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US News Archive for January 2006:
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Two West Virginia miners missing after fire
Rescue teams were combing a West Virginia coal mine Friday for two miners who got separated from their crew as they were exiting the mine because of a reported fire...
CNN - January 20, 2006
Pope gunman back in jail
The man who shot Pope John Paul II is back in jail, after an appeals court ruled that he should serve more time for the killing of a Turkish journalist and other crimes...
CNN - January 20, 2006
Rove: Security will be focus of 2006 campaigns
Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed Friday to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue in November and said Democratic senators looked "mean-spirited and small-minded" in questioning Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito...
CNN - January 20, 2006
In Preview of G.O.P. Campaign, Rove Tears Into Democrats
The president's chief political adviser urged Republicans to make national security the pre-eminent issue in 2006...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
U.S. Indicts 11 for Acts of Domestic Terrorism
The defendants are accused of acting on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Pentagon Analyst Gets 12 Years for Disclosing Data
Lawrence A. Franklin gave classified information to an Israeli diplomat and two members of a pro-Israel lobbying group...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
N.Y. Transit Workers Reject Deal That Ended 3-Day Strike
The extraordinarily close vote, a stunning defeat for the union's leader, raised anew the prospect of continued labor unrest...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Wachovia Reports 18% Profit Increase
The earnings by the regional bank holding company were propelled by growth in fees, deposits and loans...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Shares Turn Around on Brighter Technology Outlook
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
World Briefing: Asia and Europe
EUROPE...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Turning Asphalt to Gold
Inspired by an Australian bank little known outside its home country, Wall Street's best and brightest are looking to public infrastructure deals...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
[TS] Accounting Board Needs Whistle-Blower
The coming Enron trial probably won't spend much time on the institution that wrote the rules Enron violated - the Financial Accounting Standards Board...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Insider: By the Numbers: Hedge Funds and Half-Truths
Reliable numbers would offer an antidote to all the hedge funds hype, but gauging the sector's 2005 performance is no simple task...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Street Scene: From Russia to London, for Stock Listing
The Russian oil giant Rosneft will make its Western debut on the London Stock Exchange, in what may be one of the largest initial public offerings ever...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
India's Biggest Airline Is Buying Competitor for $500 Million
Jet Airways will buy its rival Air Sahara, in a move that indicates consolidation in an increasingly competitive airline market...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Anton Rupert, Industrialist and Philanthropist in Africa, Is Dead at 89
Anton Rupert rose from humble beginnings to become one of South Africa's most successful industrialists...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Advertising: Science Blogs as a Vehicle for Upscale Ads
A new blog network from the science publisher Seed Media Group is a sign of growing interest in using new media for an old purpose: selling...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Joint Venture Is Doubled
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Major Snag Affects Many Online Stock Listings
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Motorola Net Soars on Strong Phone Sales
By Reuters...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Writer Says Scrushy Paid Her to Write Favorable Articles
Audrey Lewis said the former chief executive of HealthSouth, Richard M. Scrushy, reviewed and paid her for articles she wrote in The Birmingham Times...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Sell a Crop and Get Help on Health Care
Cargill will offer tax-free health savings accounts to farmers who pledge to sell a portion of their grain to the grain marketing company...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
U.S. Cuts Duty on Cement From Mexico
The move was aimed at easing cement shortages caused by a building boom in Asia and rising demand for cement to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Tokyo Market Regains Its Composure, Closing Up 2.3% as Stock Plunge Ends
Executives of the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced plans to nearly double the system's capacity for trading and clearing stocks by year's end...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Konica Minolta, a Photo Giant, Quitting Cameras and Color Film
The company will concentrate resources on promising areas, like color copiers, liquid-crystal display materials, medical equipment and optical devices...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
December Housing Starts Declined Sharply
The fall reflected a slowing in the housing market from a peak last summer, according to the Commerce Department...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
U.S. Tries Simpler Tack Against Ex-Chief of Qwest
Instead of focusing on revenue inflation on Joseph P. Nacchio's watch, prosecutors will charge him with something easier for jurors to grasp: insider trading...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Paper Closes Reader Comments on Blog, Citing Vitriol
The blog on the Web site of The Washington Post drew personal attacks and profanity directed at the paper's ombudsman, Deborah Howell...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Merrill Posts Strong Quarter on Broad Surge in Business
Other Wall Street banks have reported strong results for the quarter and for 2005, but Merrill has in many ways progressed the most in the last year...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Marlboro Smokers' Group Names Philip Morris in Suit
An unusual lawsuit seeks to require Philip Morris USA to pay for low-dose CT scan tests to detect early-stage lung cancer...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Profit at Pfizer Falls by 3% as Sales Slow
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Profit Up at UnitedHealth
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Oil Prices Surge to 4-Month High; Stocks Fall Sharply
Oil prices rose on supply fears while stocks fell as Citigroup and General Electric reported weak results...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
G.E.'s Profit Plunges 46 percent in 4th Quarter
General Electric said its profit fell because of an insurance business that it is selling in a broader effort to return to the faster growth and fatter profits of years past...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Google Resists U.S. Subpoena of Search Data
The Justice Department says it wants records of search queries as part of an effort to uphold an online pornography law...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Guidant Debated Device Peril
Internal documents may suggest that the company debated alerting doctors six months before they publicly disclosed heart device short circuits...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Oil Markets Are Jittery Over Iran
The fate of the country's oil sector, which exports more than the world's current spare capacity, is on the minds of many oil analysts...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
Tomorrowland: Apple Chief Set for Disney Role
The sale of Pixar Animation Studios for more than $6.8 billion would make Steven P. Jobs a major shareholder and director at the Walt Disney Company...
