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Obama, McCain bury campaign pain, vow cooperation
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Obama, McCain bury sour campaign, vow cooperation
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Saks posts bigger-than-expected 3Q loss
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Obama, McCain pledge to work together for reform
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Astronauts end spacewalk marred by lost tool bag
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Astronauts end space walk marred by lost tool bag
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Ballmer dismisses Yahoo buyout but open on search
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Indian navy sinks suspected pirate mother ship
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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UN Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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US News Archive for September 2007:
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Spector jury deadlocked
The jury in the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector has told the judge that it is unable to reach a verdict. He was charged with second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson, 40. full story...
CNN - September 18, 2007
1.6 million flee as typhoon pounds China
A typhoon expected to be the most powerful storm to hit China in a decade is churning toward the densely populated coast, forcing 1.6m people to flee. full story...
CNN - September 18, 2007
Obama tax plan: $80 billion in cuts, fast filings
Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed overhauling the tax code to lower taxes for the poor and middle class, increase them for the rich and make it so most Americans can file their taxes in five minutes. full story...
CNN - September 18, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Rudy vs. MoveOn, Another Round
More in the escalating arms race between Rudolph W. Giuliani and MoveOn.org...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Traffic Congestion Is Getting Worse, Study Says
Drivers who commute between New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are wasting more time and money sitting in traffic, according to a new study...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
City Room: Soldier Took Bullet to Avoid Iraq
Private Jonathan Aponte, 20, admitted that he arranged to have himself shot in the knee to avoid returning to military service in Iraq...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
The Lede: Is the O.J. Tape More Than Luck?
The ex-wife of one of the robbery suspects says it is quite common for people around O.J. Simpson to have a tape rolling. Mr. Simpson was charged with eight felony counts today...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Judge Orders Publisher to Leave Job for a Year
The ruling against Par Ridder of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis is a victory for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which had accused its former publisher of misusing proprietary information...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Labor Talks With G.M. Continue Without Pact
Negotiations between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers resumed today, and union leaders told members they faced tough decisions...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Lawyer Will Plead Guilty in Kickback Scheme
Under a plea deal, William S. Lerach may face up to two years in prison...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Intel Previews a New Family of Power-Saving Chips
The new architecture, code-named Nehalem, will use as many as eight processing cores, and offer better graphics and memory control processing...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
IPhone Enters Its European Phase
Steve Jobs, Apple?s chief executive, said the iPhone would become available to British consumers in November in an exclusive arrangement with O2...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Bank of England Offers New Infusion of Loans
The central bank doubled the amount of emergency loans made available to British banks caught short in the global credit squeeze...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Lehman Profits Fall, but Give Wall Street a Lift
The investment bank said third-quarter profit fell less than expected, as strength in stock trading and investment banking offset losses from the mortgage market...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Markets Soar After Fed Cuts Key Rate by a Half Point
The Dow gained 2.5 percent after the Fed?s forceful move, which was intended to limit the damage from the disorder in the housing and credit markets...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Stun gun used at Kerry debate
US police use a stun gun to restrain a student taking part in a debate with former presidential candidate John Kerry...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
Prosecution rests in polygamist's trial
Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is accused of being an accomplice to rape for allegedly using his authority to coerce a 14-year-old follower into a marriage she did not want. full story...
CNN - September 18, 2007
Relatives to identify dead in Phuket
Relatives of the 89 people killed in Sunday's plane crash in Phuket continued to arrive in the Thai resort town to try to identify their loved ones' remains. full story...
CNN - September 18, 2007
Mukasey nomination hailed as 'above politics'
The nomination of retired Judge Michael Mukasey for attorney general drew praise from Democrats and may help overcome some of the enmity left behind by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. full story...
