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US News Archive for May 2005:
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Terror message: Civilian deaths justified
A chilling, audio file thought to be from the most-wanted man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, insists Muslim religious doctrine justifies the killing of Muslims by insurgents. "The shedding of Muslim blood ... is allowed in order to avoid the greater evil of disrupting jihad," says the voice on the tape. More than 400 Iraqis have been killed during the three weeks since the formation of Iraq's new transitional government...
CNN - May 18, 2005
Trump's Ground Zero plan
Officials in charge of rebuilding the World Trade Center site Wednesday were quick to dismiss real estate developer Donald Trump's proposal to scrap their plan and instead build "reincarnated" twin towers similar to the originals...
CNN - May 18, 2005
When Death Means the Loss of an Archive
Joe Nash's vast archive on black dance in America made him a leading figure in the dance world. It also may have helped kill him...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Inflation Pressures Ease Despite Jump in Energy and Food Costs
The stability of consumer prices provided relief for Wall Street, which was worried about faster Fed rate increases...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Trump attacks Ground Zero plans
New York billionaire Donald Trump wades into the crisis over the future of the World Trade Center site...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Fox meets US civil rights leader
Mexico's president meets a US civil rights leaders in an attempt to defuse tensions following remarks he made about black people...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Caracas 'to try bombing suspect'
Venezuela promises the US it will not hand over a Cuban exile wanted for a 1976 plane bombing to Fidel Castro's regime...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
'Star Wars': Last of epic series opens tonight
A piece of movie history is made with today's opening of "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith." Billed as the last episode in the most profitable movie series ever, "Sith" already is a formidable force. Movie industry analysts say total box office and merchandising revenue from all six "Star Wars" films could top $20 billion...
CNN - May 18, 2005
Heading toward showdown
After weeks of political wrangling, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday began debating one of President Bush's most controversial judicial picks -- Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen's nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
CNN - May 18, 2005
U.N. demands Uzbek shootings probe
The United Nations calls for an independent investigation into recent killings in Uzbekistan to assess reports of excessive use of force by authorities...
CNN - May 18, 2005
Senate Showdown on Judges and Filibusters Begins to Unfold
The Senate opened a long-awaited debate today to decide if the minority can block a president's nominees through filibuster...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
L.A. Elects Hispanic Mayor for First Time in Over 100 Years
Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa victory over Mayor James Hahn confirmed the rising political power of Latinos in L.A...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Urban Students Score Sizable Gains in N.Y. Literacy Test
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg portrayed the results as an election-year affirmation of his stewardship of the public schools...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
S.& P. Raises City's Rating on Debt to A+, Its Best Ever
Standard & Poor's, the credit rating agency, gave New York City its highest rating ever Tuesday...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Beijing Brushes Off U.S. Warning on Currency
A senior Chinese currency official said Washington should "put its own house in order before blaming others" for its trade deficits...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
CBS Cancels Wednesday Edition of '60 Minutes'
Eight months after broadcasting a report critical of President Bush that was later disavowed, CBS said today that it had canceled the Wednesday edition of "60 Minutes."...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Federal Reserve Governor Plans to Step Down
A governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Edward M. Gramlich, said today that he would resign from the board...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Inflation Pressures Ease Despite Jump in Food Costs
Surging food and energy costs pushed U.S. consumer prices up a hefty 0.5 percent in April, but outside those volatile areas prices were unexpectedly tame...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Pope greets Terri Schiavo family
The parents of Terri Schiavo, who lost their battle to keep their brain-damaged daughter alive, meet the Pope...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Fox to meet civil rights leaders
Mexico's president meets US civil rights leaders in an attempt to defuse tensions following remarks he made about black people...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Senate row provokes historic vote
God versus the filibuster is the latest strange alignment in US politics, writes the BBC's Justin Webb...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
'Person of interest' sought in Idaho triple slaying
Authorities have named a "person of interest" in a triple slaying and the disappearance of two children from an Idaho community. A lookout has been issued for 33-year-old Robert Roy Lutner and two pickup trucks. Police have not named Lutner as a suspect in the case, but believe he may have visited the victims' home...