New York Times - January 20, 2006
United released from bankruptcy
US carrier United Airlines has its plan with creditors approved by a US court and will leave bankruptcy protection on 1 February...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Pope gunman ordered back to jail
Turkish police are reported to have taken into custody the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 after an appeals court ordered his return to prison to serve more time for killing a journalist...
CNN - January 20, 2006
U.S. indicts 11 suspected of ecoterrorism
Federal prosecutors have indicted 11 people in a series of arsons in the Northwest that have been claimed by the radical groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, Justice Department officials said Friday...
CNN - January 20, 2006
GOP rank-and-file worried going into election season
A growing number of Republican voters are frustrated by congressional spending and scandal, according to GOP leaders from across the country who worry that an "enthusiasm deficit" could cost the party control of Congress in November...
CNN - January 20, 2006
Shiite alliance wins Iraq election
Iraqi election results showed gains by Sunni Arabs who stayed away from the polls last year and slight setbacks for the ruling Shiite and Kurdish blocs, who received fewer votes than they received in last January's transitional assembly election...
CNN - January 20, 2006
Canada polls get Asian flavour
Canada's multi-ethnic society is reflected in this general election where nearly 50 candidates are of South Asian origin...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Energy prices boost US sentiment
US consumer sentiment rises for the third month in a row, buoyed by energy price stabliity and better jobs data...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Insurance losses mar GE results
General Electric suffers a 3% fall in profits in 2005 as the US industrial giant is hit by losses from its insurance business...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
NFL: Final four in race for Bowl
Four NFL teams will be battling it out for a place in Super Bowl XL on Sunday...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
India nuclear deal faces problems
Top US official Nicholas Burns says after talks in Delhi that a landmark nuclear deal with India still faces difficulties...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Clashes lead to chaos in Ecuador
Students and police clash again in Ecuador, as protests against a possible bus fare rise cause chaos in Quito...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Blow to Pinochet in rights case
Chile's former military ruler is stripped of immunity from prosecution over allegations of rights abuses...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
US allows Cuba to play in Classic
The US government will permit a Cuban team to enter the inaugural World Baseball Classic...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Pentagon man jailed over spying
Former US defence department analyst Larry Franklin is jailed for over 12 years for passing secret information...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Russian freeze kills at least 38
Arctic temperatures gripping Russia pushed the reported death toll close to 40 on Friday as weather forecasters warned that no significant thaw is expected in Moscow before February. This winter is the coldest in Moscow since 1978-1979, when temperatures dropped to minus 38 C...
CNN - January 20, 2006
U.S. rejects bin Laden's 'truce' offer
U.S. officials have rejected a "truce" offer in an audiotaped message threatening the United States they believe is from Osama bin Laden. "We do not negotiate with terrorists," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "We put them out of business."...
CNN - January 20, 2006
Jolie's children get Pitt surname
The adopted children of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie can take on actor Brad Pitt's surname, a judge rules...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Tennis: Roddick into fourth round
Second seed Andy Roddick eases into the last 16 of the Australian Open with a 6-1 6-2 6-2 win over Julien Benneteau...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Parents sue over 'junk food' ads
Consumer groups and parents in the US are suing cereal maker Kellogg's and children's TV network Nickelodeon...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Menezes family angry over report
The Menezes family expresses anger at not receiving a copy of the independent report into the Brazilian's death...
BBC News - January 20, 2006
Father: Son Taliban but not terrorist
The father of American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh is campaigning to get his son released from prison. Frank Lindh says his son was wrongly maligned as a traitor and murderer. And he says his son was fighting with Taliban troops that the U.S. also supported before the September 11, 2001 attacks...
CNN - January 20, 2006
Russia in deadly deep freeze
Arctic temperatures gripping most of Russia pushed the death toll across the frozen country to more than 30 people and even hardy Russians struggled to cope with the big freeze. Temperatures in Moscow plunged to as low as minus-31 Celsius (minus-24 Fahrenheit)...
CNN - January 20, 2006
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