Insight: Falling home prices drag new buyers under water |
- Insight: Falling home prices drag new buyers under water
- U.S. on guard for attacks ahead of bin Laden anniversary
- Bird strikes on airliners targeted in Congress, at airports
- "Joke" to "Hijack Plane, Kill Obama" gets Utah man in trouble
- Rash on passenger causes quarantine of plane in Chicago
- U.S. ban sought on cell phone use while driving
- Ohio struggles to draft tougher law after exotic animals' escape
- As Supreme Court mulls healthcare, rumors fly
- Bosnian-born U.S. citizen "ready" to kill in New York plot: prosecutor
- Texas executes man for 2002 murder
- German analysts say new North Korea missiles are fakes
- Authorities investigate health issue in plane at Chicago airport
- At U.S. State Department, kids get sex scandal primer
- Judge won't dismiss key charge against WikiLeaks suspect
- U.S. finds discrimination in Memphis juvenile courts
- Army beefs up leadership at troubled Lewis-McChord base
- Florida judge blocks drug tests for state workers
- Missing children in U.S. nearly always make it home alive
- Crane owner acquitted in fatal Manhattan accident
- Lawyer says Arizona inmate shook violently during execution
- Repeal on Michigan emergency law doesn't make ballot
- Fund View: Biondo father-and-son mutual fund No. 1 in U.S
- The Killers saxophonist commits suicide
- Illinois man's ire over Martin case prompts hate crime -police
- Health insurers to pay $1.3 billion in rebates: study
- U.S. Republican urges Obama push on Russia trade bill
- Countrywide whistleblower sees no change in financial sector
- New York City sites compete for preservation grants
- Former U.S. Senator Edwards' defense suggests aide overstated threats
- U.S. voters favor regulating carbon dioxide: survey
- Texas executes man for 2002 murder
- Rash on passenger causes quarantine of plane in Chicago
- German analysts say new North Korea missiles are fakes
- U.S. ban sought on cell phone use while driving
- U.S. on guard for attacks ahead of bin Laden anniversary
- U.S. judge rejects releasing bin Laden photos
- Ohio struggles to draft tougher law after exotic animals' escape
- Authorities investigate health issue in plane at Chicago airport
- Bird strikes on airliners targeted in Congress, at airports
- Judge won't dismiss key charge against WikiLeaks suspect
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| U.S. on guard for attacks ahead of bin Laden anniversary Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has reviewed potential threats to the United States before next week's anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, but there is no concrete evidence al Qaeda is plotting any revenge attacks, the White House said on Thursday. U.S. Navy SEALs shot bin Laden last year in a raid on the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan before dawn on May 2 local time, which was May 1 in the United States. The killing is touted by the Obama administration as one of its top national security accomplishments. ... |
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| "Joke" to "Hijack Plane, Kill Obama" gets Utah man in trouble Posted: SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A purported practical joke on a colleague that threatened a plane hijacking and the assassination of President Barack Obama has landed a Utah man in trouble with federal authorities. Federal prosecutors say Jeremiah Hill placed a letter or note containing the threats inside a colleague's travel case while both were working at Hill Air Force Base, just north of Salt Lake City, last August. "1 - Hijack Plane, 2 - Kill Obama," the note read, according to court papers filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. ... |
| Rash on passenger causes quarantine of plane in Chicago Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Passengers and crew were held for more than two hours on an airplane at Chicago's Midway Airport on Thursday while a passenger with a rash was checked out for a possible infectious disease, but none was found, authorities said. The Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit was met by Chicago health and fire officials. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted, after the report of a passenger suffering from "a medical problem," said city aviation department spokeswoman Karen Pride. ... |
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| Ohio struggles to draft tougher law after exotic animals' escape Posted:
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| As Supreme Court mulls healthcare, rumors fly Posted:
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| Bosnian-born U.S. citizen "ready" to kill in New York plot: prosecutor Posted:
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| Texas executes man for 2002 murder Posted: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas executed a man on Thursday for killing a convenience store worker and wounding two female employees after a 2002 robbery, state officials said. Beunka Adams was the fifth person executed in Texas this year and the 17th person put to death in the United States in 2012. Prosecutors said the murder happened after Adams and another man robbed the store in the small east Texas town of Rusk in September 2002. ... |
| German analysts say new North Korea missiles are fakes Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - German analysts who have studied photos of six new North Korean missiles unveiled at a military parade in Pyongyang this month have concluded that they were low-quality fakes. German missile engineers Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker of Schmucker Technologie said their findings cast doubt on the impoverished Communist state's claims of military strength. "For now, the ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) presentation was nothing else than a nice dog and pony show," they wrote in an April 18 analysis posted online at Arms Control Wonk ... |
