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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 April 2006:
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$100 gas rebate checks?
Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday. "Our free market system works, but it works best when there's full accountability and full transparency," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Publisher Withdraws 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed'
Little, Brown and the author Kaavya Viswanathan have agreed to withdraw all editions of her novel from the market...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
'Grannies' Charged in Peace Protest Are Acquitted
The 18 grandmothers had been charged for blocking the entrance to a military recruitment center...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
For the Cameras, Work Begins on Freedom Tower
Construction at ground zero, it turns out, started a couple of weeks ago, while the squabbling was still going on...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Club Bouncer Pleads Not Guilty in Kidnapping Case
Daryl Littlejohn, who was charged with the murder of a graduate student, pleaded not guilty today...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
The Churn: People
People...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Republicans Offer Plan on Gas Prices
The senators' proposals include a $100 "gas-tax holiday," investment in alternative fuels and an investigation of price gouging...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Gazprom Signs Natural Gas Deal With Germans
Gazprom, the Russian monopoly, signed a major natural gas deal today with a unit of BASF that will advance the Russian company's expansion drive in the European retail market...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Fed Signals Pause in Campaign to Raise Interest Rates
Ben S. Bernanke may be trying to give the Fed more flexibility as it approaches the end of nearly two years of rate increases...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
US blocks Darfur suspects' assets
The US orders a freeze on the assets of anyone felt to have posed a threat to stability in Sudan's Darfur region...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Business software helps Microsoft
Software giant Microsoft reports a 16% rise in profits thanks to strong sales of its business software...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Sago mine survivor: Our air packs failed
Trapped deep below ground by poisonous gases, the Sago miners realized at least four of their air packs did not work and had to share as they pounded away with a sledgehammer in hopes of letting rescuers know where to find them, sole survivor Randy McCloy says in a letter to his colleagues' families...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Zarqawi video 'act of desperation'
The appearance of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a Web video is "an act of desperation," according to a U.S. military official. Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch added that the military believed "that is indeed Zarqawi in his final hours."...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Senators: 'Bumbling' FEMA must go
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which floundered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, should be abolished and replaced with a new organization, a Senate committee will recommend Thursday. "FEMA is discredited, demoralized, and dysfunctional. It is beyond repair. Just tweaking the organizational chart will not solve the problem," said Sen. Susan Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Puzzle Embedded in 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling
Intriguing clues may lead to breaking the Smithy Code...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
City Schools Cut Parents' Lifeline (the Cellphone)
Parents said cellphones, which are technically banned in city public schools, are essential for maintaining a daily link to their children...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Katrina Evacuees Find FEMA Housing Grants Will End Soon
Nearly a third of the 55,000 families who counted on a year of free housing are being told that they must either pay the rent themselves or leave...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Rice and Rumsfeld Back Iraqi Premier
As the secretaries visited Baghdad, violence underscored the new government's challenges...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Utility Merger Draws Criticism
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New York Times - April 27, 2006
ConocoPhillips Posts 13% Profit Increase
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New York Times - April 27, 2006
Colgate Jumps on Strong Sales in Latin America
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New York Times - April 27, 2006
Deal Is Said to Be Near on Softwood Lumber
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New York Times - April 27, 2006
Exxon Profits Rise, and So Does Congressional Scrutiny
The world's largest publicly traded oil company reported a 7 percent rise in profits, just as Congress threatened to punish oil companies...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Lay Is Pressed on Hedge Fund 'Conspiracy'
Enron's ex-chairman was questioned on an assertion that hedge funds played a role in Enron's downfall...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
DaimlerChrysler Reports Slight Rise in Profits for First Quarter
DaimlerChrysler, the world's fifth-largest automaker, said today its first quarter profit rose slightly as heavy losses at its Mercedes-Benz division continued to slow the company's growth...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Sony's U.S. Chief Scores Passing Grade in First Earnings Report
