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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Astronauts step out for longest, hardest spacewalk
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Zimbabwe rejects Carter, Annan, Machel
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Romes chaos and crime meets its would-be Giuliani
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Jetliner plot suspect believed killed in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Economy, not rights, rules the new China-US world
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for July 2005:
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House Beats Back Challenges to Patriot Act
The House moved toward permanently extending virtually all the key antiterrorism provisions of the USA Patriot Act...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
New York Starts to Inspect Bags on the Subways
In response to the London bombings, riders at some of the city's busiest subway stations will be asked to open their bags for a check...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Starwood to Buy Luxury Brands
Starwood Capital Group agreed yesterday to buy a controlling stake in Taittinger and Société du Louvre, the French luxury companies...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
U.S. Calls Revaluation a Good Start for Beijing
The Bush administration welcomed China's move toward a more flexible currency, but the cautious shift may not be enough to cool the anti-China sentiments in Congress...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Maytag rejects higher bid offer
Hoover maker Maytag backs a takeover bid from private equity group Ripplewood, despite a higher offer from rival Whirlpool...
BBC News - July 22, 2005
Troubled Delta sees losses narrow
Delta Air Lines, the troubled US carrier which is fighting to stave off bankruptcy, reports narrower quarterly losses...
BBC News - July 22, 2005
Armed gang raids Peru gold mine
Robbers in Peru shoot dead two people and steal more than $1m of gold and silver from a mine in the south of the country...
BBC News - July 22, 2005
For Two Aides in Leak Case, 2nd Issue Rises
In July 2003, Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby Jr. were working closely together to ascertain the truth of an Iraq-Africa tie...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
In His Opinions, Nominee Favors Judicial Caution
A look at the published opinions of Judge John G. Roberts reveals a philosophy that favors a cautious and self-effacing judiciary...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
It's Armstrong's Final Chapter, and Cycling's Muddled Epilogue
Fans and competitors are already looking ahead to a world without Lance Armstrong...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Times Co. and Dow Jones Post Profit Declines
The New York Times Company and Dow Jones & Company reported declines in second-quarter profit because of sluggishness in the newspaper advertising market...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Drug Industry Proposes Limits on Advertising
The pharmaceutical industry released draft guidelines that endorse a period of informing doctors about new drugs before running ads for them...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
The Churn
People...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Brush With Disaster Alters a Career
A natural disaster persuaded Margaret Cole, the new top market enforcer in Britain, to drop corporate law after two decades of practice...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
SBC Profit Falls on Merger Costs
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Greenspan Era Taught People to Gamble
The Alan Greenspan era deserves to be remembered for forcing many millions of Americans to become gamblers...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Fuel Costs Hurt Profit at JetBlue
Despite growing ticket sales, JetBlue Airways' second-quarter earnings almost halved as high fuel prices continued to cut into its profit...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Express Scripts to Buy a Drug Distributor
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Coca-Cola Profit Rises 9% in 2nd Quarter
ATLANTA, July 21 (AP) - The Coca-Cola Company on Thursday reported a 9 percent jump in second-quarter profit on solid gains in revenue, beating Wall Street estimates...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Wal-Mart Sued by Ex-Employee
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
China No Longer to Peg Currency Only to Dollar
The Bush administration hailed the decision but said that it planned to monitor carefully how Beijing carries out its new policy...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
A Filing Offers a Rare Peek Into the Big Board's Future
The New York Stock Exchange expects to lose about 5 percent of its market share between 2005 and 2007 while its earnings as a profit-making entity are expected to increase 386 percent, according to a government filing related to its pending acquisition of Archipelago Holdings...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Fed Minutes Show Accord on Inflation and Rate Rises
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - Policy makers at the Federal Reserve agreed in June that they had to be especially vigilant for signs of rising inflation and that they needed to keep raising interest rates...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
California Awarded $700 Million in Insurer Suit