| Authorities investigate health issue in plane at Chicago airport Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago health and fire officials on Thursday were called to an airplane at Chicago Midway Airport after a report of a passenger with a medical problem, a spokeswoman for the city's aviation department said. City officials were notified at about 3:45 p.m. local time that Delta Air Lines flight 3163 from Detroit to Chicago was landing at Midway International Airport with a passenger suffering from "a medical issue," aviation department spokeswoman Karen Pride said. "Health officials and the fire department have responded to the medical issue on board," Pride said. ... |
| At U.S. State Department, kids get sex scandal primer Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Children participating in the State Department's "Take Your Child to Work" day event on Thursday were treated to a discussion of prostitutes and strip clubs as reporters pressed for answers on a widening Secret Service scandal. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland opened the daily news briefing with a salute to the handful of underage observers who joined journalists for the mid-day run-down of global events. But any hopes that the briefing would steer clear of the salacious dissipated as questions focused on charges that Secret Service agents and other U.S. ... |
| Judge won't dismiss key charge against WikiLeaks suspect Posted:
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| U.S. finds discrimination in Memphis juvenile courts Posted: NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Black youths arrested in Memphis, Tennessee, were much more likely than white juveniles to be jailed and tried as adults, discriminatory practices that also affect Hispanic youths in other cities, the Justice Department said on Thursday. A review of 66,000 juvenile court cases in Memphis, where numerous abuses drew Justice Department investigators in 2009, revealed "serious and systemic failures" in the way youthful offenders were treated, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said. ... |
| Army beefs up leadership at troubled Lewis-McChord base Posted: SEATTLE (Reuters) - The U.S. Army announced a new layer of command at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on Thursday as it looks to strengthen leadership at the Tacoma, Washington-area post which has earned a reputation as one of the most troubled in the U.S. military. The joint Army-Air Force base, with 43,000 active-duty military personnel and some 14,000 civilian employees, most recently attracted attention as the home base of Robert Bales, the staff sergeant accused of massacring 17 Afghan villagers in March. It was also home for a so-called "kill team," convicted of wartime atrocities in 2010. ... |
| Florida judge blocks drug tests for state workers Posted:
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| Missing children in U.S. nearly always make it home alive Posted:
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| Crane owner acquitted in fatal Manhattan accident Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan state judge on Thursday acquitted a construction company owner of manslaughter for a crane collapse that killed two workers in May, 2008 and raised fears about high-level building projects in New York. James Lomma, who owned the nearly 200-foot-tall crane that snapped in half and crashed onto a building on the Upper East Side, was acquitted of all charges. His companies, New York Crane & Equipment Corp. and J.F. Lomma, were also acquitted. The accident came two months after another crane operated by Lomma's company in Manhattan collapsed and killed seven ... |
| Lawyer says Arizona inmate shook violently during execution Posted: PHOENIX (Reuters) - The lawyer for a convicted murderer executed in Arizona said on Thursday his client shook violently after a lethal injection drug was administered, and may call for an independent autopsy to determine if he experienced any pain. A defiant Thomas Kemp, 63, was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence, about 60 miles southeast of Phoenix, for kidnapping and killing a Hispanic college student in 1992. His last words were: "I regret nothing. ... |
| Repeal on Michigan emergency law doesn't make ballot Posted: LANSING, Michigan (Reuters) - A proposed repeal of Michigan's controversial emergency manager law, aimed at repairing finances in struggling cities and school districts, failed to make the November ballot after a tie vote by a four-member state elections panel on Thursday. The commission's decision had been keenly awaited because a vote to let the referendum be put before voters would have suspended the emergency manager law pending the outcome of the vote. ... |
| Fund View: Biondo father-and-son mutual fund No. 1 in U.S Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - The best performance of any U.S. mutual fund in the first quarter was turned in by a father-and-son team swapping phone calls between South Florida and Northeast Pennsylvania. Joseph R. Biondo - who goes by Joe - and his son, Joseph P. Biondo, manage the Biondo Focus Fund, which has $23 million in assets. Their fund returned 39.7 percent over the first three months of this year, a full 8.6 percentage points more than its closest competitor, the $8.4 billion Fairholme fund managed by famed investor Bruce Berkowitz, according to Morningstar data. ... |
| The Killers saxophonist commits suicide Posted: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A saxophonist for rock band The Killers died earlier this week at his Las Vegas home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, a spokeswoman for the Clark County Coroner said on Thursday. Thomas "Tommy" Marth, 33, who played saxophone on live tours with The Killers between 2008 and 2010 and on their albums "Sam's Town" and "Day & Age," was found dead on Monday. His death has been ruled a suicide by officials in Clark County, Nevada, where Las Vegas is located. "Last night we lost our friend Thomas Marth. Our prayers are with his family. ... |
| Illinois man's ire over Martin case prompts hate crime -police Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - An 18-year-old black man has been charged with a hate crime after he told police he punched and kicked a white man during a robbery in a Chicago suburb because he was angry about the Trayvon Martin slaying, authorities said on Thursday. Alton Hayes III and a 15-year-old boy attacked the man last week in Oak Park, Illinois. Hayes told police he chose the man because he was white and beat him because he was angry about the Martin case, Andy Conklin of the Cook County prosecutor's office said. ... |
