What Happened in 2011

White House Announces New Sanctions on Libya

The White House announced new sanctions on Libya's government and temporarily abandoned its embassy in Tripoli today, as a final flight carrying... Read more

President Obama Calls for Gadhafi to Step Down

President Obama for the first time called for Moammar Gaddafi to resign Saturday, saying the Libyan leader "has lost the legitimacy to rule and... Read more

UN Security Council Imposes Sanctions on Gadhafi

The UN Security Council moved as a powerful bloc today to try to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's deadly crackdown on protesters, slapping... Read more

Three Killed in Tunisia During Clashes Between Protestors and Security Forces

Tunisia's Interior Ministry says three people were killed Saturday in clashes between security forces and anti-government demonstrators. The... Read more

Bahrain's King Shuffles Cabinet in Response to Protests

King Hamad named on Saturday new ministers of cabinet affairs, energy, health and housing. All had previously held senior government positions.... Read more

Wisconsin Governor Walker Gives Absent Democratic Legislators 24 Hours to Return for Budget Vote

Gov. Scott Walker has a message for the 14 Democrats who fled Wisconsin: Come back by tomorrow and vote on the controversial budget bill, or "the... Read more

Yemeni President Saleh Proposes Unity Government

Yemen's president offered Monday to form a unity government with opponents who want him out of office — provided protests against him stop.... Read more

Libyan Rebels Hold City of Zawiya after 6-Hour Battle

In a long night of fighting, Libyan rebels armed with tanks, machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns have managed to hold on to Zawiya, the city they... Read more

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Reveals Deep Spending Cuts With New Budget

Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a budget plan Tuesday that balances the Wisconsin's budget by cutting more than $1 billion in state aid to schools and... Read more

Ohio Senate Approves Anti-Union Bill

The movement to restrict the power of public sector unions chalked up a legislative win today in Ohio. A measure that would ban strikes and greatly... Read more

Gadhafi Loyalists Go on Offensive Against Rebels

In a day of violent reversals, this was the old regime’s ultimate show of bravado: Flag-waving supporters of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi drove... Read more

Grand Jury Indicts Jared Loughner on 46 News Charges in Giffords Shooting

Jared Lee Loughner was charged on new counts that include the murders of US District Judge John Roll and Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman, according to... Read more

Gadhafi's Forces Launch Air Strikes Against Rebels in Oil-Rich Town of Brega

Libyan air forces rained at least three airstrikes down on Brega today, a day after rebel forces drove Gadhafi loyalists out of the major oil town.... Read more

Protesters Leave Madison

The final group of pro-union protesters left Wisconsin's Capitol peacefully late Thursday night, after a judge ordered their removal. The judge... Read more

Wisconsin Senate Orders Arrest of Absent Democrats

This is way more serious than yanking their photocopying privileges. Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate today declared the missing Democrats in... Read more

President Obama Orders Planes Sent to Evacuate Libyan Refugees

The US and the entire world continues to be outraged by the appalling violence against the Libyan people. Moammar Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy... Read more

Gadhafi Hits Mass Protests with Tear Gas

State television said the town of Zawiya was recaptured by pro-Gadhafi forces, while rebels said they’d taken control of the airport at Ras Linuf,... Read more

Wisconsin Governor Walker Begins Layoff Process for State Workers

Some 1,500 Wisconsin residents may not have slept so well last night. Gov. Scott Walker yesterday set the ball in motion to lay off a horde of... Read more

RIFT Launches

Rift is a MMORPG set in a fantasy world called Telara, which is the focal point of several different elemental Planes. These Planes are realities... Read more

Documentarist Michael Moore Speaks at Protests in Front of Wisconsin's State Capitol

"America is not broke ... Wisconsin is not broke," said liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to more than 30,000 cheering protesters in Wisconsin... Read more

Security Forces Open Fire on Protesters in Yemen

Security forces in Yemen have opened fire on peaceful protesters in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, wounding at least 75 people demonstrating for an... Read more

International Women's Day Rally in Cairo Marred by Rival Protests

“We fought side by side with men during the revolution, and now we’re not represented,” said Passat Rabie, a young woman who came with friends,... Read more

Gadhafi Forces Launch Fierce Counterattack

Moammar Gadhafi’s forces launched at least three new airstrikes against Libyan rebels today near the oil port of Ras Lanouf, and one witness says... Read more

Yemeni Doctors Accuse Government of Violating International Law with Use of Nerve Gas on Protesters

Doctors from the scene of violent anti-government protests in Yemen's capital Tuesday night said that what was originally thought to be tear gas... Read more

Wisconsin Senate Passes Anti-Union Bill

Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted today to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to... Read more