New York Times.
African-American men in Wisconsin are incarcerated at a rate that's nearly twice the national average, according to a new study. To find out what's behind the staggering numbers, host Michel Martin speaks with Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor, and Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.
And now the latest in our series Muses and Metaphor. We are celebrating National Poetry Month by hearing your poems that you've been sending us via Twitter. Today we hear from Sarah Jones of Seattle. She recently moved from Los Angeles with her husband and two sons and says her family made it just in time to see the cherry trees blossom. Here she is.
SWAT team members stand guard on the campus of Massachusetts General Hospital following the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
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Dr. Leana Wen speaks with Josh Kosowsky, clinical director of emergency medicine, in the emergency department at Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital on Aug. 14.
Originally published on Tue April 30, 2013 1:15 pm
I have a recurring nightmare where I am performing CPR on a patient who turns out to be my husband.
Last Monday, my nightmare nearly came true.
It was 2:50 p.m., and the Massachusetts General Hospital ER was filled to capacity.
In the section where I was working, my patients were critically ill, with strokes, heart attacks and overwhelming infections. Even the hallways were packed with patients receiving emergency treatments.
A call over the loudspeakers announced that there had been two explosions. Many people were injured. That's all we knew.
Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 12:16 pm
Google has agreed to modify the way it displays search results in Europe as part of a deal to end a probe by the EU's antitrust body. But rivals Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle will first have to sign off on the changes, reports say.
