World Cluster Bomb Ban Excludes U.S.

American Voices

June 5, 2008 | ISSUE 44•23

The United States has opted out of a worldwide treaty that would ban cluster bombs. What do you think?

America is merely carrying on its rich heritage of hunting with cluster bombs.

Priyank Mehta
Knife Sharpener
Haven't they learned that if they want the U.S. to sign something they can't go calling it a 'worldwide treaty'? They should have called it 'Resolution In Favor Of Ice Cream' or something.

Eddie Stone
Flooring Installer
I can see both sides here, but that's because my mind has been opened by Buddhism.

Natalya Romanov
Fruit Seller

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.