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US News Archive for Octomber 2006:
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Leaders divided on NK nuke threat
The U.N. Security Council has put off a response to North Korea's threatened nuclear test until Wednesday, with the United States, France and China divided on the best way to react...
CNN - October 3, 2006
North Korea to conduct nuclear test
North Korea says it will conduct a nuclear test as part of measures to bolster its self-defense amid what it calls increasing U.S. hostility toward the communist regime...
CNN - October 3, 2006
Lawyer: Foley was molested, is gay
Former Rep. Mark Foley was molested by a clergyman between the ages of 13 and 15, and is gay, his attorney told reporters Tuesday. The announcement came after new reports of inappropriate messages Foley allegedly sent to former page...
CNN - October 3, 2006
Chinese Leader Is Urged to Reverse ‘Crackdown’
A group of foreign academics, lawyers, and activists sent an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao today...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Gunman May Have Planned Abuse
The man who seized control of a one-room Amish school on Monday apparently planned an extended stay, Pennsylvania State Police said today...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Bush Says He Is ‘Shocked’ by Scandal
President Bush made his first comments on the messages sent by Rep. Mark Foley to teenage Congressional pages...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Dow Closes at Record High
After days of flirting with its all-time peak, the Dow Jones industrial average finally set a new record this afternoon, closing at 11,727.34. The latest record came as oil prices fell about 3 percent and dropped below $60 a barrel for the first time since March...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
School killer 'molested relatives'
Pennsylvania schoolhouse killer Charles Carl Roberts IV said he molested minor family members 20 years ago and was dreaming about molesting again, police say...
CNN - October 3, 2006
Police: School shooter 'had dreams' of molesting kids
The man who killed five Amish schoolgirls and himself, on Monday told his wife he had molested several young relatives when he was 12 years old, and "had dreams" of molesting again...
CNN - October 3, 2006
GOP leadership engages in blame game
Fallout from the scandal involving former Republican Rep. Mark Foley continued as GOP leaders tried to assign blame and dig out from allegations of a cover-up just five weeks before the midterm elections...
CNN - October 3, 2006
Nobel in Physics Is Awarded to 2 Americans
The astronomers uncovered evidence about the origin of the universe and how it grew into galaxies...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Fatah Gunmen Threaten to Kill 3 Hamas Leaders
The Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades said they would be killed so “these filthy people can be made an example.”...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Dengue Fever Overwhelms New Delhi Hospitals
The government called an emergency meeting of health officials to try to control an outbreak that has left 14 dead...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
US mid-term battle in full swing
Can the Democrats get the US behind them in the mid-terms, asks the BBC's Paul Reynolds...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Diary: Crazy like a fox?
Richard Allen Greene in Washington continues his weekly diary charting the highlights of the important mid-term election campaign...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Kinky candidacy stirs up race
The BBC's James Coomarasamy travels to Texas to meet one of the most colourful candidates standing in the US mid-term elections...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Bishops ask McDonald's to up pay
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops calls on McDonald's to push for its tomato suppliers to pay higher wages...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Climate costs top summit agenda
Ministers from the world's top 20 polluting nations meet to consider the economic impact of climate change...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Five Amish schoolgirls now dead
Charles Carl Roberts IV was to his wife "loving, supportive, thoughtful." To his co-workers in rural Pennsylvania, Roberts was a milk truck driver whose mood had darkened in recent days. To himself, he was a ticking time bomb, consumed by a mysterious grudge that he had harbored for two decades. And to five young Amish schoolgirls, Roberts was judge, jury and executioner...
CNN - October 3, 2006
Man guns down Amish girls
Leaving behind letters to his wife and family, a local truck driver entered an Amish school, ordered the boys and older women out and then shot five young girls to death before killing himself, authorities said...
CNN - October 3, 2006
N. Korea 'to conduct nuclear test'
North Korea said Tuesday it will conduct a nuclear test as part of measures to bolster its self-defense amid what it calls increasing U.S. hostility toward the communist regime...
CNN - October 3, 2006
A Coming Papal Visit Focuses Anger Among the Turks
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Turkey in late November is likely to be a flash point for a surprisingly broad array of issues...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Pressure Grows for Republicans Over Foley Scandal
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert faced intensifying questions about the response to Representative Mark Foley’s messages to a teenage page...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
World Business Briefing: Europe, Asia
EUROPE...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
US petrol prices continue to fall
US motorists see petrol prices fall for the eighth week in a row, hitting their lowest level since February...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Gaming chief raps government
Head of UK gaming firm Sportingbet says the government should do more to help the sector in the US...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Rice courts moderate Arab forces
With the US vision for Middle East democracy stalling, Condoleezza Rice is turning to the "moderates" who may help counter extremism...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
American football: Eagles win
The Philadelphia Eagles trounce the Green Bay Packers 31-9 on Monday...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Baseball: Two managers sacked
Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants sack managers Dusty Baker and Felipe Alou respectively...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
US builder conned in UK scam
An American builder is conned out of $33,000 in a Manchester-based e-mail scam over a fake £4.6m inheritance...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Fugitive fights extradition to US
A fugitive tycoon fighting extradition from Namibia to the US is seeking bail to release him from Namibian custody...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Judge orders Bobby Brown arrest
Singer Bobby Brown could be arrested after failing to appear at a court hearing over child support payments...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Amazon plane 'black boxes' found
Rescue workers find the data recorders of a plane which crashed in Brazil on Friday killing all 155 on board...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Americans win Physics Nobel
Discoveries about the "oldest light" in the Universe earn John Mather and George Smoot a Nobel Prize for physics...
