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US News Archive for January 2006:
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Flooded California gets more rain
The second major storm in two days washed across Northern California on Sunday, prolonging the threat of flooding as residents tried to clean up thick layers of mud and debris left behind as the first wave of floodwater receded...
CNN - January 1, 2006
Bush's early 2006 plan comes into focus
President Bush is starting his sixth year in office with a flurry of activity designed to trumpet upturns in the economy, defend U.S. action in Iraq and challenge critics who claim his methods of fighting terrorists infringe on civil liberties...
CNN - January 1, 2006
Italians revel in hostage releases
Italians rejoiced Sunday with the news that four of their countrymen had been released by separate groups of kidnappers in Yemen and Gaza...
CNN - January 1, 2006
The Army, Faced With Its Limits
One million men and women serve in the United States Army, so why is it proving nearly impossible to keep a mere 150,000 of them in Iraq?...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Dozens Wounded in Series of Baghdad Car Bombings
Eight car bombs exploded in rapid succession in Baghdad this morning, killing 2 people and wounding as many as 40, police officials said...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Bush Defends Legality of Domestic Spy Program
President Bush today also denied that he had misled the public last year when he asserted that any government wiretap required a court order...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
As He Begins Second Term, Bloomberg Looks Beyond 9/11
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today celebrated the city's post-attack recovery and embraced his electoral mandate during a boisterous swearing-in ceremony...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Hostages freed in Gaza and Yemen
An Italian man who was abducted in the Gaza town of Khan Yunis has been released, Palestinian security sources say. Meanwhile, three of five Italian hostages kidnapped in Yemen have been freed, Yemeni's state-run news agency reports...
CNN - January 1, 2006
As New Drug Plan Begins, Stores Predict Bumps
Millions of Americans will gain access to government-subsidized prescription drugs today with the long-awaited expansion of Medicare...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
The Bush Legacy: 2006 Is So Yesterday
President Bush made it clear that even with three years to go, he already regards his presidency as a big one in the sweep of American history...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Fireworks and parties usher in 2006
New Yorkers gather in Times Square at midnight, as people around the world see in 2006...
BBC News - January 1, 2006
Zapatistas start political tour
Mexico's Zapatista rebels set off on a six-month tour intended to build a national leftist movement...
BBC News - January 1, 2006
Russia cuts gas to Ukraine
Russia's state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom has begun shutting down supplies of natural gas to Ukraine, according to the Russian news agency Interfax...
CNN - January 1, 2006
World welcomes in 2006
Time zone by time zone, the world has ushered in 2006: Londoners ignored a subway strike to welcome the New Year, some Japanese climbed a snowcapped peak to see the first sunrise of 2006, while GIs in Iraq received a year-end "American Idol" treat...
CNN - January 1, 2006
The nation rings in 2006
Thousands of New Year's Eve revelers ignored the sleet and snow and packed into Times Square with their "2006" glasses, waving balloons and working noisemakers for the famous ball drop and countdown of the final minutes of 2005...
CNN - January 1, 2006
Justice Deputy Resisted Parts of Spy Program
The top deputy to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft refused two years ago to approve important parts of the secret eavesdropping program...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
The Boss: Details Man to the Rescue
Roy Berger is the president of MedjetAssist of Birmingham, Ala...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Dealbook: Cheers to Deals That Fizzed (or Fizzled)
Welcome to the annual DealBook "closing dinner," celebrating the year in deal making - the biggest one since 2000...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
New Jersey: Totally Wired
With billions at stake, Verizon and cable companies battle for control of New Jersey's television sets...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
The Public Editor: Behind the Eavesdropping Story, a Loud Silence
The New York Times's explanation of its decision to report, after what it said was a one-year delay, that the National Security Agency is eavesdropping domestically without court-approved warrants was woefully inadequate...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
The Little Channel That Could
For NY1 News, the city's scrappy and sometimes charmingly dorky round-the-clock cable station, the recent transit strike was a golden moment...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Armchair M.B.A.: Novel Thinking as a Survival Tactic
Success in the future may mean forgetting the strategies of today...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Business: Ready for Everything Under the Solar Panel
In 2005, alternative, or renewable, energy vaulted the highly fortified border separating cottage industry and big business...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Talking Money: Bankruptcy? Tougher Than Counseling a Soprano
For Lorraine Bracco, an actress on "The Sopranos," bankruptcy has underscored the importance of financial independence...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
A Tenacious Broker Who Avoids the Pack
IT is true that Studley, the commercial real estate brokerage firm, produced a coffee-table book in November for its clients containing offbeat photographs of New York, and that one shows a dead dog...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul's Cause When Disaster Hits
Robbing Peter...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
The Goods: Orange Juice in Its Original Carton
THE United States is hardly alone in having a surfeit of overly chubby children. The World Health Organization estimates that a tenth of children ages 5 to 17 worldwide are overweight, and that 30 million to 45 million qualify as obese...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Economic View: A Bit of Doodling About a Tax-Cut Danger
A recent paper from the Congressional Budget Office may be one of the most important government publications in years...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Techno Files: Working at the PC Isn't So Lonely Anymore
If the history of communications shows anything, it is that the demand for connectedness is limitless...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Strategies: Maybe the Stock Pickers Have Gone Fishing
A new study finds that stock picking accounts for a small and declining proportion of the market's overall trading volume...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Everybody's Business: Master of the Art Of Taming Inflation
In Greenspan, the markets found a firm but not frightening parent...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Market Week: At the Outset, It's a Matter of Mood
THE first week of the year may begin with traders following their hearts and end with them following their heads...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
Suits: Most-Admired C.E.O. Is Not an Oxymoron
Movie stars, supermodels and even high school students have their own popularity contests, so why not chief executives? Burson-Marsteller, the public relations firm, recently teamed up with the Economist Intelligence Unit to fill that yawning gap in human knowledge by surveying 685...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
[TS] The Big Winner, Again, Is 'Scandalot'
While business titans' transgressions may have lacked creativity last year, at least the cast of "Scandalot 2005" involved a few new characters...
New York Times - January 1, 2006
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