Lisa Barron is Mint Press's New York Correspondent. She has worked for leading news organizations, including Time, Inc., CNN, CNBC and CBS News, in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East as well as in the United States. She has won two Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association and a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for her work in Iraq, where she spent fourteen months covering the war for CBS News Radio, CBS Newspath and WCBS-TV. Contact Lisa at [email protected] Follow Lisa on Twitter at @LisaBarronMPN
(NEW YORK) MintPress – Wednesday’s air strike by […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress - Wednesday’s air strike by the IDF on a car carrying the commander of the Hamas military wing in Gaza shattered hopes that a truce mediated by Egypt on Tuesday could pull the two sides back from the brink of war. It came after five days of escalating Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli strikes at militant targets, and
In this Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012 photo, a monk walks past […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress – The U.S. may still be at war in Afghanistan and increasingly involved in hot spots in the Middle East and North Africa, but on his first overseas trip since re-election, President Barack Obama will be visiting Asia. His top national security team is already moving ahead with the administration’s so-called strategic “pivot”
选举一周后，以及上一次在华盛顿聚会七周后，共和党和民主党议员周二返回国会大厦，处理未完成的事务，其中最关键的是 […]
One week after the elections, and seven weeks after they last gathered in Washington, Republican and Democratic legislators returned to the Capitol on Tuesday to tackle unfinished business, the most critical of which is the impending double whammy of automatic tax increases and spending cuts. President Barack Obama and members of Congress have
In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, at YANA (You are […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress – If you go to Occupy Wall Street’s website these days, it’s all about Sandy. “We Got It,” screams a posting. Indeed, in the past two weeks, Occupiers have set up a massive do-it-yourself response to the hurricane, helping victims in some of the hardest hit areas of New York City, many of whom are still without power, heat
This photo taken Oct. 30, 2012, shows a utility crew wo […]
“There’s nothing more important than us getting this right." President Barack Obama on Hurricane Sandy relief efforts (NEW YORK) MintPress – Just six days before the general election, Obama took time out from his campaign to tour storm-ravaged areas of New Jersey with Gov. Chris Christie. But in neighboring New York, where more than 285,000
In this Thursday, March 11, 2010 file photo, Tammy Duck […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress – Veterans Day may not be until next week, but many of those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are already making their voices heard. A record high 42 new veterans ran for Congress this year — by far the most that the post-9/11 generation of veterans has seen in national elections since the start of the wars — and 16 of
In this Thursday, April 15, 2010, file photo, Sonia Joa […]
“The American people had a choice between two divergent views and they chose both of them. And the result of that is we're going to have a continued impasse on the budget." Scott Lilley, Center for American Progress (NEW YORK) MintPress - Indeed, President Obama's victory and the continuation of the status quo in both the House and Senate suggest
