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US News Archive for July 2007:
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Gore?s Son Arrested on Drug and Speeding Charges
Al Gore III, 24, was driving a blue Toyota Prius about 100 miles an hour and a deputy found marijuana and a clutch of prescription pills, the sheriff?s department said...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Landslide Buries Bus in Mexico
A landslide completely buried a bus carrying at least 40 passengers in the mountains of southern Puebla state this morning, killing all on board...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Solider Enters a 10k Run From Iraq
William G. Halicks in Iraq was runner No. 1 in the 2007 Peachtree Road Race, the largest 10K run in the world, normally run a world away in Atlanta...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Weather Threatens Capital Celebration
Mother Nature is creating a disruption for July Fourth activities at the nation's capital...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
West, Israel Still Wary of Hamas
Western and Israeli officials said there would be no immediate change to their policies toward Hamas as a result of its role in securing the release of Alan Johnston...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
23-Year-Old Eats His Way to Hot Dog Title
Joey Chestnut ate a world-record 66 hot dogs to unseat the six-time champ, Takeru Kobayashi, at the Nathan?s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
After Iraq, Contractors Face Mental Health Issues
Many private workers are returning home with combat-related mental health problems, but their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Flood of Legal Immigrants Seeks to Become Citizens
New feelings of insecurity in immigrant communities is helping fuel a rise in the number of legal immigrants seeking to become United States citizens...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
State of the Art: IPhone-Free Cellphone News
T-Mobile had the misfortune to announce a new product last week that may be as game-changing as Apple?s...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Hunstman Gets Higher Bid From Apollo
Hexion Specialty Chemical, a company owned by Apollo, on Tuesday offered $10.4 billion for Huntsman, little more than a week after the company agreed to a deal with a unit of Access Industries...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
US petrol demand lifts oil prices
Global oil prices set a 10-month high, breaking through the $73 a barrel level due to high US petrol demand...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Sochi hosts 2014 Winter Olympics
Russia's Sochi is chosen to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, beating South Korean and Austrian cities...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Infamous Pinochet-era agent dies
One of the most notorious figures from Chile's former military regime, Osvaldo Romo, has died in prison...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Drought Saps the Southeast, and Its Farmers
The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Nadal Beats Soderling and the Rain at Wimbledon
The rain-delayed, five-day passion play at Wimbledon ended today with Rafael Nadal defeating Robin Soderling...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Bush Defends Military Buildup in Iraq
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) -- President Bush on Wednesday defended the U.S. military buildup in Iraq in a patriotic Fourth of July speech, saying victory will require ''more patience, more courage and more sacrifice.''...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Interstate Spat Develops Over Raritan Bay Clams
Officials in New York complain that New Jersey baymen are going across the state line to dig in New York?s bottom...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Republicans Trail Democrats in Fund-Raising
The fund-raising totals underscored the tough political environment for Republicans candidates...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Chrysler Signs China Manufacturing Deal
Chrysler?s deal with the Chinese automaker, Chery, is the first attempt by a U.S. automaker to use China as a manufacturing base for world markets...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Harnessing the 'Bill Clinton effect'
As former US President Bill Clinton makes his first major appearances with wife Hillary on the campaign trail, will he be an asset or liability?...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Grim statistics in Mexico's drugs war
The BBC's Duncan Kennedy reports on the grim statistics surrounding Mexico's deadly drug wars...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
A black man in the White House?
The BBC's Nick Bryant charts the progress of the black community in US politics...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
EU-Brazil landmark summit held
Leaders gather in the Portuguese capital for the first summit between the European Union and Brazil...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Warming 'made lake vanish'
Experts in Chile say the disappearance of a lake in the south of the country was caused by climate change...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Pizarro goals send Peru through
Claudio Pizarro's late equaliser ensures Peru join Venezuela and Uruguay in the last eight of the Copa America...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Cruise film banned at Berlin site
Actor Tom Cruise and the makers of his new movie are banned from filming at a Berlin memorial site...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Colombia hostages in video appeal
Colombian rebels release a video of seven hostages urging the government to make a deal to free them...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Chavez issues trade bloc deadline
President Chavez sets a September deadline for Brazil and Paraguay to back Venezuela's Mercosur bid...
BBC News - July 4, 2007
Traveler?s TB Not as Severe as Officials Thought
New tests show that the multiple-drug-resistant TB is still dangerous, but susceptible to more drug treatments...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Drought Is Sapping the Southeast, and Its Farmers
The most severe drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Summertime. Fish Jumping. That?s Trouble.
