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US News Archive for September 2006:
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Bush to mediate anti-terror allies
U.S. President George W. Bush is set to play middleman during meetings with two world leaders who are key players in the war on terror, but have been outspoken about their differences with each other. Bush, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will make a statement to reporters after the meeting, and then have a private dinner at the White House...
CNN - September 27, 2006
Police: School gunman says he has bomb
Two schools were evacuated Wednesday after a gunman claiming to have a bomb opened fire and took hostages at a high school near Bailey, Colorado, officials said...
CNN - September 27, 2006
D’Aquino, Linked to Tokyo Rose Broadcasts, Dies
The Japanese-American was convicted of treason in 1949 for broadcasting propaganda, but was later pardoned...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Football Star Says Drug Reaction Was Accidental
Terrell Owens said a combination of pills and supplements left him groggy; police had said it was a suicide attempt...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Judge Declares 3rd Mistrial in Gotti Case
John A. Gotti was accused of racketeering related to his leadership of the Gambino organized crime family...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Diabetes Treatment Disappoints in New Study
Transplants of insulin-making cells have not lived up to the promise they showed in an initial trial...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Pirro Investigated Over Plan to Tape Husband
Jeanine F. Pirro, the Republican candidate for New York attorney general, said she had broken no laws...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
House Passes Detainee Bill as Senate Begins Debate
The bill appeared headed to approval, giving the president one of the accomplishments on national security he hoped to achieve before the election...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Congress Calls 5 Detectives to H.P. Hearing
The witnesses are to appear before a Congressional hearing Thursday on the Hewlett-Packard spying case...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Renault Chief May Look to Ford if G.M. Talks Fail
Carlos Ghosn’s comments came hours after he met with General Motors’ chief executive, Rick Wagoner...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Car bosses pledge to keep talking
The bosses of GM and Renault and Nissan pledge to keep up talks about forming a global partnership...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
NY Mafia son's third trial folds
US prosecutors fail yet again to convict John "Junior" Gotti, son of New York Mafia boss John Gotti...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
California to cut gas emissions
Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a law which sets targets to reduce California's greenhouse gas emissions...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
EU restricts hand-luggage liquid
Air passengers travelling to European Union countries may face a 100ml limit on how much they can take on board...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Bush blocks terror report release
The White House refuses calls by some Democrats to release in full a previously secret intelligence report that depicts a growing terrorist threat and has fueled the election-season fight over the Iraq war. In the bleak National Intelligence Estimate, analysts concluded Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for jihadists...
CNN - September 27, 2006
President defiant at Iran-EU talks
Iran's president vowed on Wednesday not to give up the right to nuclear technology, just as EU and Iranian diplomats met to see if Tehran might suspend uranium enrichment and avoid the threat of sanctions. ...
CNN - September 27, 2006
Border security plan delayed
A plan to tighten U.S. borders by requiring passports or tamper-resistant identification cards from everyone entering the country by land from Mexico and Canada has been delayed...
CNN - September 27, 2006
White House refuses to release full terror report
The White House refused Wednesday to release in full a previously secret intelligence assessment that depicts a growing terrorist threat and has fueled the election-season fight over the Iraq war...
CNN - September 27, 2006
D’Aquino, Convicted as Tokyo Rose, Dies at 90
The Japanese-American was convicted of treason in 1949 for broadcasting propaganda from Japan to U.S. troops...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Football Star Reportedly Tries to Commit Suicide
Terrell Owens was “attempting suicide by prescription pain medication,” the police report said...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Gotti Case Ends With Mistrial for Third Time in a Year
John A. Gotti, 42, was accused of racketeering related to his leadership of the Gambino organized crime family...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Housing Sector Gets a Reprieve
For the first time since March, sales of new homes rose in August, the Commerce Department said...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Congress Calls 5 Detectives to Hewlett-Packard Hearing
Five additional witnesses have been subpoenaed to appear Thursday before a Congressional hearing on the Hewlett-Packard spying case...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
G.M. Holds Talks With 2 Automakers
Rick Wagoner and Carlos Ghosn met for their first talks since agreeing to explore a potentially historic alliance...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Dow moves closer to all-time high
The Dow Jones index moves closer to hitting a record high as worries about US inflation ease...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Woods leads golfer Nelson tributes
Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk pay tribute to Byron Nelson after his death aged 94...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Unexpected rise in US home sales
Sales of new US homes unexpectedly recovered in August, rising 4.1% from July, official figures show...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Brazilian cleaner blackmailed judge
A UK court finds Brazilian cleaner Roselane Driza guilty of blackmailing a female judge and stealing videos...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Secretary Vows to Improve Results of Higher Education
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings vowed to implement some of the measures recommended by a federal panel, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
U.S. Pushes Anti-Castro TV, but Is Anyone Watching?