| Health insurers to pay $1.3 billion in rebates: study Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health insurers will pay $1.3 billion in rebates to consumers and employers this year under a provision of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law that penalizes plans that devote too little of their premium revenues to health services, an independent study showed on Thursday. The study, published by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, said the data illustrated some of the tangible benefits that consumers and employers could expect from the embattled 2010 law if it survives two major legal and political election-year challenges. ... |
| U.S. Republican urges Obama push on Russia trade bill Posted:
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| Countrywide whistleblower sees no change in financial sector Posted:
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| New York City sites compete for preservation grants Posted:
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| Former U.S. Senator Edwards' defense suggests aide overstated threats Posted:
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| U.S. voters favor regulating carbon dioxide: survey Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three out of four U.S. voters favor regulating carbon dioxide as a greenhouse-gas pollutant, and a majority think global warming should be a priority for the president and Congress, a survey of American attitudes on climate and energy reported on Thursday. The survey was released one day after Rolling Stone magazine published an interview with President Barack Obama in which he suggested that climate change would become a campaign issue this year. ... |
| Texas executes man for 2002 murder Posted: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas executed a man on Thursday for killing a convenience store worker and wounding two female employees after a 2002 robbery, state officials said. Beunka Adams was the fifth person executed in Texas this year and the 17th person put to death in the United States in 2012. Prosecutors said the murder happened after Adams and another man robbed the store in the small east Texas town of Rusk in September 2002. ... |
| Rash on passenger causes quarantine of plane in Chicago Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Passengers and crew were held for more than two hours on an airplane at Chicago's Midway Airport on Thursday while a passenger with a rash was checked out for a possible infectious disease, but none was found, authorities said. The Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit was met by Chicago health and fire officials. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted, after the report of a passenger suffering from "a medical problem," said city aviation department spokeswoman Karen Pride. ... |
| German analysts say new North Korea missiles are fakes Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - German analysts who have studied photos of six new North Korean missiles unveiled at a military parade in Pyongyang this month have concluded that they were low-quality fakes. German missile engineers Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker of Schmucker Technologie said their findings cast doubt on the impoverished Communist state's claims of military strength. "For now, the ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) presentation was nothing else than a nice dog and pony show," they wrote in an April 18 analysis posted online at Arms Control Wonk ... |
| U.S. ban sought on cell phone use while driving Posted:
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| U.S. on guard for attacks ahead of bin Laden anniversary Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has reviewed potential threats to the United States before next week's anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, but there is no concrete evidence al Qaeda is plotting any revenge attacks, the White House said on Thursday. U.S. Navy SEALs shot bin Laden last year in a raid on the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan before dawn on May 2 local time, which was May 1 in the United States. The killing is touted by the Obama administration as one of its top national security accomplishments. ... |
| U.S. judge rejects releasing bin Laden photos Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday refused to order President Barack Obama's administration to release photos and video of the U.S. military operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan almost a year ago and the al Qaeda leader's burial at sea. The government watchdog group Judicial Watch had requested the Defense Department and CIA release any photos or video footage of the May 1 operation that killed bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. ... |
| Ohio struggles to draft tougher law after exotic animals' escape Posted:
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| Authorities investigate health issue in plane at Chicago airport Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago health and fire officials on Thursday were called to an airplane at Chicago Midway Airport after a report of a passenger with a medical problem, a spokeswoman for the city's aviation department said. City officials were notified at about 3:45 p.m. local time that Delta Air Lines flight 3163 from Detroit to Chicago was landing at Midway International Airport with a passenger suffering from "a medical issue," aviation department spokeswoman Karen Pride said. "Health officials and the fire department have responded to the medical issue on board," Pride said. ... |
| Bird strikes on airliners targeted in Congress, at airports Posted:
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| Judge won't dismiss key charge against WikiLeaks suspect Posted:
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