WASHINGTON, DC, July 29, 2010 (ENS) - The Environmental Protection Agency today turned back 10 petitions from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Commonwea...
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Soldier accused of leaking secrets flown to U.S.
Bradley Manning was flown Thursday to Quantico Marine Base where he will be held while awaiting trial
By Associated Press
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The Army intelligence specialist charged with leaki...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Police fired weapons into the air Friday to disperse a crowd of angry Afghans who shouted "Death to America" after an SUV was involved in a traffic accident that killed four Afgha...
Mark Miller, whose environmental clean-up firm has hired nearly 1,500 workers in the Gulf Coast in the past month, takes issue with the term "spillionaire" -- those who are cleaning up from the oil cleanup. "There are probably companies or people who became 'oil spill' exper...
July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Greek truck drivers voted at a meeting today to defy a government order and continue their five-day strike, which has caused nationwide fuel shortages, after talks with Transport Ministry officials ended in deadlock.
WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents as the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the leaks, bringing a soldier charged with handing over classified video back to the U.S. for trial.
REUTERS - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday he wanted to strip French nationality from anyone of foreign origin who threatened the life of a police officer, in a crackdown after riots shook two French towns this month.
Speaking in Grenoble, where street violence erupt...
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Two-thirds of Pakistanis oppose the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and roughly six in 10 think the U.S. is an enemy, according to a new survey.
The data, released today by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center in Washington, underscores the challenges f...
WASHINGTON — The recovery lost momentum in the second quarter as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment.
3 Americans killed in Afghanistan, making July deadliest month of war for U.S.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces i...
Reid plans showdown with GOP on funds for education, Medicaid
By Alexander Bolton - 07/29/10 07:04 PM ET
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will force Republicans to vote next week on a $26.1 billion package of education funding and Medicaid assistance to state...
The Commerce Department, in revisions issued Friday, estimates the economy shrank 2.6 percent last year - the steepest drop since 1946. That's worse than the 2.4 percent decline originally estimated.
The revisions in gross domestic product, or GDP, now show zero growth in 2008....
BERLIN – Theo Albrecht, the secretive co-founder of Germany's worldwide discount supermarket chain Aldi, a co-owner of Trader Joe's in the United States and one of Europe's richest men, has died at age 88. The retail machine that Albrecht built with his brother Karl has won over G...
SRINAGAR, India — Paramilitary soldiers fired on hundreds of demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing two men and wounding at least 12 others, police said as protests against Indian rule spread across the disputed region.
You didn't think banks would forgo billions of dollars in overdraft fee revenue without a fight, did you?
As an Aug. 15 congressionally imposed deadline approaches to stop collecting fees for most debit card-related overdrafts, banks are blanketing account holders wi...
Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2010 (Advance Estimate)
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the second quarter of 201...
Posted on Friday, 07.30.10
Murders stir trouble in Panama paradise
Panamanian authorities suspect two people on a laid-back archipelago may have killed their neighbors for their property. The fugitives have been caught and brought back to Panama.
BY ASIA SHERMAN
Sp...
Exclusive: The Taliban has issued a chilling warning to Afghans, alleged in secret US military files leaked on the internet to have worked as informers for the Nato-led coalition, telling Channel 4 News "US spies" will be hunted down and punished.
A US army private under investigation for allegedly leaking classified material to the Wikileaks website has been transferred from Kuwait to the US amid growing White House and Pentagon anger over this week's revelations about the war in Afghanistan.
It may be one of the more audacious terrorist plots to be hatched in Afghanistan, but it was certainly not the most original. The same al-Qaida masterminds behind 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington planned to commit a similar attack in the capital of the country tha...
When U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled on Wednesday that key provisions of Arizona's new anti-immigration law were unconstitutional, she could have also declared them unnecessary. That is, if the main ...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates pledged to help the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs probe how insurers reap profits from death benefits retained for the families of deceased military personnel.
“I will be very interested in the outcome of the VA investigation,” Gates ...
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he timed it for the day SB 1070 takes effect to send a message: that nothing is changing despite a court ruling on the law.
Reporting from Phoenix —
With most of Arizona's new immigration law blocked by a judge, controversial She...
With 267 people being born every minute and 108 dying, the world’s population will top seven billion next year, a research group projects, while the ratio of working-age adults to support the elderly in developed countries declines precipitously because of lower bi...
In the 40-page report, the committee said it substantiated the major charges that had been hanging over Mr. Rangel for two years: that he improperly used his office to solicit donations for a school to be named in his honor; failed to pay taxes on and report rental income fr...
(Washington DC) - Six months after President Porfirio Lobo took office, Honduras has made little progress toward addressing the serious human rights abuses since the 2009 coup, Human Rights Watch said today. Threats and attacks against journalists and the political...
As part of its attempt to boost Afghanistan's economic and political development, the United States is paying thousands of Afghan contractors and subcontractors to perform much of the work that supports U.S. efforts there. But the "Afghan First" program could be a...
BERLIN — The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect was involved in the entire process of killing Jews at the Belzec death camp: from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to throwing corpses into mass graves, a German court said Thursday.
Citigroup Inc. is paying $75 million to settle civil charges that it misled investors about its potential losses from subprime mortgages as the housing bust hit in 2007.
It said the company repeatedly made misleading statements in calls with analysts and regulatory filings abou...
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Arab leaders gave the Palestinian Authority on Thursday the green light for direct talks with Israel, a move that prompted the Israeli prime minister to say his country is ready for the face-to-face talks as well.
TWISP — The mother wolf of the state’s first confirmed pack of wolves in 70 years is missing.
The Wenatchee World reports that biologists don’t know where the alpha female wolf has gone and they fear that, at worst, someone killed her. Although there’s also the p...
WASHINGTON — A bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust fell short in the House on Thursday, raising the possibility that the bulk of compensation for the ill will come from a legal settlement hammered out in the federal...
Senate Republicans blocked a $30-billion plan to help community banks boost lending to small businesses, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's election-year battle to reduce unemployment.
Tempers ran high as Democratic leaders failed to muster the 60 votes needed to a...
Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- The legal battle over a tough Arizona immigration law entered its next stage Thursday when Gov. Jan Brewer filed an expedited appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The appeal asks the court to lift a preliminary injunction granted by a feder...
WASHINGTON — A new Army report has found that inattention to rising rates of drug abuse and criminal activity among soldiers and not repeat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan is responsible for the record-high levels of suicide among troops.
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