Even after the addition of a new $10 million system, many Cubans said they still see only snowy interference where the anti-Castro television broadcasts should be...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
New York City Plans Limits on Restaurants’ Use of Trans Fats
The city would set a limit of a half-gram of artificial trans fats per serving of any menu item...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
News Analysis: Waging the War on Terror: Report Belies Optimistic View
A newly declassified report describes a jihadist movement that, for now, is simply outpacing President Bush’s counterattacks...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Broken Bench: How a Reviled Court System Has Outlasted Critics
At least nine state bodies, two governors and several senior judges have denounced New York State’s town and village courts...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Square Feet: A New Orleans Project Is Missing Some Pieces
A $725 million effort to place a six-block park, public buildings and a jazz center in downtown New Orleans is being held up by a dispute over the price of land...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
World Automakers Gather in Paris, Looking for a Lift
Leaders of many of the biggest global car companies will be at this year’s Paris Motor Show at a seminal moment for the automobile industry...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Judge limits claims against Intel
A US judge limits an antitrust case launched against chipmaker Intel by AMD, citing a lack of jurisdiction...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Car bosses in new alliance talks
Car bosses Rick Wagoner and Carlos Ghosn meet in Paris as GM, Renault and Nissan discuss a global tie-up...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Baseball: Athletics secure title
Oakland Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 12-3 to seal the American League West title...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Carlos Menem collapses at rally
Argentina's former President Carlos Menem is taken to hospital after collapsing during a political rally...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
US military set to quit Iceland
The US reaches agreement with Iceland on how to end its military presence in the country...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
Japan PM ready for region talks
Japan's new nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is ready anytime for top-level talks with China and South Korea to mend rifts and ensure stability in the region, his spokesman said Wednesday. Since last year, Chinese President Hu Jintao had refused to meet Abe's predecessor Junichiro Koizumi because he repeatedly visited the Yasukuni shrine, which honors war criminals among Japan's war dead...
CNN - September 27, 2006
Byron Nelson, a Standout for His Remarkable Golf Swing and 1945 Season, Dies at 94
Byron Nelson was the winner of a record 11 consecutive professional golf tournaments in 1945 and one of golf’s most renowned figures...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Dueling Magicians: Whose Trick Is It Anyway?
The Knights Tour, a feat of mental agility involving a chess board, isn't the only overlap between the magic shows of Eric Walton and Ricky Jay...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Deal Is Likely on Detainees but Not on Eavesdropping
Congress moved closer to the passage of legislation on the handling of terrorism suspects while all but giving up hope on a final bill to authorize the administration’s eavesdropping program...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Surging Losses, but Few Victims in Data Breaches
While high-profile data breaches are common, there is no evidence of a surge in identity theft or financial fraud as a result...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Forensic Skills Seek to Uncover Hidden Patterns of Elder Abuse
The same techniques as those popularized on the television C.S.I. series are being used to diagnose elder abuse and neglect...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
New Campaign Ads Have a Theme: Don’t Be Nice
Both sides have described the midterm campaign environment as the most toxic in memory...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
New York City Plans Sharp Limits on Restaurants’ Use of Trans Fats
The plan appeared to ensure that the city would eventually take some formal action against artificial trans fats, which are considered by health experts to raise the risk of heart disease...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Broken Bench: How a Reviled Court System Has Outlasted Many Critics
At least nine state bodies have denounced New York State’s town and village courts over the last century, joined by at least two governors and several senior judges...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Across the East River and Poised for Growth
Long Island City, Queens, has nearly a million square feet of commercial office space coming out of the ground within the next year...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Advertising: Super Bowl Glory for Amateurs With Video Cameras
Frito-Lay and Chevrolet are holding ad-making contests, with winners getting their spots used as part of Super Bowl XLI campaigns...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Justices to Hear Case on Use of Union Fees
Among nine cases the court selected today for the coming term is a dispute over “paycheck protection” laws...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Trader Pleads Guilty
By Reuters...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Judge Limits Scope of Suit by A.M.D. Against Intel
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Insider Trading Alerts Rise
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (Reuters) — The New York Stock Exchange’s regulatory unit said Tuesday that it expected to refer 140 potential insider trading cases to the Securities and Exchange Commission this year, up 26 percent from 2005...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Former WorldCom Chief Begins 25 Years in Prison
OAKDALE, La., Sept. 26 (AP) — The former chief executive of WorldCom, Bernard J. Ebbers, drove through the gates of a federal prison on Tuesday to begin serving a 25-year sentence for his role in the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled his company...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Auto Parts Supplier to Miss Forecasts
