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US News Archive for February 2006:
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'Deadline set' for Iraq hostage
The kidnappers of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll have set a February 26 deadline for their demands to be met or she will be killed, Alrai Television in Kuwait reported citing sources close to the kidnappers...
CNN - February 10, 2006
Drug Penalties Create Cloud Over Festive Start of Turin Games
Four cross-country skiers were suspended and the world's top-ranked skeleton racer was banned from the Winter Games...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Former Connecticut Governor Leaves Prison
John Rowland, the former Connecticut governor, was released from prison early today, two days before his scheduled release on federal corruption charges...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Huge California wildfire 'tamed'
Firefighters battling a huge wildfire in California say they hope to bring it under control over the weekend...
BBC News - February 10, 2006
Iraqis forming new government
Iraqi officials began forming a new government Friday, with the announcement of certified results from last month's parliamentary elections, just as a car bomb exploded in Baghdad killing 7 and wounding 22...
CNN - February 10, 2006
Brown: 'I certainly feel somewhat abandoned'
Former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown told a Senate panel Friday that he feels he's been made a scapegoat for the government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina...
CNN - February 10, 2006
Ex-Cheney Aide Testified Leak Was Ordered, Prosecutor Says
I. Lewis Libby Jr. told a grand jury that he was authorized by his "superiors" to disclose classified information in June and July 2003...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Brown Asserts He Alerted White House Quickly on Katrina
Michael D. Brown testified today that he told the White House that flooding had begun in New Orleans on the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
U.S. Skeleton Athlete Is Barred From Olympics
Zach Lund will be barred from the Games after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled against him Friday in the appeal of his positive doping test, according to sources who were briefed on the decision...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
U.S. Trade Deficit Hit All-Time High in 2005
For the month of December, the trade deficit edged up a slight 1.5 percent to $65.7 billion, the third highest monthly figure on record...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
US trade gap hits record in 2005
The US trade deficit widens in December, pushing 2005's shortfall to record levels...
BBC News - February 10, 2006
Oracle set to fire 2,000 workers
US software giant Oracle will fire 2,000 workers as part of its push to cut costs after its latest takeover...
BBC News - February 10, 2006
Mexican artist Soriano dies at 85
The death of Mexican sculptor and painter Juan Soriano, who had a career lasting nearly 70 years, is announced...
BBC News - February 10, 2006
Getty head resigns amid inquiry
The president of the J Paul Getty Trust resigns as an inquiry takes place into allegations of fund misuse...
BBC News - February 10, 2006
US 'selected' Iraq intelligence
An ex-CIA official says Washington "cherry-picked" intelligence on Iraq before the 2003 invasion...
BBC News - February 10, 2006
Murder suspect agrees to be tried in U.S.
A British man charged with the murder of his American wife and baby in the United States agreed Friday to surrender to U.S. officials. Neil Entwistle, 27, is expected to be extradited to Massachusetts within a week...
CNN - February 10, 2006
U.S. suspect agrees to extradition
A British man charged with the murder of his American wife and baby has agreed to be extradited to the United States, his lawyer told a London court on Friday...
CNN - February 10, 2006
Democrats: Levee breaches reported early
Senate Democrats say they have documented nearly 30 instances in which federal and local government officials reported on the day of Hurricane Katrina's landfall that levees had broken and that New Orleans was flooding. The Democrats released the documents Thursday in advance of a Senate hearing today featuring former FEMA Director Mike Brown...
CNN - February 10, 2006
Bush wins deal on anti-terror law
Key US senators agree to extend the Patriot Act, increasing the government's anti-terror powers...
BBC News - February 10, 2006
U.S. hostage: Meet their demands
Abducted American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video broadcast on Kuwaiti television Thursday, urging the U.S. government to meet her kidnappers' demands. The 28-year-old reporter was kidnapped January 7 in western Baghdad after attempting to meet with an Iraqi official...
CNN - February 10, 2006
New evidence may solve church fires
Investigators looking into the fires at nine Baptist churches in Alabama over the past week are hoping a handprint left on one church's front door may help catch the perpetrator...
