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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Pakistan to deport all Afghans from tribal region
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking aid
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Colbert on Colbert Its fun playing a jerk
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Dancing with the Stars contestant injured
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hopper stars in Starz series Crash
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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US News Archive for December 2007:
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Bush Approves Army Reorganization
President Bush signed off on a plan that will keep more troops than previously envisioned in Europe and add large numbers of soldiers to bases in Colorado, Georgia and Texas...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
The Lede Blog: Media Frenzy Over a Teenage Pregnancy
Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's younger sister and the star of "Zoey 101" on Nickelodeon, acknowledges to a celebrity-gossip magazine that she's expecting a child, and the gossip floodgates open...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
City Room: City Council Approves Columbia Expansion Plan
The 17-acre, $7 billion project will be the largest Manhattan development project in recent memory...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
U.S. Acts to Ease Crunch at New York-Area Airports
The number of flights per hour at Kennedy and Newark will be capped at peak times in an effort to ease congestion...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Romney Refocuses on His Business Experience
In Iowa and New Hampshire, Mitt Romney is subtly shifting away from the more ideological frame that has often times been at the forefront of the campaign...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Fledgling ?Fire Isiah? Movement Takes to the Streets
Outside Madison Square Garden, a small group of Knicks fans voiced their dissatisfaction with the team?s coach, Isiah Thomas. Inside the arena, that message can get one ejected...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Congress Votes to Spare Millions From Alternative Tax
By 352 to 64, the House voted to shield about 21 million Americans from being hit by the alternative minimum tax...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
State of the Art: Purging a Columnist?s Conscience (and His Closet)
Reviewing some unreviewed products before the dust on their boxes gets too thick...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Tribune Chief to Step Down After Sale
Dennis J. FitzSimons will step down as chairman and chief executive of Tribune Company as soon as an $8.2 billion takeover deal is completed, the company said...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Sallie Shares Plunge After Statements by Chief
Shares dropped to a five-year low after the student lender?s chief executive, Albert L. Lord, said a dividend cut may be needed to bolster finances hurt by loan defaults and borrowing costs...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
New Business Helps Oracle to a Strong Quarter
The business software company surpassed Wall Street?s projections as the company reported a sharp rise in new software licenses...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Strong Turnout for Fed Auction
The Federal Reserve said that it had collected 93 bids on $20 billion in 28-day loans in its first auction of short-term credit...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
S.&P. Cuts Rating on Bond Insurer
The move by Standard & Poor?s could force Merrill Lynch, CIBC and other investment banks to write down the value of securities they had bought insurance on by billions of dollars...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Stocks Finish Mixed on Credit Worries
Wall Street waffled as investors wrestled with a troubling outlook for bond insurers, a $9.4 billion write-down at Morgan Stanley and a weakening economy...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Web giants settle gambling claims
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo pay $31.5m to settle claims they accepted adverts promoting illegal gambling...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
US Senate backs war fund
The US Congress backs a huge federal budget, bowing to President Bush's call for extra Afghan and Iraq funds...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Bush signs energy bill into law
President George W. Bush signs into law a bill designed to improve fuel economy and reduce US demand for oil...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Brazil dam given court go-ahead
Brazil's Supreme Court backs a $2bn river irrigation scheme, despite a Catholic bishop's hunger strike...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Dot Earth: The (Energy) Future Is Not Now
The FutureGen Alliance finally announced the site of what would be America's first utility-scale zero-emissions coal-powered electrical plant. But there are those who doubt that this magic bullet will ever work...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
The Lede Blog: The Lede: Fire Near White House Extinguished
The fire is under control and no injuries were reported at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Reid?s Relationship With Bush Enters Deep Freeze
Scholars and historians are taking note of an uncommonly antagonistic relationship between Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, and President Bush...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Bush Signs Broad Energy Bill
The bill sets higher fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks by law for the first time in 32 years...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
City Room: Subway and Bus Fare Increase Approved by M.T.A.