BBC News - October 3, 2006
Fourth girl dies in Amish killings
A fourth girl has died from injuries received when a gunman barricaded himself in an Amish school in Pennsylvania and opened fire, CNN has confirmed. Seven others are wounded and listed as critical. The gunman tied up female students and shot them in the head to avenge an incident 20 years ago, police say. The gunman then shot himself...
CNN - October 3, 2006
News Analysis: In Brazil Balloting, Leader Finds His Base May Turn to Sand
The runoff that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva neither wanted nor expected promises to be hard-fought and full of contrasts...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
C.I.A. Chief Warned Rice on Al Qaeda
The C.I.A. director briefed Condoleezza Rice on a looming threat from Al Qaeda two months before 9/11, a review of White House records found...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Man Shoots 11, Killing 4 Girls, in Amish School
A milk truck driver in Pennsylvania killed four young girls and wounded seven others before killing himself...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Bush, Fund-Raiser in Chief, Hits the Trail in Earnest
President Bush is spending much of the next 40 days on the road, even if many Republicans do not want to be seen with him...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Baseball Before Breakfast in Taiwan
Yankees’ pitcher Chien-Ming Wang’s success has created an island of Yankee fans halfway around the world...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Bridging a Racial Rift That Isn’t Black and White
The influx of Hispanic immigrants is changing race relations in many Southern towns, with blacks losing ground...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Pressure Grows for G.O.P. Over Foley Scandal
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert faced intensifying questions about the Republicans’ response to Representative Mark Foley’s messages to a page...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Boeing Promotes Head of Asian Sales
The Boeing Company has promoted Larry S. Dickenson to vice president of the commercial airplane sales unit in Seattle...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
6-Year Sentence in Trading Case
A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced a former F.B.I. agent to six years in prison for racketeering and securities fraud related to the inside-trading prosecution of a former stock picker, Anthony Elgindy...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Chief Leaves Mall Developer That Is Subject of S.E.C. Inquiry
The Mills Corporation, a shopping mall developer whose accounting practices are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, said Monday that its chief executive retired over the weekend — the second top executive to leave the company recently...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Paramount and Bank in Financing Pact
The Paramount Motion Picture Group said it had created a $300 million production fund with Dresdner Kleinwort to make 30 movies...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Terror Attacks Often Covered by Insurance, a Report Says
Insurance coverage for a terrorist attack has expanded significantly in the last five years, a Bush administration report said...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Ex-A.I.G. Chief Wins Right to See Memos
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Gilead Sciences Buys Myogen for $2.5 Billion
Gilead Sciences, which makes drugs to treat H.I.V., announced plans to buy a rival, Myogen, for about $2.5 billion in cash...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Frequent Flier: Design Opportunities, Everywhere You Look
I’M always paying attention to design when I go places. I can’t help but look at each hotel, each aircraft interior, each terminal, with a critical eye...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Memo Pad
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New York Times - October 3, 2006
Report Shows H.P. Sought Expert to Help Find Leak
Hewlett-Packard sought the advice of an intelligence specialist, Brian Jenkins of the RAND Corporation, according to the report...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Nasdaq to Increase Annual Listing Fees
Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. plans to raise the annual fees it charges the almost 3,200 companies that list their shares on the electronic marketplace...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Stocks & Bonds: Nasdaq Slides Again on a New Hint of Slowing Growth
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Report Cites Factory Cuts in Slowdown of Economy
Manufacturing in the United States expanded less last month than forecast as factories cut payrolls and reduced inventories, contributing to a slowdown in the economy, according to a report released Monday...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Loosening Up on Expense Accounts
Noting the toll of travel stress, many companies are beginning to recognize the limits of what employees will put up with...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Trying to Keep TV Appeal as Housing Reality Sets in
Several reality shows based on home-buying and selling are being broadcast as the real estate boom is a fading memory...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Advertising: In Britain, a Breakup May Not Mean It’s Over
Lawyers say a new regulation threatens to make advertising account shifts prohibitively expensive or simply counterproductive...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Online-Gambling Shares Plunge on Passage of U.S. Crackdown Law
The U.S. government’s move to criminalize the processing of online wagers led to a Black Mondy for the online-gambling industry...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
In Namibia Court, Arguments Over Bail for Options Fugitive
Jacob Alexander, wanted in the United States on stock option fraud charges, showed every sign he would fight extradition...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Oases of Modernity Amid India’s Desert of Public Services
India’s special economic zones, or S.E.Z.’s, could offer a partial solution to the extreme weaknesses in India’s infrastructure...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
If Preppies Took Over Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart has begun quietly testing a new look for its 1.3 million workers in the United States: khaki pants and a navy blue polo shirt...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Telecom Deal by Singapore Roused Thais
Among the many measures of a successful foreign investment, helping to set off a coup d’état is definitely not one of them...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
$15 Billion Deal for Harrah’s May Put Other Casinos Into Play
Private equity firms have found a new business where they can place their multibillion-dollar bets: gambling...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Is Th-Th-That All, Folks?
With more than a dozen computer-animated movies being readied for release, Hollywood is facing the prospect of serious viewer fatigue...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Across Nation, Housing Costs Rise as Burden
New Census Bureau data illustrate the crushing impact of escalating real estate prices and stagnant incomes...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
Big Board Delays Plan on Voting
The New York Stock Exchange has quietly pushed back a plan that would prevent brokers from voting their clients’ shares in board elections when the stockholders have given no voting instructions of their own...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
On the Road: Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living
In a corporate jet flying 37,000 feet above the Amazon rainforest, I heard the three words I will never forget: “We’ve been hit.”...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
G.M. Applying Its Sales Skills to Its Comeback Story
When the board of General Motors meets Tuesday it must try to answer the question: Is the company’s turnaround real?...
New York Times - October 3, 2006
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