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US News Archive for April 2006:
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Abu Ghraib officer charged
The former head of the interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was charged Friday with cruelty, maltreatment and other criminal offenses for his alleged involvement in the abuse of detainees in 2003. Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan is the highest-ranking officer at the jail to face criminal charges...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Bracing for 'A Day Without an Immigrant'
Meatpacking plants will shut down. Markets won't open. Trucks won't roll. Students will walk out of school. Millions of people will take to America's streets in possibly unprecedented numbers...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Rosie O'Donnell Will Co-Host 'The View'
Rosie O'Donnell, whose talk show ended its six-year run in 2001, will return to daytime television this September...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Rush Limbaugh Arrested on Prescription Drug Charges
Rush Limbaugh attorney said he has reached a deal with prosecutors that will eventually see the charges dismissed if he continues treatment for drug addiction...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Pfizer Boldly Advertising Celebrex Again
The new campaign comes 16 months after Pfizer stopped ads for the painkiller over concerns about its heart risks...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Darfur Food Rations Cut as Donations Lag
The World Food Program said it had received just one-third of the $746 million it requested from donors...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Bush Says Anthem Should Be in English
The president was responding to a question about the release today of a Spanish-language version of the song...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
U.S. Economic Growth Rises Sharply
The economy grew at an annual rate of 4.8 percent in the first quarter, its fastest pace in more than two years...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Microsoft sees shares tumble 11%
Software giant Microsoft saw 11% wiped off its value today after investors showed disappointment with third quarter earnings...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Moussaoui juror reprimanded
The judge in the trial of al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui reprimands a juror for consulting a dictionary...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
US war costs 'could hit $811bn'
New estimates suggest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost the US government $811bn - more than the Vietnam conflict...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
US sprinter charged with fraud
Former US sprint star Tim Montgomery is arrested in connection with a $5m bank fraud, prosecutors say...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Bush criticises Spanish US anthem
George Bush enters a row over a Spanish version of the US national anthem featuring Wyclef John...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Sago family demands answers on air packs
Officials are scrambling to reassure coal miners that emergency air packs will work, even though the sole survivor of the Sago Mine disaster says four of his crew's devices malfunctioned. The family of one of the Sago dead, Jerry Groves, said mines had to be safer...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Bush: Diplomacy 'begins' on Iran
U.S. President George W. Bush says diplomatic efforts are "just beginning" on Iran after a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency's report finds Tehran in breach of a deadline to halt uranium enrichment...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Bush rejects tax on windfall oil profits
President Bush on Friday rejected calls to tax oil companies' record profits fueled by high oil prices but said he expects those companies to re-invest those profits into alternative fuels and new energy technologies...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Broken: The Code in the 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling
The phrase, confirmed by the judge, was: "Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought."...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
South Korea Arrests Head of Hyundai Motor
The most powerful South Korean tycoon to be arrested in recent years would face a possible life sentence in prison...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Transit Union Leader Is Released
Roger Toussaint served less than four full days of what was supposed to be a 10-day sentence for leading an illegal strike in December...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Iran Is Not Cooperating, Agency Says
Iran has persisted with its nuclear program and has continued to defy the U.N.'s demands for information, the I.A.E.A. said today...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
AirTran Posts Narrower Loss, Helped by Fuel Cost Credit
The carrier, reported a first-quarter loss of $4.6 million, or 5 cents a share...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
GlaxoSmithKline Profit Rises 25%
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New York Times - April 28, 2006
Mexican Congress Approves Overhaul of Antitrust Law
The passage of the bill came as a surprise to many who feared that legislators would bend before the power of Mexico’s largest companies...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
U.S. Economic Growth Rose Sharply in 1st Quarter
The U.S. economy bounded ahead at a 4.8 percent pace, the strongest growth spurt in more than two years...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Sturgeon farms cash in on caviar
