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It was on this day in 1862 when president abraham lincoln issued the preliminary emancipation proclamation declaring all slaves would be free as of january 1st, 1863. as the president explains his jobs bill to ohio voters today, one observer says the quick rollout of the stimulus plan and a week later the debt plan to pay for it may confuse his message. whos that observer? former president bill clinton who spoke to the conservative website news max. >> the speech that the president gave to con...

officer macphail rushed to the scene to investigate, was shot and killed n two years later in 1991, troy davis was convicted for that murder based on eyewitness testimony but since davis trial, seven of the nine witnesses against him either recanted or changed their testimony raising doubts that have gone global. we have the scene outside the supreme court that weve been watching, where protesters have also gathered. joining us now is senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and b.j. bernst...

This. i think nigeria is one and the word is france is up in the air. i think theres a few of them out there and the president is saying can we put off this whole vote? and that is the delay of game is also something youre interested in or they can lobby for the so-called vatican status where you become a nation, observer but heres what im disappointed in the presidents address today. hes not going to address iran and nukes reportedly hes not going to address syria, assad butchering his own peop...

released from a prison there, but were also hearing theyre still in the prison. our sources in iran say they dont actually know if they left evin prison yet. imany official a a ay officials make sure they are free. released a statement by press tv that their detention sentence has been commuted and they have been released on bail, a lot of speculation is once they are released, they will head to iman. . the reason there is that speculation is it played a part in securing the release of...

that we seek. the question is, how do we reach that goal? and i am convinced that there is no shortcut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades. peace is hard work. peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the united nations. if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now. ultimately, it is the israelis and the palestinians who must live side by side. >> immediately after that speech, the president met with israeli prime minister benjamin net...

The palestinian authority president. so mr. obama sitting down with his palestinian counterpart could be an effort to try and get a breakthrough to either potentially pull back or maybe change some of the language or at least the steps before this happens on friday. but shep, publicly, at least, the palestinian authority president has continually said that he intends to submit this proposal to the united nations in this letter on friday for such a vote. well have to see how it all plays out, whe...

moral failure. the judge threw out the sexual assault case against him but he remained adamant that it did not include any attempt to rape. "world business today" starts right now. >> good morning from cnn london, im charles hodson. >> im manesha tank. the top stories this monday, september 19th. markets are gripped by greek contagion fears as tim geithner tells europe to do more to curb the crisis. >> dominique strauss-kahn said he made a moral error. could china be facing a banking...

about this for years and under the presidents plan anyone making more than $1 million a year would paper the same percentage of taxes at the middle class. boy, it does not sit well with republicans. >> when you pick one area of the economy and say were going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, thats class warfare. >> warren buffett has been honest and others i know who have havent fortunate in life and wealthy say, for goodness sake, raise my taxes if thats g...

that plane to go down, obviously the focus is on the tail of that aircraft, almost immediately after the crash, photographic evidence emerged that a piece of that tail came off during mid-flight and thats something that ntsb confirmed during their news conferences and when crews went to take a look at the debris field, they actually found a chunk of the airplane and ntsb officials talked about that yesterday. take a look. >> it just happened so fast, a split-second event. you think, is...

malones is the countrys only village post office. the postal service says they expect to save about $42,000 a year here and may turn as many as 3,700 existing locations into village post offices. but with a looming debt of $9 billion, saving the u.s. mail service is going to take more than a village post office. patrick oppman, cnn, malone, washington. the news continues now with randi kaye. this is the bill, says president obama. the question now is whether the american jobs act w...