Mar 12th, 2010 · Bourne Identity director Paul Greengrass and leading man Matt Damon have re-teamed for Green Zone, a fictionalized account of the U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction in the first year of the Iraq occupation. Film critic David Edelstein reviews the political thriller.
Mar 11th, 2010 · Actress Amy Ryan stars in the new Paul Greengrass thriller Green Zone as a journalist investigating the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. She has also played a port authority police officer in the HBO series The Wire and Michael Scott's girlfriend on The Office.
Mar 2nd, 2010 · The deaths of 40 retirees vacationing at the seaside town of Pelluhue underscores the destruction wrought by Saturday's pre-dawn 8.8-magnitude quake and the tsunami that ravaged communities along Chile's south-central coast, where destruction is widespread and food scarce.
Mar 1st, 2010 · Haiti and Chile experienced massive earthquakes with distinctly different effects. A look at factors that determined the destruction, the death toll and recovery.
Feb 28th, 2010 · Earthquakes and other natural disasters are deadlier and more destructive than they were a couple of hundred years ago. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Roger Bilham, a seismologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder to find out why.
Feb 22nd, 2010 · The Colorado shuttle driver accused of training with al-Qaida and plotting to bomb transportation targets in New York pleaded guilty Monday guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. The FBI arrested Najibullah Zazi last fall and said he was planning an attack on the New York subway.
Feb 1st, 2010 · Several high profile celebrities have offered their voices and their dollars following the devastating earthquake in Haiti. But there are countless others — ordinary folks — who have stepped up, donating their time and innovative ideas to raise money and awareness. Haiti natives Yves Louis-Jacques, a marketing and brand strategist living in New York; Miami-based Cassandra Theramene, founder of the philanthropic group Essence of a Haitian Woman, and college student Roberte Exantus, president of the Haitian Student Association at Howard University in Washington, D.C, share stories of loss, hope and devotion to their country in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Jan 29th, 2010 · Former Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged Friday that Saddam Hussein didn't become a bigger threat after Sept. 11, but said his perception of the risk posed by terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction was dramatically changed by the attacks. Blair told Britain's Iraq Inquiry that his contentious decision to back the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was inspired by fears of another, even deadlier, terror attack.