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US News Archive for January 2006:
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Joy, then sorrow at mine
Grief and anger replaced jubilation early today as mine officials announced that, despite earlier reports, only one of 13 trapped miners had survived a West Virginia mining accident. The miners' families demand answers...
CNN - January 4, 2006
Israel's Sharon fighting for life
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is in surgery, fighting for life after suffering a "significant stroke". Power has been transferred to Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, officials say. Sharon, 77, has been running for a third term as PM...
CNN - January 4, 2006
Bush, politicians to donate Abramoff contributions
President Bush, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his successor Roy Blunt Wednesday joined the growing list of officials shedding political donations from Jack Abramoff, the once powerful lobbyist who has agreed to testify in a broad-ranging political corruption investigation...
CNN - January 4, 2006
Israeli prime minister suffers 'significant stroke'
Power has been transferred from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after Sharon suffered a "significant stroke" Wednesday and was under anesthesia and on a respirator, officials said...
CNN - January 4, 2006
False Report of 12 Survivors Was Result of Miscommunications
A series of miscues among rescue workers exhausted from 30 hours of searching led to the news that 12 miners had survived...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Supreme Court Allows Transfer of Padilla to Civilian Court
The justices overruled a lower court, which had attempted to block the transfer as part of a rebuke to the White House...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
In Address, Pataki Focuses on Taxes and Crime
Gov. George E. Pataki proposed ambitious tax cuts and tough anti-crime measures, two issues that could position him for a run at national office...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Clashes mar Chile copper strike
Police and copper workers clash during a strike over pay in Chile, the world's biggest copper producer...
BBC News - January 4, 2006
Grief, fury over mine tragedy
Sole surviving miner is in critical condition Initial reports said 12 miners found alive Celebrations ended after three hours of false hope "Miscommunication" blamed for early reports Official: Miners built barricade before dying ...
CNN - January 4, 2006
Bush campaign to donate Abramoff contributions
President Bush's re-election campaign will give the American Heart Association thousands of dollars in campaign contributions connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the White House said Wednesday, as the government pushed a sweeping corruption investigation...
CNN - January 4, 2006
36 killed at Iraqi funeral
Thirty-six people have been killed and 40 wounded when a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest detonated at a funeral procession, authorities say...
CNN - January 4, 2006
After Reports to the Contrary, Only One Miner Survives
The deaths and the reversal brought a shocking end to a rescue effort that had dominated the airwaves since early Monday...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Lobbyist Set to Plead Guilty in Florida; Second Plea in 2 Days
After pleading guilty to three charges in Washington, Jack Abramoff was set to plead guilty in Miami to two charges...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Ted Koppel Joins Discovery Channel
The deal includes a series of special news programs, at least six a year, with the first one expected in the fall...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Chicago's policing lesson
Chicago's community policing plan has influenced projects and proposals on UK neighbourhood policing, says the BBC's Steve Swan...
BBC News - January 4, 2006
Mexico's wine renaissance
The Guadalupe Valley in Mexico is aiming to regain its standing in the international wine market, writes Matt Wells...
BBC News - January 4, 2006
Tennis: Serena returns to defeat
Serena Williams loses 6-3 6-1 to Elena Dementieva at the Champions Challenge on her comeback from injury...
BBC News - January 4, 2006
Bolivian leader in Madrid talks
Bolivia's president-elect Evo Morales is in Spain as part of an international tour ahead of his inauguration...
BBC News - January 4, 2006
Shock as 12 out of 13 miners dead
Earlier reports said 12 miners found alive Family members' celebrations turn into grief "Miscommunication" blamed for erroneous reports One miner found dead before other 12 discovered Sole surviving miner is in critical condition...
CNN - January 4, 2006
Russia, Ukraine reach natural gas deal
Russian and Ukrainian energy officials reached a deal Wednesday morning, ending a dispute over the price of Russian natural gas that caused shortages in the Ukraine and throughout Western Europe...