Farming sturgeon to produce caviar is a slow process, but as the trade in wild caviar is banned the farmed variety becomes easier to sell...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Golfers flock to US Open
A total of 8,584 players have entered for 106th US Open in June...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Chevron joins US oil firm bonanza
Chevron sees its first quarter profit jump 49% to $4bn (£2.2bn), the latest oil company to cash in on soaring world energy prices...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
New Orleans hosts jazz festival
The first New Orleans Jazz Festival since Hurricane Katrina is to begin, with Fats Domino among the acts...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
US mine denies survivor's charge
The operator of a US mine where 12 men died in January denies allegations that vital oxygen bags did not work...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Guatemala troops to tackle gangs
Guatemala's president says more security forces will be deployed across the country to combat gang violence...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Moussaoui trial jury reconvenes
The jury in the trial of al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui reconvenes after a one-day break...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Big growth spurt for US economy
The US economy roars ahead in the first quarter of 2006, growing at its fastest rate in two and a half years...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Report: Iraq becoming terror haven
The State Department's annual terrorism report finds that Iraq is becoming a safe haven for terrorists and has attracted a "foreign fighter pipeline" linked to terrorist plots, cells and attacks throughout the world, a senior State Department official involved in the preparation of the report told CNN...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Tony Snow gets White House job
Conservative US broadcaster Tony Snow is picked for the high-profile role of White House press secretary...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
US 'long war' against terror
Documents from the Pentagon and Osama Bin Laden give insights into what the US calls "the long war", says Paul Reynolds...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Intel starts restructuring review
Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, is starting a restructuring plan as it battles lower sales and declining market share...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
US court clears anti-war grannies
Eighteen women calling themselves the "Granny Peace Brigade" are acquitted over a protest against the Iraq war...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Rap star to leave UK after arrest
US rap star Snoop Dogg willl fly out of the UK, two days after being arrested at London's Heathrow Airport...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Marines face Philippine rape case
Four US marines appear in court in the Philippines charged with raping a local woman...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
Nepal Parliament set to reconvene
After three weeks of protests and political turmoil, Nepal now has a new prime minister, and the Himalayan nation's parliament is set to reconvene for the first time in four years...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Bush: Raise fuel-efficiency standards
While lawmakers from both parties scrambled for position on the issue of rising gas prices, President Bush on Thursday said he wants to raise fuel-efficiency standards on automobiles...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Nuke watchdog to give Iran report
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei releases his report on Iran's uranium enrichment program on Friday, a move that could increase global tensions over how to deal with Tehran's ambitions...
CNN - April 28, 2006
Atlantic City May Lose Out in a New Kind of Monopoly
The toy maker Hasbro is planning to drop Atlantic City from its flagship version of Monopoly, leaving people on the streets of the gambling resort startled and local officials protesting...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Surviving Miner Says Air Masks Failed to Work
Randal McCloy Jr. said that at least four of the oxygen masks meant to protect the Sago miners did not work...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Publisher Decides to Recall Novel by Harvard Student
Little, Brown will withdraw the novel by Kaavya Viswanathan, who admitted copying portions of the text...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
New York Killers, and Those Killed, by Numbers
A review of basic homicide records for every murder in New York City over the last three years hints at trends...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
In Hockey, Clothes Make the Fan
On the stands and on the streets, Rangers fans are holding their own, matching their Devils counterparts sweater for sweater, a No. 68 Jagr for every No. 30 Brodeur...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
AirTran Posts Narrower Loss, Helped by Fuel Cost Credit
The carrier, reported a first-quarter loss of $4.6 million, or 5 cents a share...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
GlaxoSmithKline Profit Rises 25%
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New York Times - April 28, 2006
Nintendo Names Its Game Console: Wii
Pronounced "we" — or in the French market, "oui" — Wii will go head-to-head with Microsoft's new Xbox 360 console and Sony's coming PlayStation 3...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
New Chief for Mortgage Finance Agency
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) — The White House said on Thursday that James B. Lockhart III, the deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration, would be nominated to lead the agency that oversees the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Bush Set to Approve Takeover of 9 Military Plants by Dubai