CNN - September 18, 2007
The Lede Blog: The Lede: Political Martyrdom via YouTube
Andrew Meyer gets tasered in front of John Kerry and the Web responds...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
City Room: Spitzer?s Popularity Is Slipping
A new poll finds that a majority of state voters who have heard about the so-called Troopergate scandal want Gov. Eliot Spitzer to be more forthright about the matter and to testify under oath about it...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
The Caucus: Cheney Enters Fray Over MoveOn Ad
Also Steph Jespersen, director of advertising acceptability at The Times, answers questions about the "General Betray Us" ad...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
More 9/11 Lawsuits Are Settled
As 14 families of people killed in hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001, have settled their lawsuits against the airlines, they have left the future of the remaining cases in doubt...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Goal Blog: U.S. Women?s World Cup Team Wins
Playing in a steady rain from an approaching typhoon, the U.S. Women?s World Cup team defeated Nigeria, 1-0, and will play England in the quarterfinal on Saturday...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Congressman Says State Dept. Blocked Inquiries
A House committee alleged that the State Department?s inspector general blocked fraud investigations...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
More Than 1, 000 Monks Protest in Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Hundreds of defiant monks marched through Yangon on Tuesday, walking 10 miles through streets lined with cheering crowds, after being barred from Myanmar's most important Buddhist temple, witnesses said...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Man in the News: A Washington Outsider With Many Sides
Michael B. Mukasey is not a movement conservative, but he is likely to back the White House on security...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Kroger Quarterly Profit Rises 28%
The 2nd-quarter results topped analyst expectations and the grocery chain raised its outlook for the year...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
On the road: Some Volatile Opinions About Volatile Liquids
For last week?s column, I asked the T.S.A. to describe its rationale for its rules for carrying liquids. And oh, did the e-mail messages pour in...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
MySpace to Discuss Effort to Customize Ads
The social network site says it can tailor ads to the personal information that its users leave on their pages...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
American Express to Sell Banking Unit
The company said it is selling the unit to Standard Chartered for nearly $1.1 billion so it can focus on its core credit card business...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Stocks Advance Ahead of Fed
Stocks rose in early trading as Wall Street, heartened by upbeat investment bank earnings, awaited the Federal Reserve?s meeting on interest rates...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Best Buy Profit Up 8.7%
The consumer electronics retailer said 2nd-quarter profit rose to $250 million on strong international results and tighter spending controls...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Producer Prices Fall 1.4% in August
But a rise in vehicle and prescription drug prices pushed the rate of core producer inflation ? excluding food and energy ? up 0.2 percent for the month, a slight acceleration from July...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Lehman Profit Dips 3.2% on Credit Woes
The investment bank said 3rd-quarter profit fell less than expected, as strength in stock trading and investment banking offset losses from the mortgage market...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Main contenders
A guide to the candidates planning to succeed George Bush in one of the most open elections in US history...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
Profit falls at Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers, the first of the big US investment banks to report results, unveils a dip in quarterly profits...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
State loses car climate-link case
California loses a high-profile court case against carmakers over the alleged damage caused by CO2 emissions...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
Blackwater: Iraq battle was self-defense
Iraqi officials condemn the weekend killings of eight civilians during a Baghdad street battle involving American security contractors and say they will shut down Blackwater, the company involved. Blackwater says its employees acted in self-defense. full story...
CNN - September 18, 2007
Lawyer Offers Musharraf Power Plan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will step down as army chief only after he is re-elected as president, a government lawyer said Tuesday. The plan was denounced by exiled opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's party as unconstitutional...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Foreclosures Surged 36% in August, Report Says
The sharp increases provide more evidence that the troubles in the housing and mortgage markets may prove long-lived...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
U.S. Contractor Banned by Iraq Over Shootings
Baghdad?s authority to bar Blackwater USA, a security company that was involved in the deaths of eight Iraqis, appeared to be in question...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Still no contract for GM workers
United Auto Workers members at GM will continue working with no new contract after talks were adjourned...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
Boxing: Insults traded
Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather fire early shots ahead of their welterweight bout in December...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
Abandoned girl sparks global hunt
Police in Australia, New Zealand and the US search for the parents of a toddler left at a train station in Australia...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
Rio drugs probe nets 52 officers
Police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro arrest 52 colleagues suspected of ties to drugs gangs...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
Simpson could be charged 'within days'
Prosecutors said they anticipate filing charges "within the next few days," against O.J. Simpson and other defendants in an alleged armed robbery involving sports memorabilia. full story...
CNN - September 18, 2007
Democrats Use Confirmation to Press Bush
Two senators are seeking White House files in exchange for confirming Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
The Return of the Snowman
A scan of the videos submitted for the Republican YouTube debate so far shows the candidates have little to fear...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Wary of Past, Clinton Unveils a Health Plan
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton released a plan for universal health coverage designed to avoid the political flaws of her failed proposal in 1993-94...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Advertising: Moving Downtown: AOL Seeks New Image
AOL will move its headquarters from Dulles, Va., next spring as tries to retool itself as an advertising company that competes with the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Books of the Times: Economist?s Life, Scored With Jazz Theme
?The Age of Turbulence? is really two books, one of which I suspect Alan Greenspan preferred writing and one of which he understood his audience would prefer reading...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Adobe Exceeds Profit Expectations