CNN - January 4, 2006
Grief, anger at mine site
Grief and anger replaced jubilation early today as mine officials announced that, despite earlier reports, only one of 13 trapped miners had survived a West Virginia mining accident...
CNN - January 4, 2006
G.M. Cuts the Price on 2 Cars in China
SHANGHAI, Wednesday, Jan. 4 (Reuters) - The General Motors Corporation, the auto maker, has cut prices on two of its made-in-China models by as much as 11 percent as competition heats up in the world's third-largest vehicle market...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Challenges for US economy
Ben Bernanke, the new head of the head of the US Federal Reserve, is coming into power at a critical time for the US economy...
BBC News - January 4, 2006
NFL: Oakland fire coach Turner
Oakland Raiders fire head coach Norv Turner after two losing seasons...
BBC News - January 4, 2006
Church bells herald rescued miners
Twelve U.S. miners who have been trapped underground for more than three days are alive, a friend of one of the men told CNN. Hours earlier, the body of the 13th missing miner had been found dead...
CNN - January 4, 2006
EU to meet on Russian gas dispute
Energy ministers from the European Union plan to meet Wednesday in emergency session in Brussels to discuss how to respond to this week's short-lived attempt by Russia to boost the price for natural gas to Ukraine...
CNN - January 4, 2006
Body found by mine rescuers
Anxious families were told that body of one of 13 miners trapped since Monday has been found. "Everyone in the church is just devastated," Red Cross volunteer Tamila Swigers said, "breaking down" and suffering panic attacks...
CNN - January 4, 2006
Meerut Journal: Is Public Romance a Right? The Kama Sutra Doesn't Say
A police crackdown on public affection in India has revealed a yawning divide on notions of social mores...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
News Analysis: Tremors Across Washington as Lobbyist Will Aid Inquiry
Jack Abramoff's plea deal has thrust him into the role of a corporate insider turning against the company...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Agency First Acted on Its Own to Broaden Spying, Files Show
The N.S.A. acted without a formal directive from President Bush to expand its domestic surveillance in the weeks after 9/11...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Students Return to Big Changes in New Orleans
Hundreds of children returned to schools that survived Hurricane Katrina for a much-anticipated first day of class...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Woman in the News: Next Council Speaker in New York Is a Doer and a Trailblazer
As an openly gay woman, Councilwoman Christine C. Quinn could become a trailblazer for other gay politicians...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
12 Miners Are Found Alive, Family Members Say
Forty-one hours after an explosion trapped 13 men in a West Virginia coal mine, 12 of the miners were found alive Tuesday night...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
News Corp. Promotion
News Corporation promoted Jeremy Philips to oversee its Internet acquisitions and strategy...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Square Feet: In Commercial Leasing, a State of Balance
Office vacancy rates declined in Manhattan in 2005, but rents increased only modestly...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Sports Media and Business: When It Comes to N.F.L., CBS and Fox Claim No. 1
In this game of claim and counterclaim, CBS and Fox are both correct, because they used authorized, but different measurements from Nielsen Media Research...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
S.E.C. Names Counsel
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (Reuters) - Brian G. Cartwright, a securities lawyer who was previously an astrophysicist, has been named general counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency said on Tuesday...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Motorola Starts Radio Service for Cellphones
Motorola expects iRadio, featuring 435 channels, to be sold by wireless service providers to their subscribers for between $7 and $10 a month...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
A Fed Signal Cheers Investors, Sending Markets Higher
Stocks began the year yesterday with their biggest rally since October, sparked by a signal that the Federal Reserve may soon stop raising interest rates...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Forecast for Google Put at $600 a Share
The investment firm Piper Jaffray raised its price target on shares of the Internet search provider to $600 from $445, a 35 percent increase...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Windows Patch Not Ready
Microsoft said it would be at least a week before it could fix a weakness that might let an attacker take control of a computer connected to the Internet...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Mirant, Power Producer, Exits Bankruptcy
The Mirant Corporation said it would complete a first round of distributions to creditors this month...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
4 Big Accountants Settle Federal Suits
