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US News Archive for November 2005:
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Police battle summit rioters
Violence broke out Friday on the streets of an Argentine town holding the Summit of the Americas. At least one building, a bank, was seen burning as armed police on motorcycles and supported by officers in riot gear were facing off against the rioters...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Escaped murderer could 'come after anybody'
The escape of a death row inmate from a Houston, Texas, jail was entirely the result of human error, a sheriff's spokesman said Friday, as authorities cast a wide net for the man who fled the day before. The family of one of his victims has been advised to go into hiding...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Alcohol Test Inconclusive in Lake George Boat Sinking
Federal investigators did not establish whether the boat captain was under the influence at the time of the disaster...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Protesters greet Bush
Expectations of a face-off between President Bush and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez crackled Friday as the fourth Summit of the Americas opened at this resort city...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Job weakness spreading
Job growth resumed in October but came in well below economists' forecasts, due to softness in the labor market nationwide, rather than disruptions from Hurricane Katrina. The unemployment rate edged down to 5 percent, in part because a large number of people weren't counted as part of the labor force after the storms...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Senate backs arctic drilling
The Senate insisted Thursday on opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling after being blocked by environmentalists for decades, then voted overwhelmingly to prohibit exporting any of the oil pumped from the region...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Bush backs human rights
As thousands of protesters demonstrated against him outside the Summit of the Americas, President Bush told reporters that he viewed his participation as an "opportunity to positively affirm our belief in democracy and human rights and human dignity."...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Rebel Attacks Kill at Least 16 in Iraq
Insurgent attacks came as Shiite Arabs across the country began celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Thousands Protest Against Bush at Summit in Argentina
The Summit of the Americas opened today, with the Venezuelan leader vowing to "bury" a free trade deal backed by President Bush...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Bush Faces a Fight at Free Trade Talks in Argentina
After one of the worst weeks of his presidency, President Bush was greeted by strong anti-American sentiment and taunts from Venezuela's populist president...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Businesses Pull Back on Hiring in October
Wages rose at their fastest clip in more than two years, leaving open the chance that the hiring slowdown may be temporary...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
'Gas muzzlers' challenge Bush
President George W Bush is facing a rebellion by several states over his approach to climate change...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
US Senate rejects Alaska oil ban
The US Senate votes down an attempt to ban oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
US jobless rate down post-Katrina
A total of 56,000 new jobs were created in the US in October, as the jobless rate fell from 5.1% to 5%...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
Bid to seal off US-Mexico border
A US Republican proposes a wall along the entire length of the US-Mexico border to fight immigration...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
Fiery riots spread beyond Paris
Rioting erupts for an eighth straight night in the impoverished suburbs of Paris, with angry youths setting fire to a school, a bus depot, three warehouses and hundreds of vehicles...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Bush arrives for Americas summit
U.S. President George W. Bush is in Argentina for a summit with other leaders from across the Americas, where trade issues and fighting poverty are expected to be major topics of conversation...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Killer cons way out of jail
A Texas death row inmate escaped from the Harris County Jail in Houston on Thursday, dressed in civilian clothes and carrying identification indicating he worked in the attorney general's office, a sheriff's department spokesman said...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Treasures Emerge From Field of the Dead at Maidanek
A team of archaeologists in Poland transformed the former death camp into a crime scene...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Without Fanfare, Building of New Trade Center Starts
Thirty-nine years after concrete was poured for the first trade center, work began Thursday on Santiago Calatrava's transportation hub at ground zero...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Celebrating Rosa Parks' life
The funeral of US civil rights icon Rosa Parks was a celebration of a life, the BBC's Daniela Relph reports...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
Cricket: Windies struggle
Glenn McGrath takes 4-58 as West Indies struggle to 182-6 on day two against Australia in Brisbane...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
Juanes wins three Latin Grammys
Colombian rocker Juanes wins three Latin Grammy awards, shown in Spanish for the first time on Thursday...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
US Senate backs spending cuts
The US Senate approves $35bn worth of spending cuts in an effort to reduce the country's huge budget deficit...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
Office e-mail can bite back
Witty remarks, jokes and gripes e-mailed at the office can get the sender fired, arrested or sued. Or, as ex-FEMA chief Mike Brown found out, those e-mails can become embarrassing fodder for critics...
CNN - November 4, 2005
January hearings for Alito
Confirmation hearings are to begin in January for Samuel Alito, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court seat now held by Sandra Day O'Connor, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday...
CNN - November 4, 2005
Bush arrives for Summit of the Americas
President Bush arrives in Argentina for a summit with other leaders from across the Americas, where trade issues and fighting poverty are expected to be major topics of conversation...
