Mar 12th, 2010 · The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and developer Larry Silverstein face a court-ordered deadline Friday to agree to a new schedule to rebuild the site of the World Trade Center. New Yorker critic Paul Goldberger says they disagree on who will pay for the project.
Mar 3rd, 2010 · The Obama administration has missed its own deadline for mapping out its policy on nuclear weapons. But however the Nuclear Posture Review emerges, it will likely call for a deep reduction in the U.S. arsenal.
Feb 28th, 2010 · We're closing in on the deadline for this round of our Three-Minute Fiction contest: The clock stops ticking at 11:59 p.m. Sunday night.
Feb 2nd, 2010 · President Obama's proposed three-year freeze on most non-defense programs in the budget has spared most of the popular health programs at the Department of Health and Human Services. But with the huge health overhaul still on hold and a deadline at the end of February to fix Medicare payments for doctors, Congress can't afford to ignore health for very long.
Feb 2nd, 2010 · President Obama's proposed three-year freeze on most non-defense programs in the budget has spared most of the popular health programs at the Department of Health and Human Services. But with the huge health overhaul still on hold and a deadline at the end of February to fix Medicare payments for doctors, Congress can't afford to ignore health for very long.
Feb 2nd, 2010 · In Obama's first week in office, he vowed to close Guantanamo within a year. That deadline has passed. Now with Congress pushing against trying alleged Sept. 11 plotters in civilian courts and the administration having trouble finding countries willing to accept detainees, it looks like the prison may not close anytime soon.
Jan 28th, 2010 · Testimony in the trial challenging California's Proposition 8 has ended. It's the first trial challenging a state gay marriage ban in a federal court. The judge who heard the case, without a jury, said he will take time to review the evidence before allowing closing arguments, probably in March or April. He has no deadline for reaching a decision.
Jan 22nd, 2010 · A new report says NASA will not meet a 2020 deadline to detect big asteroids and comets that could potentially pose a risk to Earth. It suggests new strategies to find potential threats but says they'll require more funding than the annual $4 million currently spent on such searches.