A deal for plants that manufacture parts for American military vehicles and aircraft is almost certain to attract scrutiny in Congress...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
I.B.M. Shows New Mainframe Computer
I.B.M. announced that it had developed a low-price mainframe computer that it intends to market to small and midsize businesses and emerging markets...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
G.M. Entangled in Pay-for-Publicity Dispute
A public relations firm may have offered money to former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich in exchange for comments supporting a buyout program at General Motors...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Daimler Earnings Rise Despite Setbacks
DETROIT, April 27 — DaimlerChrysler said Thursday that its earnings rose slightly in the first quarter despite heavy losses in the Mercedes-Benz division and signs of weakness at Chrysler...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Judges Stress Intellectual Property in Microsoft Appeal
Judge John Cooke, who will write the decision, appeared to chastise the commission's lawyers for not taking the Microsofts's concerns about protecting its intellectual property seriously...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Sony Shows Profit for Year Under Foreign Chief, but Challenges Remain
Sony's new foreign chief executive scored passing marks as the Japanese company posted better-than-expected net profit of $1.1 billion...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
New Subscribers Help Comcast More Than Triple Its Profit
The gain was driven by a better-than-expected increase in new subscribers and strong demand for its broadband and phone services...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Bristol's Earnings Rise
By Reuters...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Insider: Hoping to Turn Tepid Performance Into a Hot Offering
Today, small, inconsistently profitable investment banking firms are lining up to go public, hoping to capitalize on a sizzling capital markets boom...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Enron Prosecutor Attacks Theory of 2001 Collapse
A prosecutor sought Thursday to undercut Kenneth L. Lay's assertion that short sellers were part of a "conspiracy" that caused Enron's downfall...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
G.O.P. Senators Hurry to Quell Furor Over Gas
Proposals include rebates for taxpayers, possible taxes on oil-industry profits, and the opening of drilling in the Arctic...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Gazprom Makes an Energy Deal With BASF
The company is seeking to acquire energy businesses to add to its assets across Europe, while it is planning to build pipelines to the north in the Baltic Sea and south in Turkey...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Street Scene: Wanted: Lawyers With a Skill Set in Finance
Many law firms are riding the private equity boom and are expanding practices and hiring more lawyers as a result, allowing lawyers with the right skills their pick of jobs...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Exxon Reports 7% Increase in Earnings; Shares Fall
Exxon did not seek to minimize its earnings this quarter but said it was not to blame for the high cost of gasoline...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Intel Plans a Revamping in an Effort to Save $1 Billion
Intel said that it planned a reorganization aimed at greater efficiencies and reduced costs after another quarter of declining profit and lost market share...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
[TS] Why Do Firms Pay Investors Who Sell?
Companies may not try to buy high and sell low, but all too often it happens when they set out to buy the asset they ought to know best: their own shares...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Advertising: Interpublic Is Moving Closer to a Big Consolidation
The Interpublic Group is working on plans to combine Draft and Foote Cone & Belding, two of its four largest worldwide agencies...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
China Raises Rates to Slow Its Economy
The action aims to slow a surge in investment and it may potentially brake China's voracious appetite on world markets for oil and other commodities...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
The Fed May Stand Back and Watch the Numbers for a While
The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, indicated on Thursday that the central bank was ready for a cautious experiment...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Pfizer Shareholders Vote to Elect Directors but Show Concern Over Pay
Two directors on the board's compensation committee received opposition from more than a fifth of the votes cast, indicating that executive pay is of concern to shareholders...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Where Wall Street Meets to Eat, the Last Lunch
The Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, a wood-paneled dining room that has served Wall Street since 1898, is closing at the end of business Friday...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
U.S. Economy Still Expanding at Rapid Pace
Forecasters expect the Commerce Department to report that the economy grew about 5 percent, the biggest increase since 2003...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Is Microsoft Preparing Big Attack?
In its quarterly report, Microsoft revealed a significant increase in spending, which could indicate the company is preparing to take on its online rivals...
New York Times - April 28, 2006
Colombia ex-head's sister killed
The sister of former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria is killed during an apparent kidnapping attempt...
BBC News - April 28, 2006
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