CNN - May 18, 2005
The Mournful Math of Darfur: The Dead Don't Add Up
The politically charged task of counting the number of victims of the two-plus years of war in western Sudan seems to be a virtually impossible exercise...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Latino Defeats Incumbent in L.A. Mayor's Race
Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa unseated Mayor James Hahn to become the first Hispanic mayor in Los Angeles in more than a century...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Heated Efforts in Senate to Avoid Filibuster Clash
As attempts to avert a showdown appeared to fail, Senator Bill Frist planned to bring the nomination of a Texas Supreme Court justice to the Senate floor today...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Canada defection helps Liberals
A political defection boosts Canada's ruling Liberal Party just days before a crucial parliamentary vote...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Boxing: Ruiz regains title
John Ruiz is reinstated as WBA heavyweight champion after James Toney's positive test...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Tennis: Chile to face Argentina
Chile and Argentina will meet for a place in the final at the ATP World Team Cup...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Cricket: Windies play Pakistan
The West Indies will be looking to forget their South Africa nightmare when they play Pakistan at St Vincent...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
GE accused of race discrimination
General Electric is accused of passing over black managers for promotion and paying them less than their white counterparts...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
White House hits out at Newsweek
The White House says Newsweek's report on Koranic desecration has done "lasting damage" to the US' image...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Anti-Castro militant seized
Federal agents arrested Cuban exile leader Luis Posada Carriles near Miami Tuesday afternoon. Legendary among south Florida's Cuban community for his plots to kill Fidel Castro, the former CIA operative is wanted in Venezuela on charges that he blew up a Cuban airliner...
CNN - May 18, 2005
Missing kids sought after 3 bodies found in home
Investigators have no leads in a triple slaying at an Idaho home and have issued an Amber Alert for two children who lived there. The killings have shocked the quaint community of Coeur d'Alene and prompted massive searches for 9-year-old Dylan and 8-year-old Shasta Groene. Authorities say the children's mother, their 13-year-old brother and the mother's boyfriend were those found slain in the home...
CNN - May 18, 2005
U.S. Arrests Cuban Exile Accused in Deadly '76 Airline Bombing
Luis Posada Carriles, a suspect in a deadly airplane bombing and other attacks, had slipped into the United States weeks ago...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Adrift 500 Feet Down, a Minute Was an Eternity
A series of mistakes caused the San Francisco, a 6,900-ton submarine, to run into an undersea mountain not on its charts...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Steroid-Assisted Fastballs? Pitchers Face New Spotlight
The latest regimen of steroid testing in baseball revealed that 31 of 68 players suspended for violations were pitchers...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Foreign Gas Companies in Bolivia Face Sharply Higher Taxes
Bolivia's government will raise taxes on foreign energy companies, but the decision appeared to placate few...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Collins & Aikman Files for Creditor Protection
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Efforts Continue to Win Release of American in China
The arrest of an American business executive in China threatens to become another irritant in the increasingly fractious Chinese-American trade relationship...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Landlords Cashing Out as Condo Fever Spreads
Apartment building owners faced with dwindling returns are selling their properties to developers who want to convert rental units into condominiums...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
A California Native Sold on Lower Manhattan
Sometimes, even visionaries lack 20-20 sight...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Civil Suits Over Silica in Texas Become a Criminal Matter in New York
A federal grand jury has been convened in Manhattan to consider possible criminal charges arising out of civil litigation over exposure to silica and asbestos, according to lawyers involved in the civil cases...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Barnes & Noble Reports Drop of 13% in First-Quarter Profit
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Russia Has a New Plan to Win Control of Gazprom
Instead of merging Gazprom with the state-owned oil company Rosneft, as it initially planned, the Kremlin will use a more complicated deal structure...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Paul K. Keene, 94, Organic Farming Pioneer, Dies
Paul K. Keene ran Walnut Acres Farm in central Pennsylvania, and his products were among the first commercially available organic foods in the country...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
A Fast-Growing Independent Strikes Gold in Oil Refining
The chief executive of Valero Energy has turned the company from an obscure gas pipeline business into the nation's top independent oil refiner...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Reversal of Misfortune: Things Are Looking Up for a Bold Financier
