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US News Archive for Octomber 2006:
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Poll: Support for Iraq war at all-time low
A poll conducted for CNN over the weekend suggests support among Americans for the war in Iraq is dwindling to an all-time low...
CNN - October 16, 2006
Rice: Clear message sent to NK
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the U.N. resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea is a "clear message" that Pyongyang must "make a new set of calculations" about its nuclear endeavors...
CNN - October 16, 2006
Home of congressman's daughter raided
The FBI raided the homes of Rep. Curt Weldon's daughter and a close friend Monday as it investigates whether the congressman improperly helped the pair win lobbying and consulting contracts...
CNN - October 16, 2006
Rice: Resolution sends 'clear message'
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday the U.N. resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea was a "clear message" that Pyongyang must "make a new set of calculations" about its nuclear endeavors...
CNN - October 16, 2006
Schwarzenegger Visits Bloomberg’s New York
The governor of California spent the day in the city touting environmental initiatives and will attend a fundraiser with the mayor...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Lawyer Gets Prison Term in Terrorism Case
Lynne F. Stewart was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for helping a client in prison on terrorism charges to communicate with his followers...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Lieberman Clashes With Lamont and G.O.P. Rival
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman took shots from both ends of the political spectrum in a three-way debate today...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Disney unveils healthy-eating bid
Entertainment group Walt Disney pledges to cut calories in its foods amid growing concern over child obesity...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
Peru's ex-President Paniagua dies
Former Peruvian President Valentin Paniagua dies aged 70 after spending several days in a coma...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
US population to hit 300 million
The US population will hit 300 million on Tuesday, 39 years after reaching 200 million, officials predict...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
US lawyer jailed on terror charge
US lawyer Lynne Stewart is jailed for 28 months on terror-related charges over passing on messages from a client...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
911 call: 'Shawn, don't do it'
Fourteen-year-old Shayne Bentler called 911 and told the dispatcher her brother was "going to do something," according to police. Then a voice in the background said, "Shawn, don't do it," followed by the sound of a gunshot. The caller screams, "Shawn no!" before the call ends. Shayne is dead, along with her parents and two sisters. Her brother, 22-year-old Shawn Michael Bentler, is being held on $2.5 million bond...
CNN - October 16, 2006
U.S. confirms N. Korea nuke test
An analysis of air samples collected shortly after North Korea declared it had conducted an underground nuclear explosion confirms the test took place, according to the office of the U.S. director of national intelligence...
CNN - October 16, 2006
Bush to Iraqi leader: No plans to withdrawal
President Bush personally assured Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Monday that he has no plans to pull troops out and told him to ignore rumors the United States would enforce a timeline against Baghdad...
CNN - October 16, 2006
End of a Punk-Rock Institution Whose Attitude Won't Die
At the end, Patti Smith grew teary-eyed as she read a list of dead punk-rock musicians and advocates...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Lawyer Is Due for Sentencing in Terror Case
After being convicted 20 months ago on terror charges, Lynne F. Stewart now faces the possibility of living out her life in federal prison...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Barbie helps boost Mattel profit
Sales of Barbie dolls and a Sesame Street cuddly toy lift US toymaker Mattel's third-quarter profits to $239m...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
Iran leader in Bush 'Satan' claim
Iran's President Ahmadinejad attacks US President George W Bush, saying he is inspired by Satan, Iranian media say...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
Israeli president may face rape charge
Police in Israel are recommending that the country's president be charged with rape and other crimes against several women, a police announcement said...
CNN - October 16, 2006
Doctors Say Electric Pulses Aided Brain-Damaged Man
A team of neuroscientists reported that they had restored some movement and speech to a severely brain-damaged man...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
In Thailand, More Survive AIDS, Only to Face Rejection
Thailand is a leader in H.I.V. prevention but has made little headway in easing the stigma against the disease...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Owens guides Cowboys to victory
Terrell Owens catches three late touchdown passes to help the Dallas Cowboys to victory over the Houston Texans...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
Bush aides 'mocked evangelicals'
President Bush's top advisers ridiculed evangelical leaders while publicly embracing them, a new book says...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
Quake rattles Hawaii
A strong earthquake followed by a series of sharp aftershocks jolted Hawaii, terrifying residents and causing extensive structural damage and widespread power outages, but there were no immediate reports of fatalities...
CNN - October 16, 2006
Weekend toll in Iraq: 83 bodies
Iraqi police found 83 bodies in Iraq over the weekend, an official with Baghdad emergency police said. The official said 51 bullet-riddled bodies were found in Baghdad, with some of the bodies showing signs of torture. In addition, 26 bodies were found in Balad on Saturday and six bodies were found in Baquba and Mosul, officials said...
CNN - October 16, 2006
U.S. presses Beijing on N. Korea
The United States is urging China to help enforce United Nation's sanctions against North Korea for its claimed nuclear test. Although Beijing has voted for a package of sanctions, it objects to stopping North Korean ships...