Sir Howard Stringer's turnaround efforts showed early signs of progress, analysts said...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Fed May Pause Campaign to Raise Rates, Chief Says
Ben S. Bernanke may be trying to give the Fed more flexibility as it approaches the end of nearly two years of interest rate increases...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
China Raises Lending Rate to Slow Booming Economy
China's central bank today raised official borrowing costs for the first time in a year and a half, trying to slow a spectacular surge in lending and investment...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Mercedes costs hit Daimler profit
DaimlerChrysler sees modest growth in first-quarter profit, its recovery held back by the cost of reviving its Mercedes division...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Inflation fears cloud US growth
The head of the US Federal Reserve says inflation is the main threat to the economy...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Rapper Snoop Dogg freed on bail
American rapper Snoop Dogg is released without charge following his arrest after a fracas at Heathrow Airport...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Football: Scolari England job offer
Luiz Felipe Scolari has been offered the England manager's job and is discussing terms with the FA...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Ill Moussaoui juror forces recess
Jurors considering the fate of al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui have been sent home after one fell ill...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Nepal Maoists declare cease-fire
Nepal's communist rebels have declared a three-month cease-fire one day before parliament is set to reconvene after weeks of bloody protests...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Iraq vice president sister killed
Gunmen kill the sister of Iraq Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, just days after he was appointed to the post. The Sunni Arab, who has called for the use of force to put down Iraq's insurgency, lost his brother two weeks earlier...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Communist Vietnam Lunges for Capitalism's Brass Ring
Vietnam today is moving cautiously toward a new version of communism while it eagerly adopts capitalist regulations and reforms...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
US fears firms listing overseas
The US business community is worried that domestic companies are preferring to float overseas...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Oil price lift for ConocoPhillips
Record oil prices help ConocoPhillips report a 13% rise in first-quarter profits...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
NFL: Packers' Favre to play on
NFL great Brett Favre announces he will play another season with Green Bay...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Baseball: Bonds closes on Ruth
Barry Bonds moves to within three home runs of Babe Ruth on the all-time list by hitting his 711th homer...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Leaders push S America pipeline
Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil agree to push ahead with plans to build a $20bn gas pipeline...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
MEPs probe 'CIA detention' case
MEPs visit Macedonia to check claims a German man was held by US agents and flown to Afghanistan...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Third man jailed for US nun death
A third man is jailed for aiding the killing of US-born nun Dorothy Stang, a peasants' rights activist, in Brazil...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Katrina agency faces closure call
US senators investigating the Hurricane Katrina response recommend scrapping the emergency agency...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
Your e-mails: Fighting high gas prices
As gasoline prices surpass $3 a gallon nationwide, CNN.com asked readers what they thought of President Bush's proposals to tackle the problem, including halting deposits to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and an investigation into possible price gouging...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Senate panel: Abolish FEMA
The nation's disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled by years of poor leadership and inadequate funding, the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot be fixed, a bipartisan investigation says...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Romania struggles to shelter flood victims
More than 15,000 Romanians who fled areas flooded by the Danube River are crowded into tent communities and faced with dwindling supplies, residents and volunteers said Wednesday. Food is running low, they say, and there are no toilets, forcing them to use a nearby field...
CNN - April 27, 2006
Iran Threatens Retaliation if U.S. Attacks
The nation's supreme leader made the threat two days before a United Nations report on Iran's nuclear activity is expected...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Medicare Rule Guarantees Continuity of Drugs
Under a new policy in the prescription drug program, insurers that drop coverage for a drug must exempt beneficiaries who already take it...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Skin Deep: The Man Who Aged Me
My makeup man and I worked around the world and at every studio in Hollywood. With my face as his canvas, he turned me into a cop, an astronaut and even Santa Claus...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
First, Plot and Character. Then, Find an Author.