Florida?s season of ?sturgeon strikes? ? collisions between the leaping fish and hapless boaters ? is under way...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Romney and Giuliani Trail Democrats in Fund-Raising
The fund-raising totals underscored the tough political environment for Republicans and the big money advantage that the Democrats have built so far...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Bush Rationale on Libby Stirs Legal Debate
President Bush drew on the same array of arguments about the federal sentencing system strenuously opposed by his own Justice Department...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
World Business Briefing: The Netherlands: ABN Amro Names Executives
ABN Amro Holding hired Tomasz Stadnik and Chris Kelly from the Credit Suisse Group to run emerging markets fixed income at its asset management unit. The two succeed Raphael Kassin, who joined Credit Suisse in April after building up ABN Amro?s emerging market debt funds. Mr. Stadnik and Mr. Kelly jointly managed $1.5 billion of emerging market debt at Credit Suisse...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
World Business Briefing: Media Company Is Acquired and Then Divided
Two Australian media companies, the Macquarie Media Group and Fairfax Media, began a $1.08 billion bid for Southern Cross Broadcasting...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Bombardier Gets Order From Mesa Air
Bombardier said the Mesa Air Group, a commuter airline, will buy 10 of its CRJ700 regional jets in an order valued at $334 million...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
World Business Briefing: Russia: Chief Executive Raises Stake in Lukoil
Lukoil?s chief executive, Vagit Alekperov, bought 18.35 million shares in the company for $1.4 billion...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
EBay to Be Rival of Craigslist in Online Classifieds
EBay, the Internet auction leader, has quietly introduced a new online classified advertising service in the United States...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
E.P.A. and Dow in Talks on Dioxin Cleanup at Main Factory
The negotiations have been over the timing and procedures to clean up three areas of dioxin-contaminated sediments in a Michigan river...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Copper Producer Is Acquired by Rival
Teck Cominco, a mining company and metals producer, has agreed to buy Aur Resources for 4.1 billion Canadian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash and stock...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Alcan Says No to New Talks With Alcoa
The Canadian aluminum maker Alcan has denied a request by a rival, Alcoa, for further talks on Alcoa?s hostile $27.5 billion takeover bid...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
S.E.C. Closes Inquiry Into Apollo Group
The Securities and Exchange Commission has ended its investigation into stock option award practices at the Apollo Group, an education company, the company said...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Takeover News Gives Shares a Mild Lift
The Dow Jones industrial average rose nearly 42 points in light trading on a smaller-than-expected drop in factory orders and new merger-and-acquisition activity...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Two Are Indicted in Insider Trading Case
A former Credit Suisse banker and a Pakistani financier are accused of conspiring to make illegal trades related to nine buyouts in which the bank was an adviser...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Judge Rejects Merck?s View on F.D.A. Issue
Food and Drug Administration approval of a drug label does not clear the manufacturer of claims that its warnings were inadequate, a judge ruled...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
F.D.A. Approves a Hip Resurfacing Implant
The regulator approved Corin?s Corment implant, bringing competition to the increasingly common procedure...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Factory Orders Drop by 0.5%, a Result Better Than Expected
May?s decline mostly reflected weaker demand for airplanes and housing-related goods. Demand for nondurable goods rose 1.6 percent...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
A Mortgage-Securities Hedge Fund Suspends Payouts
The Horizon ABS Fund said it made the decision when a major investor sought to leave the $650 million fund, managed by United Capital Markets...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
SAP, German Software Giant, Admits to Illicit Downloads
The company said a subsidiary had improperly obtained documents from its archrival Oracle but disputed the extent of the offense...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Big Investors Sound Note of Caution
Executives of private equity companies said that increasing levels of leverage in the financial markets should stir caution among investors...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Square Feet: Shops and Condos Crowding Out Gas Stations
When it comes to land for development, gasoline stations clean up nicely. As a result, they are steadily disappearing from New York City...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Painfully, Europeans Ponder Cutback in Wine Industry
Efforts to shore up the European wine industry by tearing out vineyards have set the stage for a debate as Europeans contemplate the cost of their love affair with the grape...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Investor Pushes Expansion at Kraft but Seeks Sale at Wendy?s
Kraft Foods, in which Nelson Peltz, an activist investor, has taken a 3 percent stake, said that it would offer $7.2 billion for the cookie unit of Group Danone...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Sarkozy Pressing to Simplify Aircraft Maker?s Leadership
The French president wants an agreement to streamline the dual French-German management at Airbus?s parent company, EADS...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Detroit?s Big 3 Lost Buyers Last Month
Detroit automakers? share of the American car market fell to a record low in June, foreshadowing another summer of deep discounts, cheap car loans and deals on leases...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Square Feet: Sears Responds to Its Critics With a Call for Patience
Since Kmart acquired Sears in 2005, Sears Holdings has prospered as a company, but the sales performance of its chains has continued to decline...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Thrill Rides for Investors
European theme parks are drawing investors, most notably from private equity funds...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Kohlberg Kravis Plans to Go Public
The firm immortalized in ?Barbarians at the Gate? filed documents for an offering that would raise $1.25 billion...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Blackstone to Acquire Hilton Hotels
The Blackstone Group announced that it would buy Hilton Hotels for $26 billion, or $47.50 a share, a 40 percent premium over its closing price on Monday...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
Say ?Hybrid? and Many People Will Hear ?Prius?
One reason for the success of the Toyota Prius may be that people who buy them want everyone to know they are driving a hybrid...
New York Times - July 4, 2007
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