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US News Archive for June 2007:
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Iraq?s Parliament Votes to Remove Speaker
The vote today opened the way for the Sunni coalition that had installed him to choose a replacement...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Judge Throws Out Sentence in Teen Sex Case
The 10-year sentence had been widely criticized as grossly disproportionate to the crime...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Court Says Military Cannot Hold 'Enemy Combatant'
The order was a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration?s central assertions about the scope of executive authority to combat terrorism...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
No-Confidence Vote on Gonzales Fails in the Senate
Although they fell short of the 60 votes needed to bring the no-confidence resolution to a vote, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales?s critics mustered a majority with some Republican support...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Qwest Chief Executive to Retire
Richard Notebaert said Monday he will leave as chairman and chief executive officer after the board had chosen a replacement...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Apple Releasing a Windows Browser
A Windows-based Safari Web browser opens a new front in Apple's rivalry with Microsoft...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Drug Maker Fined in Plavix Case
Drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb pleaded guilty to making false statements to a federal agency in a case involving its blockbuster drug, Plavix...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Poorer nations in trade talks vow
Developing nations will stand firm on key issues at upcoming world trade talks, Brazil's foreign minister says...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Warner hints at possible EMI bid
Warner Music says it has not yet ruled out making another bid for the iconic UK music business EMI Group...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
US 'cannot hold enemy combatant'
A Qatari man accused of links to al-Qaeda cannot be held in indefinite military detention, a US court rules...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
In Return Home to Mexico Grave, an Industry Rises
For many Mexicans the sojourn to the United States, legal or not, is meant to be temporary...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
The TV Watch: One Last Family Gathering
After eight years and so much frenzied anticipation, ?The Sopranos? kept fans guessing up to the final minute...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Bush Vows to Get Immigration Bill Passed
The president today also lashed out at Democrats for holding a vote of no confidence on his attorney general...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Addenda: Euro RSCG to Create Cracker Ads for Kraft
Kraft Foods has awarded the North American creative assignments for the Ritz and Triscuit lines of crackers to Euro RSCG Worldwide in New York...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
In pictures: Shuttle launch
Images from the 8 June launch of space shuttle Atlantis...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Pakistan probes Canadian death
Police investigate a cabinet minister in connection with the death of a Canadian woman in Pakistan...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Chile leader daughter recovering
The 23-year-old daughter of Chile's President Bachelet is recovering in hospital from a blood clot in the brain...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Bush stands by attorney general
President Bush backs Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who faces a no-confidence vote in the US Senate...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Three US troops die in Iraq
Three US soldiers die after a bomb attack causes a bridge across a highway near Baghdad to collapse...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Bridge collapse kills U.S. troops
Three U.S. soldiers were killed and six wounded when a suicide bomb blast caused a highway overpass to collapse on them near Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Monday. The attack came hours before a surprise visit to the country by British prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown...
CNN - June 11, 2007
Explosion rocks downtown Nairobi
An explosion has shaken downtown Nairobi, killing one person and injuring at least 31 others, officials say. The cause of the blast is not clear, but police say it appears to be caused by an object carried by a person...
CNN - June 11, 2007
NBC Studied Dow Jones Bid With Microsoft
General Electric?s NBC unit and Microsoft explored making a joint bid for Dow Jones but decided against it a week ago, a person close to NBC and Microsoft said...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
BBC man's lucky Thirteen
David Willis makes his Hollywood debut - almost - alongside George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Ocean's Thirteen...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Iranians confirm fourth US arrest
Iran confirms it is holding a fourth Iranian American, academic Ali Shakeri, on suspicion of spying...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
NBA: Spurs extend finals lead
San Antonio withstand a late charge by Cleveland for a 103-92 victory on Sunday and a 2-0 NBA finals lead...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Chile leader daughter gravely ill
A daughter of Chile's President Michelle Bachelet is in hospital after collapsing with a suspected blood clot...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Football: Galaxy 'no' to Real plan
David Beckham will turn down any offers by Real Madrid to remain at the Bernabeu, according to LA Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Anti-war camp sold as peace site
US activist Cindy Sheehan sells her anti-war site near President Bush's ranch with the buyer saying it will be preserved...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Senators debate Gonzales' fate
The US Senate is to debate a motion of no-confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a close ally of President Bush...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
US viewers watch Sopranos finale
Millions of US TV viewers tune in for the finale of The Sopranos to learn the fate of mob boss Tony Soprano...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Journalist's death condemned
U.S. First Lady Laura Bush issues a statement condemning the killing of the woman director of Peace Radio in Afghanistan, citing the slaying represents the threat terrorism poses to the dignity of women in that embattled country...