CNN - February 10, 2006
Official Resigns Public TV Post
Some see political overtones to Michael Pack's departure from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
As Torch Nears, Worries and Woes Flicker
The protesters managed to generate enough worry that Olympic organizers, for the third time in recent days, diverted the path of the torch relay to avoid them...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
The Inquiry: White House Knew of Levee's Failure on Night of Storm
The Bush administration was alerted to broken levees and flooding in New Orleans hours after their collapse, documents show...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Warning Urged on Stimulants Like Ritalin
Manufacturers of stimulants like Ritalin should be required to place risk warnings on drug labels, the F.D.A. advised...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Insider: An Appetite for Fast Gains From Restaurant Chains
Hedge fund activists are redirecting their recent interest in fast food to casual dining, and focusing beyond high margins in the kitchen to finding value in the land beneath it...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
News Analysis: In the Cendant Trial, Ignorance Was an Excuse
Walter A. Forbes testified that operations of the company were left to others, a defense that worked at his first trial and has worked again...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Advertising: Sir Martin's Street Fight
An investigation by the WPP Group into its operations in Italy is pitting its pugnacious chief executive against an equally aggressive Italian businessman...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Pressured, Director of Getty Trust Steps Down
Barry Munitz's lavish expense account spending is under investigation by the California attorney general's office...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Shares Mixed as Investors Worry About What's to Come
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
A War in Mexico: Drug Runners Gun Down Journalists
Drug dealers and corrupt police officers regularly kill those who write about them, leading most reporters to censor themselves, journalists say...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Lurid Numbers on Glossy Pages! (Magazines Exploit What Sells)
Magazines have long used numbers as a selling point, but now these totals seem both increasingly random and increasingly increasing...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
[TS] Perhaps Exxon Really Needs Stock Options
Could the decision to make chief executives so rich, even if the company's stock does nothing, be reducing the drive of big American companies?...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Sales Growth Helped Unilever Return to Profit in 4th Quarter
Unilever returned to profit in the fourth quarter but analysts questioned whether it had made progress or merely spent more to advertise its top brandss...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Oracle Will Lay Off 2,000 Employees
The business software maker said that it would lay off about 2,000 employees as it tried to improve profit from its recent $5.85 billion takeover of Siebel Systems...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Public Lives: The Hotel Man Who's Expanding the Javits Center
Joseph E. Spinnato, president of the Hotel Association of New York City, is also in the driver's seat on expanding the Jacob Javits Center...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Best Buy Lifts Its Outlook, Sending Stock 8.5% Higher
Best Buy raised its quarterly earnings outlook, citing sales of flat-panel television sets and setting off a rise of more than 8 percent in its share price...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
High-Profile Doctor to Leave Position at Cleveland Clinic
The public face of the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Eric J. Topol, is leaving for academia after a divisive yearlong dispute with the clinic's chief executive, Dr. Delos M. Cosgrove...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Profit at Aetna Increased 41% in 4th Quarter
Aetna, one of the nation's largest health insurance providers, said that its fourth-quarter profit rose 41 percent as it added customers and held down costs...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
South Koreans Visit Intel With Questions
South Korean regulators have questioned some of Intel's employees as part of an investigation of its marketing and rebate programs, the company said...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Big British Supermarket Chain Will Open Small Stores in U.S.
The British supermarket chain Tesco announced plans to open a chain of small convenience stores across the United States beginning next year...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Gateway Chief Out; Chairman Steps In
Wayne R. Inouye, the chief executive who refocused Gateway on personal computer sales, has resigned and will be succeeded temporarily by the chairman, Rick Snyder...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Wachovia Moves In
Brick by brick, the bank, now the fourth biggest in the United States, has expanded its capital markets businesses...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Kidnapped U.S. Journalist Pleads, 'Just Do Whatever They Want'
The kidnapped journalist appeared in a video shown Thursday in Kuwait. She said there is little time left to win her release...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Demand Strong as 30-Year Bond Makes a Comeback
The first auction of 30-year Treasury bonds since 2001 allowed the U.S. government to borrow $14 billion at a yield of up to 4.53 percent...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Inventory Data Hint at Good Sales Outlook
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
BlackBerry Maker Promises to Offer Backup Gear Soon
Research in Motion said that it would soon release backup software that would keep its BlackBerry wireless e-mail service working even if a federal court shuts down the current system...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Toyota Introduces Its Entry in the Big-Pickup Wars
The new Tundra pickup, introduced at the Chicago Auto Show, is the first Toyota offering of a truck as large and powerful as vehicles from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Up Next for Repair: Renault
Carlos Ghosn became perhaps the auto industry's most celebrated Mr. Fix-It with his turnaround of Nissan Motor. Now he's setting out to revitalize Renault...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
A.I.G. Apologizes and Agrees to $1.64 Billion Settlement
The American International Group agreed to pay $1.64 billion to settle charges of fraud in the way it attracted business and reported its results...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Enron Witness's Plea Bargain Is Questioned by the Defense
A lawyer for Jeffrey K. Skilling suggested that a prosecution witness in the trial of Mr. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay did not commit the crimes he admitted to under a plea deal with prosecutors...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
For Oprah Winfrey, Satellite Radio Is the Newest Frontier
XM Satellite Radio announced that it had signed Ms. Winfrey to a three-year deal to create a channel called Oprah & Friends for its pay service...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
Oil Giants Fell Behind on Fees
Dozens of energy companies fell nearly $500 million behind last year on royalty payments the U.S. says they owed for oil and gas extracted from public territory...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
F.C.C. Sees Cable Savings in ā la Carte
Consumers would save as much as 13 percent on their cable bills if they could buy only the channels they want...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
A Second Mistrial Is Declared in Fraud Case Against the Former Chairman of Cendant
The fraud trial of Walter A. Forbes ended in a mistrial Thursday after the jury announced that it had failed to reach a unanimous verdict in its 27th day of deliberations...
New York Times - February 10, 2006
'Vigilante killings' in Guatemala
Twelve bodies, some with gang tattoos, are found after apparent vigilante killings in Guatemala...
BBC News - February 10, 2006
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