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., Sept. 26 (AP) — The Visteon Corporation, the auto parts supplier, said Tuesday that it would not meet its financial targets for the rest of the year because of production cuts by automakers and other factors...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Vote on China Tariff Is in Some Doubt
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (Reuters) — A Senate vote this week on a bill threatening to impose steep tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States was put into doubt on Tuesday after the bill’s authors said they were unsure whether to press ahead with the vote...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
A New Orleans Project Is Missing Some Pieces
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 21 — Judah Hertz, a Santa Monica, Calif., real estate investor, has sometimes been compared to Larry Silverstein, the New York developer who signed a long-term lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before the twin towers were destroyed by terrorists...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Jury Backs Merck in Vioxx Lawsuit
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 26 (AP) — A federal jury ruled in favor of Merck on Tuesday in a lawsuit over the painkiller Vioxx, finding that there was not enough evidence to link the drug to a Kentucky man’s heart attack...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Millennium Wins Bidding for AnorMed
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Fund Is Sued Over Trades
ALBANY, Sept. 26 (AP) — Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, sued the mutual fund manager J. & W. Seligman & Company on Tuesday, contending that it owes investors $80 million in compensation for improper market-timing trades...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Lennar’s Profit Falls as It Pays to Lure Buyers
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Deal to Put Live Concerts on Internet Is Dissolved
AOL and a group of entertainment entrepreneurs who created a venture to produce and distribute live concerts on the Internet and elsewhere have dissolved their partnership after just 14 months, executives in the venture said yesterday...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Kerkorian Appeals Ruling Backing Daimler-Chrysler Merger
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26 — DaimlerChrysler and Kirk Kerkorian resumed their legal battle on Tuesday, this time in an appeal by Mr. Kerkorian, the billionaire investor who contends he was shortchanged in the 1998 “merger of equals” between Chrysler and Daimler-Benz...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Sharper Image’s Founder Is Out in Shake-Up
By Reuters...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
H.P. Director’s Cellphone a Frequent Target
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26 — It began in May 2005 with a call to Verizon Wireless from a woman posing as one of its employees. It ended almost a year later with another such call, in the same quest: to gain the cellphone records of a Hewlett-Packard director and his family...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
In Italy, Political Fallout Over Plans for Telecom
MILAN, Sept. 26 — It started with the announcement of a clear-cut plan to split up Italy’s largest phone company, Telecom Italia, into separate mobile and fixed-line units...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Stocks & Bonds: Dow Climbs 93 Points and Posts Its Second-Highest Close
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Gas Prices Lift Consumer Mood; Some Concerns Persist on Jobs
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Germans Raise Bid for Spanish Utility
Despite winning new support from European regulators, the German power company E.On was forced on Tuesday to raise its offer for the Spanish utility Endesa...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Intel Fires Back at A.M.D. Over Bragging Rights on Chip
Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are vying to be the first to create a new generation of chips with four processing cores...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
73% of Delphi Union Workers Agree to Leave by End of Year
In all, 27,500 union workers on Delphi’s payroll have agreed to leave their jobs as the world’s largest auto parts maker prepares to close most of its factories...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Qwest Beats the Odds, So Far
The revived phone company Qwest has built up so much cash that it can think, cautiously, of buying another industry player...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
The Butler, a Confidence and a Profit of $48,000
Regulators say they have solved an insider trading mystery: It was the butler in the poolside office with the fax machine...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Johnson & Johnson Sues Boston Scientific, Guidant and Abbott Laboratories Over Deal
The suit claims that the three companies illegally shared information on their way to scuttling Guidant’s agreement to sell itself to Johnson & Johnson...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
World Automakers Gather in Paris, Looking for a Lift
Leaders of many of the biggest global car companies will be at this year’s Paris Motor Show at a seminal moment for the automobile industry...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Economix: The Choice: A Longer Life or More Stuff
The most authoritative report on the cost of health insurance came out Tuesday, and it’s sure to cause some new outrage...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Health Care Costs Rise Twice as Much as Inflation
The cost of employee health coverage rose 7.7 percent this year, more than double the overall inflation rate and well ahead of the increase in the incomes of workers...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Fastow Sentenced to 6 Years
The judge said he gave Andrew Fastow a lighter sentence in part because he has been “persecuted” since Enron’s collapse...
New York Times - September 27, 2006
Paris Hilton in drink-driving rap
Paris Hilton is charged with drinking and driving, following her arrest earlier this month in Los Angeles...
BBC News - September 27, 2006
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