LOS ANGELES, July 21 (AP) - A federal jury awarded $700 million in punitive damages to the State of California on Thursday in its lawsuit against a French company that took part in an illegal scheme to acquire the failed insurer Executive Life...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Impact on Chinese Companies: For Most, Not Much
By CHRIS BUCKLEY...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Guidant Quarterly Profit Falls Because of Expense of Recalls
The Guidant Corporation said yesterday that its second-quarter net income fell 15 percent from a year ago, reflecting costs associated with recent recalls of tens of thousands of heart devices...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
China Adopts Opaque Currency Policy
The new currency policy gives enormous discretion to China's leaders to push the yuan up or down as they choose...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Lawmakers Examine Credit Card Breaches
WASHINGTON, July 21 - Major credit card companies and the payment processor at the center of the country's largest data breach were called to Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify about a security compromise that exposed some 40 million cardholders to fraud...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Some Retailers May Keep Video Game Off Shelves
Some video game retailers said that they might not restock the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas even if sexually suggestive content was removed...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Strong PC Sales Help Microsoft Beat Earnings Estimates
Microsoft reported that earnings rose nearly 38 percent in the fourth quarter helped by a tax benefit and strong demand for personal computers...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
U.S. Calls Revaluation a Good Start
The Bush administration welcomed China's move toward a more flexible currency, but the cautious shift may not be enough to cool the anti-China sentiments boiling up in Congress...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Danone Plays Down Rumor of a Takeover by PepsiCo
Danone executives said that they were not in contact with PepsiCo over a rumored hostile takeover, but the statement did little to defuse a furor over the possibility...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Dollar Falls Against Asian Currencies After China Says It Will End Link
The dollar dropped sharply yesterday against the Japanese yen and other Asian currencies and Treasury yields shot higher after China announced that it was revaluing its currency and ending its direct tie to the dollar...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Ace to Restate 5 Years of Earnings to Correct Accounting
Ace, the Bermuda-based insurance company under investigation by New York state and federal authorities, said yesterday that it would restate more than five years of results to correct accounting on a type of insurance that companies can use to smooth earnings improperly...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
After She Sued Merrill, It's Back to the Job
An arbitration panel has ruled that Merrill Lynch must rehire E. Hydie Sumner, a former Merrill Lynch financial consultant who successfully sued the firm for sex discrimination and won $2.2 million...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Shares Fall After Bombings Overshadow Other News
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Cutting Expenses Helps Pare Losses at Delta
Delta Air Lines reported a smaller second-quarter loss yesterday, amid growing concerns that high fuel prices and unrelenting competition could force it to seek bankruptcy protection later this year...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Deal on Pollutant Cleanup Pushed to Save Energy Bill
The oil industry has agreed to help clean up spills of a gasoline additive that is fouling groundwater in exchange for protection against lawsuits...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Google Profit Soars Again, Beyond High Expectations
Google continued its rapid growth in the second quarter, posting a profit of $343 million, more than a fourfold increase from the same period a year ago...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Another Spinoff Completed in Remaking Liberty Media
John C. Malone, the media industry financier, moved a step closer to carving up what remains of his United States holdings on Thursday...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Maytag Board Turns Down Whirlpool Bid
The Maytag board rebuffed Whirlpool's bid, saying it continued to support its previous agreement to be sold to Ripplewood Holdings, a private equity firm...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
In Washington, Taking the Express Lane to Diversity
A law firm is aggressively moving to build an employment law practice in Washington by hiring about a dozen lawyers - nine of them African-American and one Hispanic...
New York Times - July 22, 2005
Emily threatens floods in Mexico
Hurricane Emily weakens to a tropical depression over northern Mexico, but threat of flooding remains...
BBC News - July 22, 2005
NHL: players agree contract deal
The NHL looks set to return after players ratify new contract terms with team owners...
BBC News - July 22, 2005
Baseball: Hernandez suspended
Kansas City's Runelvys Hernandez is one of several players banned after a brawl...
BBC News - July 22, 2005
US House renews anti-terror law
The House of Representatives has votes to extend the Patriot Act, the main US anti-terrorism legislation...
BBC News - July 22, 2005
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