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News from Colombia. Three More Trade Unionists Assassinated in Colombia Date: 4 September 2008. The total number of trade unionists assassinated this year ...
About the Project - The National Security Archive's Colombia Project seeks to identify and obtain the release of documents from secret government archives ...
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — As global markets plunged, President Bush on Monday said "it's going to take awhile" for the government's $700 billion financial rescue plan to bolster the troubled U.S....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ San Francisco's landmark universal health care program can continue to operate, after an appeals court ruled that it does not violate federal law.Tuesday's unanimous ruling by a t...
They are the stories we heard from our grandparents, the pictures we studied in history books — bread lines stretching around street corners, shantytowns sheltering the unemployed, small-town banks with darkened windows.
Wall Street aimed at preventing a credit crisis. On this vote, a "yes" vote was a vote to approve the package and a "no" vote was a vote against it. Voting "yes" were 3...
Software billionaire plans 2nd space station trip A Virginia space company says a software billionaire plans to become the first private traveler to make a second trip to space
AP - Russian tennis star Nikolay Davydenko was cleared by the ATP on Friday after a yearlong investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost to a low-ranked opponent.
With Hurricane Ike steaming into the Gulf of Mexico, Texas emergency officials Tuesday stood ready to order 1 million people evacuated from the impoverished Rio Grande Valley and tried to convince tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that they have less to fear from the Border Patrol than from the storm.
Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson said on Sunday that foreign banks will be able to
unload bad financial assets under a $700 billion U.S. proposal
aimed at restoring order during a devastating financial crisis.
No charges for most Tulane frat members Prosecutors are not pursuing criminal charges against seven Tulane University fraternity members accused of burning pledges with boiling water and pepper spray ...
A wealthy gold trader was charged Monday with paying one of his workers to arrange the stabbing death of the businessman's estranged wife, authorities said.
A car-sized rodent fossil was discovered by scientists in Uruguay making it the largest fossilized rodent species to date. AndrÃs Rinderknecht of the National Museum of Natural History and Anthropology and Ernesto Blanco of the Institute of Physics in Montevideo are credited with finding this fossil.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson turned to a familiar source when he picked a director for the government's $700 billion bailout program: his former Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs.
Hurricane Ike, a Category 4 storm, rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, leaving millions of people to wonder where it will eventually strike.
AP - Residents trying to get back to this hurricane-ravaged city Wednesday spent hours fuming in gridlocked traffic, only to be turned away at the bridge by officials worried that the crippled island can't accommodate that many people.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain predicts the resurrected financial bailout bill will pass the House, but says it is just a bandage and not a cure.
Melbourne, Sept 30 : American actress Demi Moore has filed a lawsuit in Melbourne against New Idea magazine for publishing pictures taken at a star-studded party she and Madonna had organised.
GREAT BEND, Kan. - A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home has won $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year.
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