CNN - November 4, 2005
The Former Aide: Former Cheney Aide Enters Not-Guilty Plea in Leak Charges
Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. signaled at his arraignment that they would seek to raise First Amendment issues in his defense...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Voted in, Hamas Sets a West Bank City Astir
Eyes are fixed on Qalqilya, where the radical Islamic group Hamas won every seat on the city council in a major shock for Fatah and the Palestinian Authority...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
The Workers: In Louisiana, Worker Influx Causes Ill Will
A camp near Good Hope for out-of-state workers cleaning up after the flood is causing consternation across Louisiana...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
House Delays Vote on Terror Suspect Treatment
The House Republican leadership has delayed a vote on a proposed ban against cruel and degrading treatment of prisoners in American custody...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Ideology Serves as a Wild Card on Court Pick
As Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. makes the rounds on Capitol Hill, debate has been renewed on the extent to which a nominee should be judged on his political leanings...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
[TS] Pricing Drugs as if They Were Cars
Within the U.S., it turns out that drug prices are set in the same way that used-car prices are set: the better you are at negotiating, the less you pay...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Movie Review | 'The Last Mogul': The Shimmer and Tarnish Around a Tinseltown Titan
Lew Wasserman, who rose from the streets of Cleveland to become the most powerful man in Hollywood, is the subject of this absorbing documentary...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Movie Review | 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price': A Look Inside the Outsize Company That Is the Biggest Retailer on the Planet
Robert Greenwald's documentary makes a devastating case against the largest retailer on the planet...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Ratings Gratification Is Delayed
When the overnight ratings for Tuesday's prime-time network shows did not arrive from Nielsen Media Research as scheduled, network executives wanted to know why...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Comcast Posts Flat Profit
The Comcast Corporation said that its third-quarter profit was flat while revenue from digital cable and high-speed Internet services improved...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Accounting Board to Vote on Pension Rule
The board that writes the accounting regulations for American companies is scheduled to vote next week on whether to revise the rule for pensions...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
S.E.C. Settles ImClone Insider Trading Suit
Two friends of Samuel Waksal, the former chief executive of ImClone Systems, have agreed to pay a total of $2.77 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of insider trading in the company's shares...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
MCI Reports Profit, Though Sales Fall
MCI posted its second consecutive quarterly profit since emerging from bankruptcy, helped by lower administrative costs and a tax reduction...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
MCI Reports Profit, Though Sales Fall
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Merck Ruling and Two Reports Help Buoy the Markets
By Reuters...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
New Medicare Plan Presents a Drug Benefit Conundrum
Retirees are now weighing the benefits of coverage given to them by their former employers against the new Medicare drug insurance program that begins in January...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Northwest Ranked Most Tardy Carrier
Northwest Airlines had the worst on-time performance in September among 20 airlines tracked by the Department of Transportation...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Greenspan Urges Congress to Offset Any Tax Cuts
Alan Greenspan told lawmakers that they should not extend President Bush's tax cuts if they could not make up for the lost revenue with savings in other areas...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Volkswagen and BMW Profits Miss Forecasts
Volkswagen and BMW became the latest European carmakers to post results that were hurt by a strong euro, high raw material prices and tough competition...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Wachovia Plans Return to Credit Card Market
Wachovia announced plans to re-enter the credit card market as a direct issuer, starting in January 2006...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Tufts Is Getting Gift of $100 Million, With Rare Strings
The gift from the founder of eBay must be invested in organizations that make small loans to poor people in developing countries, a field known as microfinance...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Broadcasting Ex-Chairman Is Removed From Board
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the former head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, was forced to step down as a member of its board...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Bears Have Their Day
Short sellers are having one of their rare days in the sun...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Reorganizing, Sara Lee's Profit Slides
By Reuters...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Productivity Growth Nearly Doubled in the Third Quarter
The data, which showed that the economy was growing at a strong clip without signs of widespread inflation, surprised many analysts...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
In Short Order, Oracle Loses One of Three Co-Presidents
Gregory B. Maffei, the chief financial officer and a co-president of the Oracle Corporation, resigned less than five months after he joined the company...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
World Bank's Former Chief Will Be Hired by Citigroup
Citigroup said that James D. Wolfensohn would serve as a global strategy adviser to senior management and clients...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Bush at Hemisphere Talks: Trade Fight Awaits
Venezuela's populist president, Hugo Chávez, is using the international summit meeting in Argentina to protest the Bush administration's free trade message...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Advertising: CBS to Acquire CSTV for $325 Million in Stock
Viacom announced that the new CBS Corporation would acquire CSTV Networks, a cable channel and confederation of Web sites that focus entirely on college sports...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Ford to Subsidize Ethanol Pumps in Midwest
Ford, in partnership with the ethanol producer VeraSun Energy, plans to announce that it will subsidize the installation of ethanol fuel pumps at gas stations around the Midwest...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Prospects for Revising the Guidant-Johnson Deal Dim
The prospects that Johnson & Johnson will reach a new agreement to buy Guidant appeared to diminish as the companies remained at an impasse over the price of a renegotiated deal...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
VC Nation: Excited and Wary, Investors Look at China
Silicon Valley's views of investment in China have tended to swing between wild optimism and deep anxiety - with the anxiety going beyond a fear of losing money...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time?
Amazon.com and Google are developing systems to allow consumers to purchase online access to parts of books...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
The Greenspan Effect: To Fight Rising Prices, Fed Nominee May Need New Weapons
Ben Bernanke has signaled a readiness to fight inflation with a different set of tools than the current Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Retail Sales Rose 4.4% Last Month
Retailers reported surprisingly strong results for October, despite fears that high fuel costs would keep shoppers at home...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
At Tokyo Auto Show, a Focus on Fuel, Not Fenders
Carmakers are competing at the Tokyo Motor Show to send car buyers a message: They have learned the lessons of the Prius...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Merck Prevails in Second Vioxx Case on Heart Attack
The drug giant's victory could slow the flood of personal-injury lawsuits against the company, legal experts say...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Financial Times Editor Quits Over Differences With Owner
The editor of The Financial Times, Andrew Gowers, resigned over "strategic differences" with Pearson, the newspaper's owner...
New York Times - November 4, 2005
Tennis: Roddick reaches last eight
Top seed Andy Roddick thrashes Dominik Hrbarty to reach the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
January Senate hearing for Alito
Senate hearings on US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito are to start in January, it has emerged...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
US 'not warned over Niger claim'
An Italian senator withdraws claims that Rome warned the US about forged intelligence used to justify the Iraq war...
BBC News - November 4, 2005
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