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US News Archive for January 2007:
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Official: 250 gunmen die in Najaf
Iraqi and U.S. forces killed more than 250 insurgents in fierce battles over control of the Shiite holy city of Najaf today, an interior ministry official tells CNN. The official said hundreds of gunmen attacked with the aim of killing Shia clerics including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani...
CNN - January 28, 2007
Tech Barons Take on New Project: Energy Policy
Technology investors are on a crusade to influence energy policy because they have a big stake in the outcome...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
?Dreamgirls? Banked on Best Picture Oscar, and Lost
?Dreamgirls? may well be remembered as the picture that showed how far a studio cannot go in seeking a prize...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Clashes in Gaza Despite Pleas for Calm
The clashes in the streets of Gaza City also forced a breakdown in the latest talks to form a unity government...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Barbaro Takes a Turn for the Worse
Doctors had to operate on Barbaro?s shattered right hind leg over the weekend after his foot developed an abscess...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
A New Castro?
Hugo Chávez may sound like a throwback, but he has tapped into a very modern frustration with U.S. power...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Clinton Calls on Bush to Leave Iraq Before 2009
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said today that President Bush?s successor should not inherit the problems in Iraq...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Mortar Hits Baghdad School, Killing 5 Girls
The attack, in the Adel neighborhood, was the latest in a series of assaults on schools and those who educate the young...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Studio boss loses Oscar challenge
Brad Grey, chairman of Paramount Pictures, is denied a producer's credit on rival Warners film The Departed...
BBC News - January 28, 2007
British royals on whirlwind U.S. visit
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla waved to adoring fans Sunday as they walked to a private church service before they were to depart for New York and continue their whirlwind American weekend...
CNN - January 28, 2007
Mortars hit Baghdad girls school
Two mortars slammed into a girls school in a mainly Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing at least five girls and wounding nearly two dozen others, according to Iraqi police and residents.Gunbattles and bomb attacks killed 22 people Sunday -- including an Industry Ministry adviser -- and wounded 67 others, Iraqi officials said...
CNN - January 28, 2007
Australian Open: Federer Wins 10th Grand Slam
The coolest head in tennis once again ruled the evening as Roger Federer defended his title in Melbourne and won his 10th Grand Slam singles title with a 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-4 victory over Fernando González...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Clinton Calls Invasion of Iraq Irresponsible
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said today that Americans should expect President Bush to extricate the country from Iraq before he leaves office in early 2009...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Gaza battle rages on after 25 dead
Twenty-five Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured in several days of violence sparked when a Hamas operative was killed by a bomb in Gaza, according to Palestinian security and medical sources...
CNN - January 28, 2007
Bomb kills 15 near Pakistan mosque
A bomb went off near a Shiite Muslim mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar late Saturday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 60, police said. It was the second blast in Pakistan in less than 24 hours. In Islamabad, a suicide bombing killed three people on Friday...
CNN - January 28, 2007
Gaza violence deadly to 25
Seven people were killed Saturday in Gaza City as gunmen from the rival Hamas and Fatah movements battled for a third straight day. The deaths brought to 25 the number of Palestinians killed since late Thursday, with at least 68 people wounded and efforts to forge a coalition government at a standstill...
CNN - January 28, 2007
Dems, Bush call on one another to be bipartisan
There's hardly a topic these days on which President Bush isn't asking the Democratic-controlled Congress to avoid "a reflexive partisan response." That was his message in his weekly radio address on Saturday. And in the Democrats' address, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called on Bush to work with Democrats and "turn talk into action."...
CNN - January 28, 2007
Protest Focuses on Iraq Troop Increase
Tens of thousands of protesters converged on the National Mall in Washington in a show of antiwar sentiment...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Whose Iran?
President Ahmadinejad may not be all that popular. And the tension between theocracy and democracy may be reaching a crisis...
New York Times - January 28, 2007
Extended Saturday Interview: More From Vanguard Chief John Brennan
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New York Times - January 28, 2007
Bluesman BB King leaves hospital
Blues legend BB King is discharged from hospital after a bout of flu and plans to play a concert on Tuesday...
BBC News - January 28, 2007
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