By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer – 42 mins ago
VIENNA – Iran pressed ahead Monday with plans that will increase its ability to make nuclear weapons as it formally informed the U.N. nuclear agency of its int...
In a move that will further irritate his Democratic critics, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced on Monday evening that he would not just oppose but also help filibuster President Barack Obama's nominee to a key labor relations agency
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported.
The 28-year-old man, identified as Evan Muncie, was found i...
WASHINGTON – A $20 cab ride to the airport skyrocketed to the "snow rate" of $100 in the nation's capital, and those travelers who could get to the airport or train station still had to haggle or wait in long lines to escape the snowbound Mid-Atlantic.
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- An examiner probing Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s 2008 failure filed under seal his report investigating whether banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Barclays Plc triggered or improperly benefitted from Lehman’s $639 billion bankruptcy.
LONDON -- Britain's inquiry into the Iraq war will seek meetings with former members of the Bush administration after taking evidence from Tony Blair and other key British official...
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Island — A federal judge says the court won't play an investigative role in the case of a woman being let out of prison to give the governor of the Northern Mariana Islands a massage.
U.S. District Judge Alex Munson on Monday granted th...
Lawmakers raised concerns today about proposed cost-cutting changes to how the Department of Human Services processes applications for key social services, including food stamps and MedQuest, which could trigger more than 200 layoffs of eligibility workers, a unio...
United Parcel Service Inc. said it plans to furlough at least 300 of its airline pilots as the world's largest package shipper, by volume, cited a continued need for belt-tightening amid a gradual economic recovery.
HAVANA — Cuba has declared a two-month amnesty for citizens to register unlicensed guns, and says those passing aptitude and psychological tests will be allowed to keep their weapons.
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Starting Feb. 12, Cubans will have the "exceptional and one-time only" ...
A series of 'secret' telephone calls between Jack Straw and Colin Powell in the months before the war against of Iraq today became the focus of the official inquiry into Britain’s decision to join the American invasion.
Mr Straw, the former Foreign Secretary, said he...
SHANGHAI — Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China’s sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77.
The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia H...
Tens of thousands of secret documents could contradict evidence given by key members of the Blair government to the Iraq inquiry, its chairman Sir John Chilcot has suggested.
Sir John disclosed that the panel was examining far more documents than previously tho...
WASHINGTON - The lawmakers now investigating Toyota's recall include a senator who was so eager to lure the Japanese automaker to his state that he tramped along through fields as its executives scouted plant sites, and a congresswoman who owes much of her wealth to a Toyota su...
France has agreed to sell Russia an advanced warship and is considering a request from Moscow for three others, French defence officials say. It would be the first arms deal of its kind between Russia and a Nato member.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy had approved the sale ...
Chinese police have shut down what they called the country's biggest hacker training Web site and arrested three people linked to the site, local media said Saturday.
Police in the central province of Hubei began probing Black Hawk Safety Net after finding some of its memb...
The new data we're analyzing portrays a rather ominous picture for the region, beginning tomorrow afternoon. Two areas of low pressure, one from the north and one from the south, will likely merge off the mid-Atlantic coast developing into a very powerful storm Tuesda...
Toyota dealers in five southeast states have pulled their commercials off ABC TV local affiliates, complaining about the coverage of Toyota safety problems by ABC News and its chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross.
The ad agency representing the 173 dealers told A...
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California is making a rare request in these hyper-partisan times: That a congressional panel look to heap some blame on the Bush administration.
Two days before a planned grilling on Toyota’s recall woes, Issa is pushing to have a roster of Bus...
Washington (CNN) - The bipartisan health care summit on Feb. 25 with President Barack Obama and congressional leaders will be televised, a senior administration official told CNN on Monday.
Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's appearance before the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville Saturday night gave plenty of red meat to the attendees, such as calling President Obama "a charismatic guy with a Teleprompter."
WASHINGTON -- Shock and awe. That's what survivors of the Clinton-era health care collapse are feeling as President Barack Obama's overhaul legislation wobbles in Congress.
Aides who shaped Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's 1990s plan to cover all Ame...
Man arrested after Detroit airport security breach
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) -- A portion of a terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was evacuated Monday after a man walked through a passenger screening checkpoint and refused to obey security officers, officials said.
In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P.
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: February 7, 2010
But this year Chase’s political action committee is sending the Democrats a pointed message. While it has contributed to some individual Democrats and st...
TOKYO — A body was found inside a wheel well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities Monday were trying to identify the man.
The body of the apparent stowaway was clad only in a long-sle...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Costa Ricans have elected their first woman president as the ruling party candidate won in a landslide after campaigning to continue free market policies in Central America's most stable nation.
With most of the votes from Sunday's election counted, Laura...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday.
People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of sodas did not have the same risk, the...
Greek unions said today that they would fight government austerity measures as they prepared for a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, a rebuke to the efforts of Prime Minister Papandreou to rally support for his budget-cutting reforms.
SEOUL (Reuters) – A senior Chinese envoy was in North Korea to prod the reclusive state back to stalled nuclear talks while the South sent a team across the border on Monday for talks to restart tourism projects halted due to political wrangling.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities during the next Iranian year, its atomic energy chief was quoted as saying, in comments likely to further raise tension with the West.
The statement by Ali Akbar Salehi on Sunday evening comes afte...
OSLO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past cooperation such as over the Indus or Mekong Rivers to help avert future conflicts, experts said on Sunday...
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