at the vanguard in many cases of accepting alternative forms of lifestyle. Hey let's rouse a slumbering rodent and try to predict the next few weeks of weather. Awake young vermins. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce to you, Punxsutawney Phil! Unb
Well, it's helped us, but we're a little different in the sense of the amounts of money that we have received thus far. Ours has been about $22 million. We received money basically in categorical grants. We got CDDB or community development funds, we
PHILLIPS: All right. Let's talk about how your stimulus money is helping or not helping across America. We're going to the local level here, talking with three mayors. The mayor of Laredo, Texas, Raul Salinas, also Mayor James Baker of Wilmington, De
by ljdsoft AZUZ: After the State of the Union, presidents will often travel around the country promoting some of the ideas and programs that they announced during the speech. President Obama hit the road by train. He's pushing for a nationwide, high-
It is the most awesome day of the week; we're glad you're spending part of it with CNN Student News. Talking you through today's commercial-free headlines, I'm Carl Azuz. 70 minutes, more than 7,000 words: It all adds up to President Obama's first, o
CAMPBELL BROWN at 8:00 p.m., you can find out why some residents in Montana think that their state has made a double fault with their tax dollars. I bet Jeffrey Miron would weigh in on that. And then AC 360 investigates why stimulus money is going to
So, the debt limit is how much money a country can borrow. Yesterday, the Senate voted to increase it. This doesn't mean the debt limit is definitely going up, though; it still has to get through the House of Representatives. But let's look at the nu
The Toyota tribulations. If you own one, you almost have to be wondering, what the heck is next? Crisis of confidence clouded by confusion. Now the Prius has a huge problem. Toyota says that a glitch in the electronic brakes could cause a delay when
Boy, just when you thought the job situation couldn't get any worse, just moments ago, word of an unexpected jump in first-time jobless claims. The Labor Department says new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 8,000 to 480,000. That's the fourt
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? It's a debate that raged among parents and one that's divided the autism community. Now one journal that put out a paper showing an autism vaccine link is retracting it. CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth C
Big funding, little results. Bosses playing games. Workers filing complaints, and the Air Marshals, well, the service was established to look after you, but apparently, it can't even take care of itself. CNN's Drew Griffin investigates. Kyra, the wid
And nearly half a million homeless people are still living in those makeshift settlements in Haiti today. Only a tinny tiny percentage have made it to organize tent cities. The rest are making do with whatever building materials they can find hidden
How the heck do you miss nearly a million jobs during the recession? Boom, just vanished. Apparently our experts did. Just minutes ago a new measure of just how bad the economy is, and it isn't good, folks. CNN's Christine Romans in New York. So how
GRIFFIN: Then there is the story of this woman, a girlfriend now wife of an Air Marshal who complained to the Department of Homeland Security she was followed, photographed, and investigated by the Air Marshals, all because she says her then-boyfrien
AZUZ: It's the kind of thing you see all the time in movies and comic books. But technology that seems similar to telekinesis is a reality. And the company that created it thinks it could change the way we live. Brooke Baldwin and her brain demonstra
First Up: Threat Assessment AZUZ: First up, the heads of several U.S. intelligence agencies have the same outlook on the country's security. During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, they said that in the next three to six months, it is certain that there
full main engine start... two... one... zero... booster ignition.... and liftoff of Shuttle Endeavour with NASA's final space station crew compartment to bring the bay window view to our celestial backyard. AZUZ: The second time was the charm for NAS
LAHOOD: What I said in there was obviously a misstatement. I -- what I meant to say, and what I thought I said was, if you own one of these cars or if you're in doubt take it to the dealer, and they're going to fix it. OK? Is that good enough for eve
I think it all depends on the student, obviously. We like Senator Buttars raising the issue of the significance of the 12th year of high school. In Utah, we're finding however that the 12th year really needs to be intensified. We need to have full fo
What makes Capital Prep different from many of the schools that the students are attending now is that we're a year-round school. We go to school beginning in July and we end in June. We have very high expectations of our students, but more important