The base fare will remain $2, but the great majority of riders will pay more for their multiple-ride MetroCards...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A. Tapes
The Bush administration said that it had not misled the public about the role of White House lawyers in discussions on whether to destroy interrogation tapes...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
CarMax Profit Falls Amid Cost Increases
The largest U.S. retailer of used cars posted a lower quarterly profit and cut its outlook for the year, hurt by increased funding costs related to its auto finance unit...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
General Mills Posts Higher 2nd-Quarter Profit
The cereal and packaged foods company earned $390.5 million as revenue growth offset rising ingredient costs, marketing spending and recall expenses...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Bush Signs Broad Energy Bill
The president signed into law legislation that will bring more fuel-efficient vehicles into auto showrooms and require wider use of ethanol...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Tribune Chief Executive to Resign After Buyout
Dennis FitzSimons will step down as soon as the $8.2 billion buyout of the media conglomerate closes and will leave the company at the end of the year, the company said...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Fed Gives $20 Billion to Banks in Credit Crisis
The Federal Reserve is providing the loans as part of an unprecedented auction process to ease a global credit crisis and make sure financial institutions can keep lending to customers...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Stocks Turn Lower on Credit Worries
Wall Street fell after ratings agencies gave investors reason to believe that the credit markets might remain tight for longer than expected...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Morgan Stanley to Sell Stake to China Amid Loss
The bank said it would sell a $5 billion stake to China?s sovereign wealth fund as it posted a loss after taking a new $5.7 billion write-down related to mortgages...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Morgan Stanley takes $9.4bn hit
Morgan Stanley unveils a $9.4bn write-down and sells a $5bn stake to a Chinese sovereign wealth fund...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Big demand for Fed credit issue
Banks queue up to tap the $20bn credit issued by the US Federal Reserve, aimed at easing money markets...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Adoptions in Guatemala
A look at adoptions from Guatemala to the US, which critics describe as a baby trade but which others defend...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Cuban dissident calls for amnesty
A leading dissident asks Cuba's parliament for an amnesty for political prisoners, and to allow Cubans to travel freely...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Half of Mexicans in US 'illegal'
More than half of the 11 million Mexicans living in the US are there illegally, according to Mexican government figures...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Magazine Preview: The Clinton Referendum
Democratic voters have conflicted feelings about the Clinton White House years. How they judge that era ? politically as well as emotionally ? may well decide the race for the party?s presidential nomination...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Lee Set for Victory in South Korea
Exit polls say a former construction executive nicknamed the ?Bulldozer? overcame doubts about his ethics and won South Korea?s presidential election...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Magna Carta Copy Sold
A 710-year-old copy of the declaration of human rights known as the Magna Carta ? the version that became part of English law ? was auctioned Tuesday for $21.3 million...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Economy Key in South Korea Election
As South Koreans headed to the polls for their country?s presidential election on Wednesday, voters appeared ready to choose Lee Myung-bak, a pro-business candidate...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
US chain settles data leak case
US retailer TJX, which owns TJ Maxx and TK Maxx, reaches an out-of-court deal over a credit card data breach...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Cuba kept out of cricket series
Cuba are blocked from playing in their first ever international cricket tournament because of the US embargo...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
UN peace missions in fraud probe
The UN is probing allegations of contracts fraud amounting to $610m involving some peace missions in Africa...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
POW review for Bin Laden driver
A US military judge agrees to consider whether Osama Bin Laden's ex-driver, held at Guantanamo, is a prisoner of war...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Uruguay approves gay civil unions
Uruguay's Congress approves a bill which could make it the first Latin American country to allow civil unions...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
France 'to take in' Farc rebels
France says it is willing to take in Colombian Farc rebels if they are freed in exchange for hostages...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
Pogue's Posts Blog: Gadgets With the Blind in Mind
What can manufacturers do to make devices more accessible to the blind?...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
The Caucus Blog: On the Road, Flying Romney Air
The traveling press rolls out on a jet for the first time in the Romney campaign...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Fehr and Selig to Begin Talks on Mitchell Report
The players? union has agreed to discuss findings from Mitchell?s report on performance-enhancing drugs...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Senate Adds $70 Billion for Wars in Spending Bill
The money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was added to a sweeping year-end budget bill...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star
Walter H. G. Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., has found devotees across the country with his online lectures...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Huckabee Now a Candidate With Something to Lose
Mike Huckabee is attempting a tough political transition: from also-ran to novelty act to overnight leader, with all the scrutiny that brings...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Enron Case Settled
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay creditors of the Enron Corporation $25 million to settle a lawsuit related to transactions between the companies...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Ticketmaster Signs Resale Deal With N.F.L.