CNN - October 16, 2006
Pirro Attacks, Cuomo Parries at First Debate
The two candidates spent an hour attacking and undercutting each other in their first televised debate...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
U.S. Firing Plans for Great Lakes Raise Concerns
Coast Guard officials want to mount machine guns on their boats around the Great Lakes as a counterterrorism measure...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
A Strong Earthquake Rattles Hawaii
There was no word of deaths, but there were many unconfirmed reports of injuries and a landslide on the largest island...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Bush’s Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
Tony Snow is reinventing his job as White House press secretary by raising money for Republican national candidates...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
N.L.C.S. Game 4 - Mets 12, Cardinals 5: With Ace on Deck, Pérez Helps Mets Pull Even
Oliver Pérez kept the Mets in the game long enough for their revived offense to roll to a 12-5 victory over the Cardinals and even the N.L.C.S. at 2-2...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
In Final Weeks, G.O.P. Focuses on Best Bets
Republicans seem to be conceding some Senate and House seats and moving money and other resources into more promising races...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Treasury Bills Scheduled for This Week
The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week included today’s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Stock Offerings This Week
The following equity and convertible debt offerings are expected this week:...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Addenda
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New York Times - October 16, 2006
Looking Ahead
IMPROMPTU OPEC MEETING Members of OPEC plan an emergency meeting in Doha, Qatar, to see if they can hammer out the details of a tentative plan to cut oil supplies by a million barrels a day and put a floor under prices (Thursday). Over the weekend, Edmund Daukoru of Nigeria, the president of OPEC, called the drop in crude oil prices since July “catastrophic.” Although the 11 members of OPEC seem to agree on the need to rid world markets of excess oil, the situation gets a bit stickier from there, with countries like Iran and Venezuela vying with bigger producers like Saudi Arabia and Algeria for market share...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Disney Chief’s Gift to College Draws Students’ Ire, Briefly
Students at Ithaca College planned to protest an appearance by Robert A. Iger in part because of accusations of media bias in Disney’s docudrama “The Path to 9/11.”...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
A Power-Grid Report Suggests Some Dark Days Ahead
Companies are not building power plants and power lines fast enough to meet growing demand, according to the report...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Inquiry Is Critical of BP in Refinery Fire
BP did not have procedures in place that could have prevented a fire in July 2005 at its refinery in Texas City, federal investigators said...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Euronext and N.Y.S.E. Open to Rival Talks
Euronext and the NYSE Group said they are willing to start talks with Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana on combining their European cash equity businesses...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Open Solutions Sold in $1.3 Billion Deal
Open Solutions agreed Sunday to be acquired by Providence Equity Partners and the Carlyle Group in a deal valued at about $1.3 billion...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Drilling Down: The Youngsters Aren’t Listening as Much
Radio listening hours have dropped almost 21 percent for 18- to 24-year-olds and 19 percent in the 12-to-17 demographic over the last 10 years...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Verizon May Spin Off Its Directories Unit
Verizon Communications is close to deciding to spin off its directories division, which publishes Verizon SuperPages, because a spinoff would cost less in taxes than a sale...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Overage Logos, Underage Market
Outrage at back-to-school ads pitching shirts with slogans like “Beer, It’s What’s for Breakfast” to teenagers caused Macy’s to pull the shirts from its shelves...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
55 Million Blogs, and Now a Service to Track Them
The Edelman public relations firm is sponsoring development of Technorati sites to monitor blogs written in French, German, Italian, Korean and Chinese...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Volkswagen Backs Deal for Truck Maker
Volkswagen threw its weight behind a hostile bid by the German truck maker MAN to acquire a Swedish rival, Scania...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
The Reporter Is Real, but the World He Covers Isn’t
Adam Pasick, a Reuters technology reporter, is heading up the news agency’s first virtual news bureau inside the online role-playing game Second Life...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Defending a Blurred Line: Is It Spam or Just a Company Marketing by E-Mail?
Email marketers are mounting a fierce challenge to blacklists, lists created by online spam fighters to help filter out the worst senders of unwanted email...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
As U.S. Is Reviled Abroad, American TV Charms
In the parliaments and pubs of Europe, the U.S. has least-favored-nation status. But on television, American shows are experiencing a prime time renaissance...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Advertising: A Second Capote Film, Pitched as the Same but Different
Warner Independent Pictures is trying to sell “Infamous,” its new Truman Capote biopic, by comparing it to last year’s critically acclaimed “Capote.”...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
The Media Equation: Idiosyncratic and Personal, PC Edges TV
Computers have become so effective at making time disappear that they threaten to make traditional models of wasting hours (i.e., television) disappear, too...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Chinese Government Relaxes Its Total Ban on Wikipedia
China last week lifted its block on most of the English-language version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, but the Chinese-language site remains blocked...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
E-Commerce Report: I’ll Trade You My ‘Titanic’ for Your ‘Spider-Man’
Bartering, one of the world’s oldest forms of commerce, is finally gaining a foothold on the Internet, bolstered by sites where users trade books, albums and movies...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Joining the Party, Eager to Make Friends
Advertisers hope to use social networking sites to get the attention of tens of millions of young people who increasingly avoid television commercials...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
It’s Not a Klimt, but the Eastern European TV Venture Is Sweet
Ronald S. Lauder, the art collector and cosmetics heir, sold half his stake in Central European Media Enterprises in August for $190 million...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Health Insurer’s Chief Is Ousted in Options Inquiry
The head of UnitedHealth Group was forced to step down and to give up some of the $1.78 billion in stock options he had received...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
As Lenders, Hedge Funds Draw Insider Scrutiny
Questions are being raised about the role hedge funds play in the flow of information on Wall Street...
New York Times - October 16, 2006
Man charged over Iowa bloodbath
US police charge a young man with killing his parents and three teenage sisters at their home in rural Iowa...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
Latam pair in battle for UN seat
Intense lobbying surrounds a vote due on Venezuela and Guatemala's bids for a UN Security Council seat...
BBC News - October 16, 2006
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