Adobe Systems, the world?s largest maker of design software, reported quarterly results and targets ahead of Wall Street expectations on strong sales of its updated suite of products...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Homes Sell, With Discounts
NEWARK, Sept. 17 (AP) ? The home builder Hovnanian Enterprises claimed ?huge success? on Monday with its weekend sales blitz, which included six-figure discounts on homes being built or completed in 19 states...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Two Fired Grocery Executives Face Federal Fraud Charges
SYRACUSE, Sept. 17 (AP) ? Two fired executives of the Penn Traffic Company, a regional grocer, have been charged with fraud, federal regulators said Monday...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Crude Oil Price Climbs to Another Record
Oil soared to another record yesterday on worries that global energy supplies could shrink to critical levels during this winter heating season because of strong growth in demand...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Paetec to Get Bigger
Paetec Holding said it would buy the privately held McLeodUSA, which manages high-capacity fiber networks, for $492 million in stock...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Some Volatile Opinions About Volatile Liquids
For last week?s column, I asked the T.S.A. to described its rationale for its rules for carrying liquids. And oh, did the e-mail messages pour in...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Mortgage Turmoil Hits E*Trade Hard, Prompting Earnings Warning
The online brokerage lowered its full-year forecast, sending shares plummeting 8.5 percent in extended trade...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Shares Fall as Credit Worries Resurge
Stocks fell yesterday as heavy withdrawals from the British bank Northern Rock reignited concern over the cost of credit and sent the Standard & Poor?s 500-stock index down for the first time in five days...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
NovaStar Ending its Status as a REIT
The troubled subprime mortgage lender said that it was giving up its status as a real estate investment trust because it could not afford the $157 million dividend it would have to pay to maintain the status...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
John Swearingen, Oil Executive, is Dead at 89
Swearingen was the most powerful oil executive of his generation and a highly visible defender of the industry during the energy crisis of the 1970s...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Suit Blaming Automakers Over Gases Is Dismissed
A federal judge ruled that the courts do not have the authority or the expertise to decide injury lawsuits concerning global warming...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Extinction Is at Hand for Paper Airline Tickets
Replacing paper tickets with electronic ticketing will save airlines $3 billion annually on the roughly 400 million tickets sold outside of the United States alone...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
SpongeBob Pushes Deeper Into Electronics Aisle
Nickelodeon is introducing a line of consumer electronics branded with personalities from some of its most popular shows...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
The move comes two years to the day after The New York Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Yahoo Buying Zimbra, an E-Mail Service for Businesses
The deal, for $350 million in cash and stock, is the second sizable acquisition Yahoo has announced this month...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
U.S. Working on Its Welcome
Complaints from foreign business and leisure travelers have led the United States government to take steps to improve the treatment of travelers upon arrival...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
New York State and City Sue Merck Over Vioxx
A lawsuit filed Monday attempts to recoup tens of millions spent by government-financed health programs to purchase the painkiller and to treat patients for its side effects...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Official Assurances Fail to Stem Rush of Withdrawals at British Bank
Panicky customers of Northern Rock have withdrawn £2 billion ($4 billion), since the bank acknowledged Friday that it could no longer raise money because of the credit squeeze...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Effort to Get Companies to Disclose Climate Risk
A coalition of environmental activists and investors are asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to require companies to disclose the risks that climate change may pose to their bottom lines...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Europe Reconsiders Plan to Relax Consumer Product Safety Rules
With the recalls of toys by Mattel and others, the European Union is taking a second look at whether its safety regulations are adequate...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Labor Talks With G.M. Are Recessed Without Pact
Negotiations between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers stalled Monday night, as bargainers again went home without reaching a tentative agreement on a new contract...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Paulson Cautions Against Rush to Regulation in Credit Crisis
The Treasury secretary said that turmoil in the world?s financial markets could continue for some time, but he cautioned against hasty introduction of new regulations...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Google to Sell Web-Page Ads Visible on Mobile Phones
The company said that its new product would establish a cellphone advertising network in which Google would match ads with the content of mobile Web pages...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to Microsoft?s Line
The company plans to announce the creation of I.B.M. Lotus Symphony, free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
MySpace to Discuss Latest Effort to Customize Ads for Members
The Web?s largest social network says it can tailor ads to the personal information that its 110 million active users leave on their profile pages...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Some Toy Makers Shun the China Label
With the American toy industry reeling from recalls of millions of Chinese-made toys, some of Europe?s best-known toy makers find themselves in a fortuitous position...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
U.S. Contractor Banned by Iraq Over Shooting
The Iraqi government?s authority to bar Blackwater USA, a security company that was involved in the deaths of eight Iraqis, appeared to be in question...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Debt Market Looks to Fed to Restore Confidence
Investors assume that the central bank will reduce the overnight federal funds rate by at least a quarter of a percentage point, to 5 percent. But many market analysts say that will not be enough to restore confidence...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Guilty Plea Is Expected in Kickbacks at Law Firm
William S. Lerach has been under investigation over an alleged scheme to pay plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Microsoft Ruling May Bode Ill for Other Companies
Experts said a European antitrust ruling might signal problems for companies like Apple, Intel and Qualcomm...
New York Times - September 18, 2007
Venezuela head's school warning
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warns private schools they face closure unless they adopt a socialist curriculum...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
Life in jail for Mexico drugs man
A member of Mexico's Tijuana drugs cartel will be jailed for life by a US court for his role in narco-business...
BBC News - September 18, 2007
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