BearingPoint, Ernst & Young, Booz Allen Hamilton and KPMG will pay a combined $25.6 million to settle federal claims that the four consulting firms overcharged the government for travel expenses...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Advertising: A Network for Women Tries Bawdy
Since its debut in 2000, the cable network Oxygen has gradually replaced its wholesome tone with fare like a call-in sex advice show...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Office Condos Put to the Test in Chicago
Office condominiums, a growing segment of the commercial real estate market in cities like Atlanta and Phoenix, is still relatively unknown in the Midwest...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Pilgrim's Pride Predicts Lower Earnings
PITTSBURG, Tex., Jan. 3 (AP) - The Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, the second-largest poultry producer in the United States and Mexico, said Tuesday that its first-quarter earnings would fall more than 50 percent short of its expectations, setting off a 24 percent decline in its share price...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Ex-Broker Accused of Insider Trading
A former stockbroker was charged with illegally trading on information his girlfriend gave him about Applied Materials' acquisition of Metron Technology...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
German Steel Maker Raises Bid for Canadian Company
Thyssen- Krupp, the German steel maker, matched a hostile bid from Arcelor of Luxembourg...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Rambus Seals $75 Million Licensing Deal
Rambus said the chip maker Advanced Micro Devices had agreed to pay $75 million over five years to license Rambus technology for increasing the speed at which computer chips communicate with each other...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Oil Investors Parry China's Move for Foreign Energy Deals
China's efforts to secure reliable supplies of foreign energy were dealt a setback by independent shareholders of one of the country's top oil companies...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Walgreen Profit Increases 5%, Aided by Generic Drug Sales
The company said it earned $345.6 million, or 34 cents a share, in the three months ended Nov. 30...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
6 Ex-Putnam Officials Accused of Fraud
Six former officials of Putnam Investments have been accused in a lawsuit of defrauding several mutual funds and a corporate retirement plan of $4 million...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Rebuilding Slows, as Does Factory Growth
Growth in manufacturing slowed in December as the economic effects waned from the rebound from Gulf Coast hurricanes...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Mellon Combines 2 Units Into a New Group
Dreyfus Mutual Fund was combined with Institutional Asset Management group to create a new organization called Mellon Asset Management...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
U.S. Not Told of 2 Deaths During Study of Heart Drug
The Scios unit of Johnson & Johnson said the company failed to tell regulators about the deaths of two patients in a trial of Natrecor...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Judge Orders Ex-HealthSouth Chief to Repay Nearly $48 Million
A judge in Alabama ruled that Richard M. Scrushy must repay his former company more than $47.8 million in bonuses...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
10 Nations Told to Halt Caviar Exports to Save Sturgeon
Caviar, the briny eggs of sturgeon, is one of the most coveted and lucrative wildlife products...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Ukraine Concedes It Took Gas From Pipeline but Says It Had the Contractual Right
Ukraine said it had a contractual right to the fuel under an agreement with the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Gas Halt May Produce Big Ripples in European Policy
Russia's shutdown of natural gas lines to Ukraine lasted less than 48 hours, but the repercussions could last far longer...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Market Place: Parent Weighs Abandoning Credit Card Processing Unit
First Data has in recent years been losing big customers to its chief rival...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Dow Jones Turns to Financial Side in Naming Its Next Chief Executive
Richard F. Zannino's appointment as chief executive ends the reign of one of the storied power couples of the corporate media world...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
Fed's Notes Offer Hope of a Brake on Rates
Officials signaled that they are entering a new period of uncertainty at the same time that Alan Greenspan prepares to retire...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
To Battle, Armed With Shares
The activist investor, armed with a handful of shares and a megaphone, is changing corporate America and the deal-making landscape...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
BASF Bids for Engelhard to Expand Into Car Parts
The BASF Group of Germany made a hostile takeover bid for Engelhard, the company that invented the catalytic converter for cars...
New York Times - January 4, 2006
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