In another push into the lucrative secondary ticket market, the company plans to introduce a Web site next year that can be used to resell tickets to pro football games...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Illinois Town Chosen as Site for New Type of Coal Plant
An industry consortium planning a coal plant that will capture its carbon dioxide and pump it underground has chosen a site near Mattoon, Ill., for the $1.5 billion project...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Shares Rise on European Cash Infusion
Stocks ended a jittery session higher as investors found solace in the E.C.B.?s $500 billion loan issuance and profit gains at Goldman Sachs and Best Buy...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Palm Posts a Loss After Revenue Slides
The smartphone maker said Tuesday that it swung to a loss in its fiscal second quarter as revenue fell and expenses rose...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Hovnanian, Home Builder, Posts Wider Loss
For the fiscal fourth quarter, Hovnanian reported a net loss of $7.42 a share, compared with a net loss of $1.88 a share in the year-ago quarter...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Newsday and Hoy Settle Circulation Case for $15 Million
Newsday had acknowledged that between 2000 and 2004, it inflated its circulation by nearly 100,000 copies on weekdays and Sundays...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Sprint Nextel Hires a Chief From Its Spinoff
The cellphone company, which lost more than a million customers in the last five quarters, named Daniel R. Hesse as chief executive on Tuesday...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Square Feet: Seminary?s Renovation Juggles the Old, the New and the Financial
The General Theological Seminary in Chelsea has been on the same site in Manhattan for almost two centuries, and this is both a blessing and a burden...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Disappointing Earnings Send Darden Lower
The parent of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains reported a nearly 30 percent drop in its quarterly net earnings on Tuesday...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
G.M. to Start Another Round of Buyouts and Seek Cheaper Labor
The buyout offers would allow the auto giant to begin hiring new workers for significantly less pay...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Game Maker Expects a Loss
Take-Two Interactive Software said Tuesday that it cut its quarterly net loss in half, but gave an outlook that fell short of Wall Street?s expectations...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Best Buy Posts 52% Higher Profit
Nonetheless, shares fell 65 cents, to $50.48, as the company said results in the current quarter would be pressured by calendar changes...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
After Decade, Chief Plans to Retire at Eli Lilly
The drug maker Eli Lilly said on Tuesday that Sidney Taurel will retire as chief executive on March 31...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Housing Starts Decline 3.7%
The housing market, in its deepest rut since the early 1990s, is likely to get worse in the near term, economists said...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Lawyer for Refco Charged in Fraud
Joseph P. Collins, 57, of the law firm Mayer Brown, faces 11 counts including securities fraud, wire fraud and filing false statements with federal regulators...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
System to Track Cloned Animals Is Planned
Responding to concerns in the food industry, companies developing cloned livestock have come up with a system to track the animals as they move through farms and slaughterhouses...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Jimmy Kimmel to Return to Air Without Writers
Mr. Kimmel said he would resume production to ensure that his nonwriting staff members keep their jobs...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Economic Scene: No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions
?Overtreated,? by Shannon Brownlee is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve ? but is so often misunderstood...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Terrorism Damage Bill Is Passed by House
The House approved a government insurance program on Tuesday that commits Washington to paying for most of the damage in the event of a terrorist attack in the next seven years...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
E.C.B. Makes $500 Billion Infusion
The European Central Bank on Tuesday pumped 348 billion euros ($500 billion) into the financial system, easing conditions in credit markets...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Square Feet: Manhattan Market Dips, but Parts Remain Rarefied
The credit squeeze has even affected the office market in red-hot Manhattan, as prices have declined because loans are not being made freely...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Advertising: Laugh at the Web Clips, Then Buy the Gel
With the increasing interest among marketers in embedding brands in entertainment programming, a viral campaign is arriving that spoofs the concept ? while at the same time playing up the product...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Silver Lake Partners to Buy a Quarter of Research Firm
Silver Lake Partners has agreed to acquire a quarter of the Gerson Lehrman Group, the upstart Wall Street research firm that has come under scrutiny from regulators...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
A Producer of Movies to Try Hand at Games
On Wednesday Jerry Bruckheimer?s company will announce a deal with MTV to develop video games, which would probably start appearing on store shelves in 2009...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
House, 314-100, Passes Broad Energy Bill; Bush Plans to Sign It
The legislation would slowly but significantly change the cars Americans drive, the fuel they burn, the way they light their homes and the price they pay for food...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Goldman?s Record Year Ends With Modest Gain
Yet investors are growing increasingly worried that Goldman Sachs will fail to match its 2007 performance next year...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Banks Study Bailing Out Struggling Bond Insurer
Officials from Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and other major banks are in talks to bail out ACA Capital Holdings, according to two people briefed on the situation...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Insurers Seek Bigger Reach in Coverage
The insurance industry plans on Wednesday to propose a series of steps the companies say would let more individuals obtain coverage...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Pension Fund Shortages Create Hard Choices
Almost half of the states may have to choose in the years ahead between their pension obligations and other public programs...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
In Reversal, Fed Approves Plan to Curb Risky Lending
The new rules would force companies to show that customers can realistically afford their mortgages...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
F.C.C. Reshapes Rules Limiting Media Industry
The Federal Communications Commission set new parameters on Tuesday for the size and scope of the largest news and cable companies...
New York Times - December 19, 2007
Argentina 'dirty war' sentences
Eight officials, including a former army chief, are sentenced for abuses during Argentina's military dictatorship...
BBC News - December 19, 2007
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