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US News Archive for April 2006:
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Rumsfeld 'exactly what is needed'
U.S. President George W. Bush says his embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has his "full support and deepest appreciation."...
CNN - April 14, 2006
Plea for calm after Delhi blasts
The imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid appeals for calm after two explosions detonate near his mosque as crowds of Muslim worshippers gather for Friday prayers...
CNN - April 14, 2006
Report: Criticism of FEMA's Katrina response deserved
After being roundly criticized in a slew of media, congressional and government reports, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's internal watchdog Friday returned its own verdict on the handling of Hurricane Katrina: The criticism against FEMA is largely deserved...
CNN - April 14, 2006
Bush: Rumsfeld 'exactly what is needed'
President Bush said Friday that his embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has his "full support and deepest appreciation" after a number of retired generals called for Rumsfeld's resignation...
CNN - April 14, 2006
President Bush's Tax Returns Are Made Public
The president and Laura Bush reported adjusted gross income of $735,180 for last year and paid federal income taxes of $187,768...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Elderly Man Killed in Coptic Church Attacks in Egypt
The Egyptian government, which is sensitive to sectarian incidents, cast the attack as an aberration...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Internal Report Urges Changes After Katrina
An internal Homeland Security study includes 38 recommendations for improving disaster response...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Berlusconi's Election Fight Seems All but Over
Italy's Interior Ministry announced a far smaller number of contested ballots in this week's narrow elections...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Police Interview Duke Lacrosse Players
Detectives talked to the players about a party at the center of an investigation into an alleged gang rape...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Bush Declares Full Support for Rumsfeld
President Bush strongly backed the defense secretary today, despite calls from retired generals that he step down...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Cricket: Lara on captain shortlist
Former skipper Brian Lara is one of six players being considered for the job of West Indies captain...
BBC News - April 14, 2006
General denies anti-Rumsfeld drive
Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, one of several retired generals who has recently called for the resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, says there is no coordinated anti-Rumsfeld effort among the generals, and that he has not talked to the others...
CNN - April 14, 2006
Dozen hurt in Delhi mosque blasts
At least a dozen people have been injured in two explosions near New Delhi's main mosque, according to officials...
CNN - April 14, 2006
General: No coordinated anti-Rumsfeld drive
Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, one of several retired generals who has recently called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, said Friday there is no coordinated anti-Rumsfeld effort among the generals, and that he hasn't talked to the others...
CNN - April 14, 2006
Police May Have Searched Rooms of Duke Players
Duke's president confirmed the search effort, but he said he did not know if it was completed...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Insurgents Ambush Iraqi Police Convoy
Insurgents let U.S. troops pass by before opening fire, killing nine Iraqis. Thirty-four are missing...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Samsung Profit Drops Sharply
Steep declines in global prices hurt earnings from cell phones and memory chips for the South Korean maker of consumer electronics...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
F.B.I. Links Big Film Names to a Detective
Two Hollywood figures were allegedly closer to Anthony Pellicano than either has admitted...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Auto Bailout Seems Unlikely
The government shows no signs of hurrying to the auto industry's rescue and the reasons are telling...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Retailers Asked to Remove a Lens Cleaner
After reports of illness, Bausch & Lomb said that it urged retailers to drop ReNu With MoistureLoc solution...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Deal May Avert Pilot Strike at Delta
A strike could have crippled Delta, which filed for bankruptcy protection in September, possibly forcing liquidation...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
U.N. presses Iran on nuclear plans
Iran has not yet agreed to international demands that it halt uranium enrichment, but plenty of time remains to settle the standoff over its nuclear program, the top U.N. nuclear watchdog says...
CNN - April 14, 2006
Iowa twisters kill one
Severe storms ripped through eastern Iowa on Thursday night, spawning tornadoes that demolished homes and cars and killed one person. The National Weather Service said the fatality occurred in Muscatine County, where a tornado toppled the victim's mobile home in Nichols...
CNN - April 14, 2006
Kafr El Sheik Ibrahim Journal: In the Nile Delta, Bird Flu Preys on Ignorance and Poverty
With the arrival of avian flu, the Egyptian government was faced not just with a medical and scientific battle, but also a serious social problem...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
No clear winner in Peru
The outcome of Peru's presidential elections appears less clear as they twist and turn through their various stages, writes Daniel Schweimler...
BBC News - April 14, 2006
Strength in numbers
Marchers on the streets of Los Angeles show the strength of their convictions, says the BBC's Duncan Kennedy...
BBC News - April 14, 2006
Skilling slams Enron prosecutors
The former Enron chief accuses government prosecutors of trying to "rewrite history"...
BBC News - April 14, 2006
Revolt against Rumsfeld grows
The American military commander who led the elite 82nd Airborne Division during its mission in Iraq has joined the chorus of retired generals calling on U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to leave the Pentagon...