CNN - June 11, 2007
Militants throw rivals off Gaza high-rises
Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings. Hamas militants kidnapped an officer in a Fatah-linked security force, took him to the roof of a 15-story apartment building and threw him off. Hours later, a Hamas militant was thrown from the 12 floor of another building...
CNN - June 11, 2007
Twins among 6 slaughtered at home
Twin infant boys were among six people found shot to death in a rental house in southern Wisconsin, after a barrage of gunfire that neighbors thought was pre-Fourth of July firecrackers. A survivor, a 2-year-old girl, was shot in the chest and found in a van nearby...
CNN - June 11, 2007
Richard Rorty, Philosopher, Dies at 75
Mr. Rorty?s inventive work on philosophy, politics, literary theory and more made him one of the world?s most influential contemporary thinkers...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Spurs 103, Cavs 92: Spurs Show Cavs No Mercy
The Spurs emasculated the Cleveland Cavaliers Sunday night, further trashing LeBron James?s coming-out party...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Cosmetics Heir to Lead World Jewish Congress
Ronald S. Lauder, the cosmetics magnate, was elected president of the World Jewish Congress, the nonprofit group that fought to win billions for Holocaust victims...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Democrats Say They May Revisit Immigration Bill
Senate Democrats called on Republicans to produce an agreement on how to move the stalled measure forward...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
In Journey Home to Mexico Grave, an Industry Rises
The reverse journey of the dead suggests that for many Mexicans the sojourn to the United States, legal or not, is meant to be temporary...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
The TV Watch: One Last Family Gathering: You Eat, You Talk, It?s Over
It was almost fitting that ?The Sopranos,? a series that was neither comedy nor tragedy, should defy expectations in its very last moments...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Romney?s Run Has Mormons Wary of Scrutiny
For many Mormons, Mitt Romney?s bid for president is both a proud sign of progress and a cause of trepidation...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
States Finding Fiscal Surprise: A Cash Surplus
More than 40 states have found themselves with more money than they planned as they wound down their regular sessions...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Investing: What?s the Flavor of the Month? Medical Devices.
Venture capitalists are pouring money into medical-device companies at the expense of past favorites like computer-related start-ups or drug-development companies...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Risks and Rewards: Who Pays for Efficiency?
The quest to save dollars in the nation?s $2.1 trillion annual health care bill is becoming a lucrative market of its own...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Pharmaceuticals: In Biotech Brews, Questions of Consistency
Genentech is borrowing a bit of the winemaker?s art to make biotech pharmaceuticals...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Investing: WebMD?s Fever Chart
WebMD Health has built the most-visited and fastest-growing health site on the Internet, but should investors click on its stock?...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Economics: Pinning Down the Money Value of a Person?s Life
The price of health is part of the calculus in determining whether a new medicine or treatment is worth the cost...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
A TheirSpace for Drug Sales Reps
Drug and medical-device sales reps hash out their lives and work in tens of thousands of discussion threads at cafepharma.com...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Overhaul: Mandatory Coverage Is Easier Said Than Done
The idea of making coverage compulsory to help reduce the number of uninsured Americans is gaining momentum, but questions remain...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Treatments: Need a Knee Replaced? Check Your ZIP Code.