Plagiarism charges have opened a window onto the relationships between a "book packager" and publishers...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Web Sites Set Up to Celebrate Life Recall Lives Lost
Personal Web pages on social networking sites like MySpace.com are altering the rituals of mourning...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
White House Memo: Bush Hires a Loyal Critic as Spokesman
Tony Snow will be something President Bush has never had: a free-wheeling outsider in a very public position...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Evacuees Find Housing Grants Will End Soon
Nearly a third of the 55,000 families who counted on a year of free housing are being told that they no longer qualify...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Grand Jury Gets Rove Testimony Over C.I.A. Leak
Karl Rove's testimony was a sign of renewed attention by the special prosecutor in a matter that has lingered unresolved for months...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
PepsiCo Profit Rises On Overseas Sales
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Insurance Company Settles Case on Bids
ALBANY, April 26 (AP) — The insurance company Ace Ltd. has settled a bid-rigging investigation by Connecticut, Illinois and New York for $80 million in restitution and penalties, the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, said Wednesday...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Colgate Jumps on Strong Sales in Latin America
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New York Times - April 27, 2006
ConocoPhillips Posts 13% Profit Increase
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New York Times - April 27, 2006
Advertising: Company Tells Court Antismoking Ads Go Too Far
In an appeal of an earlier ruling, the Lorillard Tobacco Company argued that ads by an antismoking group vilified the tobacco industry and its employees...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Utility Merger Draws Criticism
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New York Times - April 27, 2006
Cost of Acquisitions Causes Sprint Nextel's Profit to Fall
Not including amortization from acquisitions, the company said it earned 35 cents a share, missing Wall Street predictions...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Profit Up at a Freestanding CBS
The company's quarterly profits were aided by its television business, but shares fell on weakness at its radio unit in the wake of the departure of Howard Stern...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Strong Commercial Sales at Boeing
CHICAGO, April 26 (AP) — The Boeing Company rode the momentum of its commercial airplane business for a strong start to 2006, posting a 29 percent higher first-quarter profit and overcoming a subpar showing by its military business...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Comair Pay Cuts Rejected
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Economic Scene : In iTunes War, France Has Met the Enemy. Perhaps It Is France.
French politicians have abandoned one of the guiding principles of antitrust economics: penalize companies that harm consumers, not the ones that are building better products...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Deal Is Said to Be Near on Softwood Lumber
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New York Times - April 27, 2006
KPMG Reports Some Progress on Shelters
The accounting firm KPMG has enticed enough investors back into a revised settlement over tax shelters, and will now pay out around $150 million to 209 eligible investors...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
A New German Optimism Jousts With Reality
Have the German people, who are regularly chided by their political leaders and commentators for unwarranted pessimism, succumbed to a bout of irrational exuberance?...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
G.E., Betting on the Future, Finances a Solar Farm in Portugal
The sheep that have long grazed on 150 acres of farmland in Serpa, Portugal, will soon have to share their space with the world's largest solar energy plant...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Warner Bros. Television Starts Unit to Produce Cable Shows
The longtime head of the studio, Peter Roth, will also lead the cable unit, to be called Warner Horizon Television...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Microsoft Is Seen Near Ad Move
Microsoft is close to reaching a deal to buy Massive Incorporated, which makes technology that inserts advertisements into video games...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Disney and CBS Explore Univision Deal
Several big media companies have held meetings with Univision's management over the last week about making a takeover offer for the company...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Putin Talks of Sending Oil to Asia, Not Europe
Warning that Russia has other export options, President Vladimir Putin waded into a debate in Europe over the plans of Gazprom, the natural gas monopoly...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Broker's Upgrade of G.M. Helps Send Shares Higher
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Microsoft Says Its Rivals Get a 'Free Ride'
The focus of the weeklong hearing shifted from media player software to an order that Microsoft provide interoperability information to makers of rival operating systems...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Doctors Urge Safety Panels for Devices
A major medical group proposed that heart device producers appoint outside experts to help oversee product safety...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Growth Accelerated in March, But a Slowdown Is Expected
The economy ended the first quarter on a high note, but economists cautioned that higher energy costs and interest rates might sap some of that vitality...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Bush to Meet Big 3 for Talks on Fuel Issues and Pensions
The meeting is expected to focus on energy and the environment; costs and pricing; and how currency issues affect Japanese automakers...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Small Business: Dealing With Quirks in a Metal and in the Start-Up Game
James E. O'Keefe has developed hair-thin wires he thinks could serve as cheap and powerful signaling devices. Now comes the hard task of swaying those who can make or break his dreams...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Second Thoughts in Congress on Oil Tax Breaks
Lawmakers in both parties said they were ready to take a tough look at oil and gas incentives they passed recently...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Lay Loses His Cool On Stand
The Enron founder has become increasingly agitated, lashing out at what Mr. Lay portrayed as a cabal of former Enron executives, investors and journalists...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
The Shareholder Spring
As executives and directors step into the spotlight at this year's annual shareholder meetings, some for the first time are hearing shareholder discontent...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
4 Knight Ridder Papers to Be Sold for $1 Billion
With the deal, MediaNews will become the nation's fourth-largest newspaper company in terms of daily circulation...
New York Times - April 27, 2006
Big boost for US border security
The US Senate votes to divert $1.9bn from military funding to tighten the country's border security...
BBC News - April 27, 2006
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