CNN - April 14, 2006
Moussaoui, Testifying Again, Voices Glee Over Witnesses' Accounts of Sept. 11 Grief
Zacarias Moussaoui took the stand for the second time in his sentencing trial and told the jury, "We want to inflict pain on your country."...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Boy Who Helped Yankees Is a Hit Again
Jeffrey Maier was 12 when he helped propel the Yankees to the 1996 World Series. He is in the news again...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr. became the fifth retired senior general in recent days to call publicly for the defense secretary's ouster...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Path to Deportation Can Start With a Traffic Stop
Some local and state law enforcement officials are taking it upon themselves to pursue deportation cases against illegal immigrants...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Helping Save Prickly Victims of Development
A cactus rescue effort in Arizona reflects a movement toward regionally apt, drought-tolerant gardening...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
The Churn: People
People...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Foreign Briefing: Europe, Americas
EUROPE...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
New Form Approved for Alcoholism Drug
A once-a-month injection to treat alcoholism won federal approval, expanding availability of a drug previously sold only in daily pill form...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Rival Acquires New Jersey Bank
By Reuters...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
From Faint Meows, a Frenzy Grows
In Greenwich Village, the fate of a trapped cat named Molly captivated New York and much of America...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Insider: Are Shares of Exchanges Entering Bubble Territory?
Investors are frothing over publicly traded exchanges, which may not seem sexy, but the price-to-earnings multiples of their shares are...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Shares Rise as Earnings Hopes Trump Commodity Prices
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Tapping Into the Hispanic Market
A new breed of private equity firms is on the lookout for investments that can tap into the fast-growing Spanish-speaking market in the United States...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Two Funds Closed to New Investors
BOSTON, April 13 (AP) — Fidelity Investments said on Thursday that it was closing two large and recently popular mutual funds to new investors, two weeks after closing its biggest fund, the $65 billion Contrafund...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Qualcomm Agrees to Fine
Qualcomm agreed to pay a $1.8 million civil fine for taking control of Flarion Technologies before antitrust authorities had approved the $600 million buyout...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
S.E.C. Accuses Saudi Financier and Executive of Stock Fraud
A Saudi Arabian financier and a former executive of a defunct telemarketing company were sued over claims that they orchestrated a stock loan and manipulation scheme...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
U.S. Seeks Order to End What It Calls a Tax Scheme
The lawsuits are the latest against people who claim that the tax laws are invalid, deceptive or that the federal government is a criminal organization...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Retail Sales Rebounded in March, Rising 0.6%
The gain came after shoppers took a breather in February and sales fell 0.8 percent, according to revised figures...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Advertising: Lagging Ad Sales Contribute to Earnings Decline at Newspaper Chains
Stagnant advertising, particularly in the automotive and entertainment categories, and a continuing rise in the cost of newsprint contributed to lower earnings...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
G.E. Earnings Increase 9%, Matching Wall St. Forecasts
The quarterly report, which met Wall Street's expectations to the penny, did not excite investors...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Pension Rule Could Lower Net Worths
The new rule would eliminate the pension numbers that now appear on corporate balance sheets and replace those figures with current, market-based numbers...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
[TS] At Visteon, Bonuses Defy Gravity
Last year, Visteon's stock price fell by 36 percent. So far this year it is down another 27 percent. But there is little pain at the top...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Jackson Makes Deal to Overhaul His Finances
As part of a $300 million refinancing, Michael Jackson agreed to sell half of his 50 percent stake in Sony/ATV Music Publishing...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Forget Computers. Here Comes the Sun.
The fledgling solar-cell industry uses just about as many silicon wafers as the chip industry does, but the resemblance ends there...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Bausch & Lomb Asks Retailers to Remove a Lens Cleaner
After reports of illness, Bausch & Lomb said that it had asked retailers to temporarily remove its ReNu With MoistureLoc solution from store shelves...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Jury Hears Indignation of Skilling
Jeffrey K. Skilling admitted Thursday that he made mistakes at Enron, even as he continued to profess his innocence...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
F.B.I. Files Link Big Film Names to a Detective
Paramount's chief and a talent agent had direct dealings with a detective at the center of a wiretapping scandal...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
If Detroit Calls, U.S. May Not Replay the Bailout Role
The government today shows no signs of hurrying to the auto industry's rescue and the reasons are telling...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Treasury Rate Signals Burdens for Borrowers
Investors pushed up the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note to over 5 percent, its highest point in nearly four years...
New York Times - April 14, 2006
Golf: Taylor leads at Heritage
America's Vaughn Taylor leads the Verizon Heritage in South Carolina after a first-round 63...
BBC News - April 14, 2006
Man charged in US family killing
Police in Pennsylvania charge a man with killing six relatives found in the basement of a family home...
BBC News - April 14, 2006
White House supports Rumsfeld
The White House backs Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq despite calls for his resignation...
BBC News - April 14, 2006
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