Around the United States, there are perplexing geographic variations in medical expenses and the quality of care...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Looking Ahead
READING REPORTS Signals on inflation will come from reports on the Consumer Price Index (Friday), the Producer Price Index (Thursday) and the Fed?s beige book on regional economic conditions (Wednesday)...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Press Boxes Become an Afterthought, After the Thought of Luxury Seats
Sports teams owners are rearranging their home facilities to accommodate more luxury suites at the expense of sportswriters...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Treasury Sales Set
The Treasury?s schedule of financings this week includes today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
An Editor?s Untimely Departure Is Captured in Just a Flicker
John Curley, a former deputy managing editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, announced he was let go by posting the news on Flickr, the photo-sharing Web site...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Drilling Down: When Lots of Money Makes You Feel Rich
People are sometimes more extravagant with currencies that have high face values...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Health Costs Push Companies to Set Targets for Workers
Many companies are playing a bigger role in managing and monitoring their workers? health in an effort to cut health care costs...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Box Office for Horror Movies Is Weak, Verging on Horrible
Moviegoers put a nail in the coffin of a dying horror boom this weekend, as ?Hostel: Part II? opened far behind the crime caper ?Ocean?s Thirteen.?...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Bankruptcy Filing May Delay Pornography on Cellphones
Amp?d Mobile?s filing for protection from bankruptcy may delay the introduction of sex-oriented programming on cellphones...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Nonorganic Exceptions Ruffle Enthusiasts of Organic Food
The Department of Agriculture is poised to approve a list of nonorganic ingredients that can be used in food stamped with an organic seal...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Fewer Journalists Seeking Fellowships
Journalism fellowship programs are feeling the fallout of the media industry?s turmoil...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Rolling Stone Finding Out Green Isn?t Green Enough
As Rolling Stone and other publications try to be green, they are drawing criticism from environmentalists who think they are not doing enough...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Market Place: Which Newspaper Will Be Next?
Despite the recent spate of takeovers in the beleaguered newspaper industry, analysts are skeptical that many more will follow...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
E-Commerce Report: Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers
Retailers and manufacturers are setting up shop in Second Life, the three-dimensional online world, hoping that users will steer their avatars to real world stores...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
A Few Details of the iPhone Galvanize the Apple Cadre
Last week viewers pored over four iPhone commercials with Talmudic intensity, trying to determine precisely how the phone will operate...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Sony?s Other Games Division Makes Push in New Direction
Sony has a long and colorful history of failure on the Internet, but there has been a bright spot...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
A Publishing Quandary: Do Excerpts Help Sales?
Although excerpts from high-profile books routinely appear in national magazines, some publishers have been having second thoughts about the strategy...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
The Media Equation: Call the Doctor
The controversy over the drug Avandia demonstrates how the Web seems better-suited to Paris Hilton than patient safety...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Putin Plays Down I.M.F. and W.T.O.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called for a new global economic framework that would emphasize regional alliances...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Libby?s Supporters Who Wrote to Judge Learn That Letters Take on New Life on the Web
In what may be a sign of things to come, the lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. last month invoked a rarely used courtroom tactic: the ?bloggers can be mean? defense...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Antihistamine Shows Promise in Treating Alzheimer?s
Dimebon, a drug long used as an antihistamine in Russia, is showing what some say are surprisingly strong results in treating Alzheimer?s disease...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Top Editor Is Leaving Book Post
Daniel Menaker, the executive editor in chief of the Random House Publishing Group, is leaving the company at the end of June...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
A Dog or a Cat? New Tests to Fool Automated Spammers
Several Internet companies, including Microsoft and eBay, are working on new ways to keep spammers from infiltrating their sites...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Advertising: Marketers Are Joining the Varsity
Marketing and media companies are now capitalizing on consumer interest in high school sports and becoming big boosters of them...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
At Creative Artists, a Bit of Blushing After a Corporate Kiss-Off
In the new Hollywood, agencies are finding it can be tougher to meet the needs of a corporate customer than to baby-sit for a temperamental star...
New York Times - June 11, 2007
Cuba ordains first woman bishop
The Episcopal Church in Cuba consecrates a woman bishop - the first in the developing world...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
Powell urges Guantanamo closure
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell urges the immediate closure of the US prison in Guantanamo Bay...
BBC News - June 11, 2007
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