For those who have followed Ronald Perelman's career as a financier, his sudden star turn as an aggrieved shareholder seems a curious twist of fate...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Scrushy Jury Told to Weigh the Facts, Not Feelings
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 17 - The judge in the trial of Richard M. Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, told jurors on Tuesday to "not consider any personal feelings about Mr. Scrushy's race, religion, wealth or lifestyle" as they prepared to deliberate...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Home Depot Says It Will Close Some of Its Upscale Expo Stores
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Europe Pressuring China to Limit Textile Exports
Peter Mandelson, the European Union's trade commissioner, called Tuesday for China immediately to curb exports of two important textile products...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
New Miniature Game Boy Due in Fall From Nintendo
It was expected to tell more about the successor to its GameCube console, but Nintendo had something else in store Tuesday, announcing a miniature version of its Game Boy Advance...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Ex-Officer of Tyco Ends Trial Defense
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Jury Hears Pleas About Penalty
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May 17 (Reuters) - The jury that ordered Morgan Stanley to pay the billionaire investor Ronald O. Perelman $604 million in damages heard arguments on Tuesday over how much more to tack on to punish the Wall Street firm for misleading him in a business deal that went sour...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Stun Gun Maker to Restate 2004 Earnings
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Democrats Push S.E.C. Official for Commission Seat
Democratic senators are pushing for the nomination of Annette L. Nazareth, director of market regulation at the Securities and Exchange Commission, for one of the five S.E.C. commissioners...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
ABC, Celebrating a Comeback, Says It Won't Rest on Its Laurels
At ABC's upfront presentation on Tuesday, advertising buyers were eager for a special moment with the stars of "Desperate Housewives."...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Market Rises on U.S. Move to Press China on Currency
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Earnings Surge at 2 Retailers
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Clothier's Suit Says Saks Abused Markdown Deductions
A clothing maker sued Saks Inc. yesterday for many millions of dollars, accusing the retailer's Saks Fifth Avenue chain of ruining its business through the abuse of markdown deductions...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Profit Dips at Morningstar
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
U.S. Chief Executives Fare Well in Job Security, Survey Finds
A survey of the world's biggest companies shows that the turnover of chief executives at American companies has held relatively steady for the last few years, while the pace of management departures has accelerated overseas...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Many Signs Pointing Up, With Inflation Among Them
WASHINGTON, May 17 (AP) - Wholesale prices are climbing, industrial production is faltering and housing construction is rebounding, offering mixed signals about the economy...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Toyota to Make Hybrid in U.S.
Toyota Motor plans to build a hybrid version of its Camry sedan in the U.S., the first gas-electric vehicle that the automaker will manufacture outside Japan...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Personal Data for the Taking
Students have proven that all it takes to obtain reams of personal data is Internet access, a few dollars and some spare time...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Amid Change in Leadership, Hewlett Profit Increased 9%
Mark Hurd's short stint as the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard received a symbolic boost as the company reported quarterly earnings that slightly exceeded expectations...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
CBS Expected to Broaden Programming Next Season
CBS is expected to tell advertisers that it hopes to broaden its appeal by adding at least five new dramas and three comedies to its schedule...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Chief of Unit Files Lawsuit Accusing G.E. of Racial Bias
A chief executive of a unit of General Electric filed a lawsuit yesterday accusing G.E. of underpaying African-American managers, denying them promotions and retaliating when they raise objections. He is seeking $450 million in damages...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Arms
The proposed national-security directive could move the U.S. closer to fielding offensive and defensive space weapons...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
U.S. Warns China About Currency
The White House threatened retaliation against China's exports if Chinese leaders did not change their currency policies...
New York Times - May 18, 2005
Protests fail to stop Bolivia law
Bolivia enforces big tax increases on foreign energy firms, despite large-scale popular protests...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
Brazil landless visit president
More than 12,000 farmers march in Brasilia to protest against the government's slow pace of land reform...
BBC News - May 18, 2005
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