A key House Republican leader says U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to do more listening than talking when he huddles privately with lawmakers today at a retreat in Baltimore.
Obama wants to offer tax credits to companies that hire new workers, a plan that drew a cool reception from Congress last month despite a double-digit [...]
The world’s biggest economy chalked up annualized growth of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter, beating the expectations of Wall Street analysts, and marking its best performance since 2003.
However, the figures from the Commerce Department in Washington D.C. also showed that the US economy contracted 2.4 percent in 2009, its worst performance since just after [...]
Just a day after London’s summit on Afghanistan, gunmen wearing suicide vests occupied the unfinished hotel yards from the governors’ offices and around two miles from the headquarters of British military and aid efforts in Afghanistan.
British helicopters and troops supported Afghan forces as they fought for hours. The battle came the day after international agreement [...]
Plans to fly injured nationals from quake-stricken Haiti to Central Florida and other parts of the state were suspended by federal officials this week until arrangements are made for the evacuees’ continued support.
The situation “came to a head” Wednesday night, when the state officially requested that federal officials not send any more medical flights to [...]
Washington (CNN) — The White House is considering moving the site of the September 11 attack trial from Manhattan if the Justice Department sees fit, senior administration officials said Friday.
“Conversations have occurred within the administration to discuss contingency options should the possibility of a trial in Lower Manhattan be foreclosed upon by Congress or locally,” [...]
A new message said to be from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has blamed global warming on the US and other big industrial nations.
The audio tape, broadcast on al-Jazeera TV, urges a boycott of the US dollar “to free humankind from slavery”.
It comes days after another tape said to be from Bin Laden was released, [...]
Computerworld - Apple Inc. on Monday invited journalists to a Jan. 27 press event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco — a move sure to fuel growing speculation about the prospect of an Apple tablet.
The invitation to the event, which begins at 10 a.m. Pacific time, offers no clues [...]
The U.S. military’s surge in Afghanistan could counter a resurgent Taliban and pave the way for a political deal that could end the war, Nato’s commander in the country said today, before a flurry of diplomatic activity to find a way out of the eight-year conflict.
The comments by Gen. Stanley McChrystal indicate that Thursday’s international [...]
The final chapter of Brett Favre’s 20-year career may have been written. And it’s a fairy tale, all right.
But instead of it being about Favre courageously re-entering the game on a bum ankle, this tome’s protagonist is not one person or even a single team.
It’s an entire city.
Rejoice, New Orleans. Four-and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina [...]
Two Britons were on board an Ethiopian Airlines plane which crashed shortly after take-off from the Lebanese capital Beirut, it has been confirmed.
The Boeing 737 bound for Addis Ababa in Ethiopia fell into the Mediterranean in a ball of fire with 90 people on board.
The Foreign Office said one British national and one with dual [...]
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