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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 August 2004:
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Officials: Bush order 'step' toward intelligence director
In response to recommendations by the 9/11 panel, President Bush signed executive orders Friday that sources say strengthen the hand of the CIA director and create a national counterrorism center. U.S. officials said the changes are an "interim step" before the Bush administration proposes legislation next month creating a national intelligence director with greater powers...
CNN - August 27, 2004
New York stands guard
Anarchist, terrorist. Train, truck or bus. Whatever the threat, New York's finest say they are prepared. New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly assures the world that his 37,000 uniformed officers are ready for any disruption or attack on the Republican National Convention...
CNN - August 27, 2004
A 'war president' at the RNC
George W. Bush heads into the Republican National Convention as a self-described "war president," presiding over a nation altered considerably from the one he inherited...
CNN - August 27, 2004
Bush Signs Order Bolstering C.I.A. Director's Power
President Bush issued an executive order today that grants more power to the director of central intelligence...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
'Dream Team' Can Do No Better Than Bronze
The U.S. lost to Argentina, 89-81, and will play for bronze on Saturday. It is the first time the Americans have failed to win the gold medal since 1988...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Greenspan Issues Warning on Retirement Benefits
The chairman of the Federal Reserve warned today that the Federal government might have to scale back promises to the elderly...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Hewlett-Packard to Launch Latest Push Into Consumer Markets
The company will unveil a range of products today including its version of the iPod digital music player that raises the stakes in a war between PC and electronics makers...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Guantanamo hearing postponed
A hearing at Guantanamo Bay for a man accused of being an al-Qaeda paymaster is postponed...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Dream Team surrender title
The US men's basketball team are ousted in the semi-finals by Argentina, while Italy beat Lithuania...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Relay baton blunder costs US
A mistake involving Marion Jones costs the United States the Olympic gold in the women's 4x100m relay...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
US star sets pole vault record
America's Timothy Mack sets an Olympic record to win the men's pole vault gold medal...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Peterson trial turns to computers
Testimony in Scott Peterson's murder trial returned to what investigators found in his computers as prosecutors try to prove Peterson researched the San Francisco Bay before dumping his pregnant wife's body there...
CNN - August 27, 2004
Al-Sadr militiamen turn in weapons, leave shrine
A peace deal brought peace to Najaf today, as fighters loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr turned in their weapons and left the Imam Ali Mosque they had occupied during three weeks of fighting with U.S. and Iraqi forces. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani brokered the peace deal with al-Sadr, who is now free to go anywhere he likes...
CNN - August 27, 2004
Bush Preparing to Bolster C.I.A. Director's Power
President Bush will issue an executive order today that will grant more power to the director of central intelligence...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
U.S. Economy Grew at Slower Pace Than Expected
The economy struggled under an increasing trade deficit and a slowdown in consumer spending, the Commerce Department said today...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Greenspan Issues Warning on Retirement Benefits
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said today that the country will face "abrupt and painful" choices if Social Security and Medicare benefits are not trimmed...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Big shuttle repairs not possible
Space shuttle astronauts will fly next year without the ability to repair in orbit the type of damage that destroyed the Columbia vehicle in 2003...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Venezuela ratifies Chavez victory
Final results from the Venezuelan referendum give President Hugo Chavez more than 59% of the vote...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Bush admits Iraq 'miscalculation'
US President George W Bush admits for the first time miscalculating conditions in post-war Iraq...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
US Presley festival under threat
Poor ticket sales are threatening the future of the annual Elvis Presley Festival in the late star's home town...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
US women into basketball final
The United States will play Australia in the final of the Olympic women's basketball...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Mia Hamm quits after gold
Women's football legend Mia Hamm insists she has made the right decision to retire...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
US protest in gymnast row
US believe gymnast body is placing unfair pressure on one of their gymnasts to hand back gold medal...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Police killed in Colombia blast
Two police officers die in a blast in the north of Colombia's capital, Bogota...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
US acclaim for Guantanamo play
A British play which depicts the lives of detainees at the American military base Guantanamo Bay opens in the US...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Tiger-mauled Horn back to work
Illusionist Roy Horn is producing a live Las Vegas show, nearly a year after he was attacked by a tiger...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
US economic growth slips to 2.8%
Annual US economic growth fell to 2.8% in the second quarter of 2004, marking a slowdown from the 3% estimated a month ago...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Greenspan warns on ageing threat
Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warns that prompt action is needed to fund pensions for the ageing US population...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
Explosives found in jet crash debris, Russia says
Traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of one of the two Russian jetliners that crashed earlier this week, killing all 89 people aboard the planes, the Federal Security Service tells CNN. The two airliners crashed within minutes of each other Tuesday night after departing Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. The security office said it had identified some suspects but did not elaborate...
CNN - August 27, 2004
Shiites stream into Najaf mosque
Thousands of Shiite marchers have streamed into the Imam Ali Mosque in central Najaf as a deadline for a peace agreement between Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi militia and U.S. and Iraqi forces expired...
CNN - August 27, 2004
Crips, Bloods and a Town in the Crossfire
Community leaders admit that Irvington, N.J., is not dealing with a typical gang situation--it is dealing with groups of youths who operate outside that structure...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Poll: Race a dead heat
The November presidential race between President Bush and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry remains a statistical tie, with Kerry holding a single-point edge among registered voters, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll...
CNN - August 27, 2004
A neck and neck race
The race for the White House between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry remains a statistical tie, with Kerry holding a single-point edge among registered voters, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll...
CNN - August 27, 2004
Bush Dismisses Idea That Kerry Lied on Vietnam
President Bush, however, declined to condemn the commercial paid for by a veterans group opposed to John Kerry...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
New York Awaits Republicans With Reluctance and Unease
53 percent of New Yorkers say they are very or somewhat worried that a terrorist attack will happen during the convention...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
For the President, Special Setup Is Planned at Convention
For greater intimacy, President Bush will give his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention from a small circular stage in a sea of thousands of delegates and other guests...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
A Windfall for a Student Loan Program
The student loan industry is collecting a record amount of the old subsidies Congress thought it had retired...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Sure, It's Pragmatic. But Stylish? The Minivan Is Getting a Makeover
Making the minivan hip would be an Olympian feat, but the pragmatic advantage of vans was underscored in statistics that showed them to be safer than cars...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Record Level of Americans Not Insured on Health
The number of people without health insurance rose by 1.4 million, to a record 45 million last year, amid rising costs for coverage...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Federal Regulators Find Problems at 4 Big Auditors
The new regulatory body for the auditing industry said that its inspections of the Big Four accounting firms had found "significant audit and accounting issues."...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
Krispy Kreme Earnings Slide; Change in Strategy Is Planned
Krispy Kreme, which wowed Wall Street with a hot old-economy growth story when it went public, has lost more than two-thirds of its value since it peaked a year ago...
New York Times - August 27, 2004
US watchdog finds audit problems
The watchdog set up to keep auditors in line after scandals at firms such as Enron finds "significant issues" in its first inspection...
BBC News - August 27, 2004
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