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Private sector business activity in Europe and China declined sharply this month, and new claims for U.S. jobless benefits remained high,... 12 comments
A stop-gap spending plan to keep the government running through Nov. 18 failed in the House Wednesday by a 230-to-195 margin, as Democrat... 5 comments
There is a caveat, to be sure, but Gallup recently reported that by their calculations, the official unemployment rate could be headed be... 4 comments
A day after the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Proposition 8 – California's 2008 voter-approved ban on gay marriage – the b... 4 comments
Juergen Stark is not the kind of man who enjoys drawing attention to himself. But the euro-zone crisis pushed him over the edge. 3 comments
American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which t... 3 comments
Libya's new rulers declared the country freed from Muammar Gaddafi's 42 years of one-man rule, saying the "Pharaoh of the times" was in h... 3 comments
If this past Saturday’s snowstorm illustrates anything, it is the relatively fragile nature of the electric power grid and America’s reli... 3 comments
No one was hurt when a Boeing 767 flying from New York with some 230 people on board made an emergency landing at Warsaw's airport on Tue... 3 comments
Seventy-two girls graduated from the media mogul's Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa when its first graduation ceremony was he... 3 comments
Paparazzo, who made a citizen's arrest last week, is also cited on suspicion of stalking the Monster Garage star 2 comments
The United States is facing the “menace of red ink,” says Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, and the tough choices required for a solution will ... 2 comments
Two of America's best-known television comedians drew tens of thousands of people to a rally on Saturday that was part variety show, part... 3 comments
Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, a former right hand man to the reclusive, one-eyed leader of the Taliban, believes there is only one way to end a... 2 comments


