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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Laura Bush visits Peruvian hospital
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer expecting baby No. 2
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for June 2007:
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House Passes Stem Cell Bill Despite Veto Threat
The 247 to 176 sent the bipartisan measure to the White House that President Bush has pledged to veto...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Congestion Pricing Proposal Races Ahead
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg?s plan won qualified support from Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a federal official...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Kenyan Police Kill 11 in Nairobi Gang Crackdown
Thursday's deaths brings the toll to at least 33 dead so far since hundreds of police swept down on the Mathare slum...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
[TS] High & Low Finance: Candidates? Tax Plans Are a Mystery
If any of the presidential candidates are thinking seriously about tax reform, they have kept the information to themselves. And that is a pity...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Vodafone Investors Seek Verizon Wireless Spinoff
A group of shareholders on Thursday suggested that Vodafone give its investors tracking shares representing the company?s 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Inflation Fears Again Chill the Markets
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down nearly 200 points, or 1.5 percent...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
US consumer borrowing slows down
US consumer borrowing grew at its slowest rate in six months during April, Federal Reserve figures show...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Pepsi buys Ukrainian drinks firm
The world's second largest drinks firm, Pepsico, expands into Ukraine, one of Europe's fastest growing markets...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
US 'war tsar' had doubts on surge
Lt Gen Douglas Lute, nominated to become the first US 'war tsar', says he had doubts over the surge strategy...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
House defies Bush over stem cells
The US House votes to ease curbs on funding stem-cell research, defying President Bush's threat to veto the bill...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Chile prosecutor firm on Fujimori
A Chilean prosecutor recommends that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori be extradited to Peru...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Lute Tells Senate U.S. Must Prevail in Iraq
Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said that ?America?s at war, and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan represent what we in the military call the main effort in the long war.?...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
North Korea Fires Missiles Off Coast
The missile test drew an annoyed reaction from the United States and a dismissive one from South Korea...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
State School Standards Vary Widely in Study
What students must learn to be deemed proficient varies drastically from state to state, a report said...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
India Has Fewer AIDS Victims Than Thought
If the results of a survey are correct, India is no longer the world?s supposed leader of people infected with AIDS...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Immigration Bill Suffers Setback in Senate Vote
The Senate refused at midday to shut off debate on the immigration overhaul bill and move toward a vote...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Putin Makes His Own Proposal on Missile Defense
The Russian president suggested that instead of building radar defenses in the Czech Republic, the U.S. should use an existing system in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
CBS Bringing ?Jericho? Back After Protests From Fans
The network reversed course and announced that it had ordered seven new episodes for broadcast late this year or early in 2008...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Biomet Accepts Sweetened Takeover Offer
The artificial joint maker accepted a bid of $11.4 billion from a private equity consortium...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
US army holds 32 in Iraqi raids
The US detains 32 suspected militants in raids in Iraq, as
its new spokesman defends its troop "surge"...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Senate set for immigration vote
The US Senate could be moving to a crucial vote as debate heats up over a controversial immigration bill...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Bush plays down Russia row
George Bush describes as interesting a Russian proposal for resolving the row over the US missile defence shield...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Shield plan: Bush reassures Putin
U.S. President George W. Bush tries to calm rising tensions with Moscow over a planned missile defense system ahead of a meeting Thursday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the world's richest nations...
CNN - June 7, 2007
F.D.A. Issues Strictest Warning on Two Diabetes Drugs
The agency has called for the toughest safety warning on Avandia and Actos, whose risks have become a focus of concern...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Ice hockey: Ducks' Stanley win
The Anaheim Ducks win their first-ever Stanley Cup with a 6-2 victory over Ottawa, taking the series 4-1...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Peru emergency amid cold snap
Peruvian authorities declare a state of emergency in several Andean regions after cold weather leaves 200 dead...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
US asylum rule on forced abortion
Women forced to have abortions can seek asylum in the US with their partners, a California court decides...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Missing girl is found alive in US
A missing teenage girl is found locked in a hidden room in a house in Connecticut, USA...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
Missing girl found hidden under staircase
A 15-year-old girl who had been missing for nearly a year was found Wednesday, locked in a small hidden room under a staircase in a West Hartford, Connecticut, home, police said. Three people who lived in the home were arrested...
CNN - June 7, 2007
Colombia seeks FARC prisoner swap
Colombia has begun releasing prisoners from its largest Marxist rebel group, beginning with its "foreign minister," Rodrigo Granda, in hopes of getting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to reciprocate, authorities said...
CNN - June 7, 2007
Giuliani and McCain to Skip Straw Poll in Iowa
The decisions were a clear indication of how much the new primary calendar is upending politics...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
He?s 9 Years Old and a Video-Game Circuit Star
Victor M. De Leon III ? known to rivals and fans as Lil? Poison ? is thought to be the youngest pro gamer...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Ducks 6, Senators 2: Ducks, All Grown Up, Bring the West Coast Its First Cup
With a dominating victory over the Ottawa Senators, the Anaheim Ducks won the first Stanley Cup in franchise history and the first ever won by a team on the West Coast...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Goals Are Both Met and Missed in Clinton Fund-Raising
A confidential document provided to The Times provides a glimpse of Senator Hillary Clinton?s successes and failures in fund-raising...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
News Analysis: When Presidential Pardons Turn Political
A pardon for I. Lewis Libby Jr. would attract more attention to a case from which President Bush has tried to keep his distance...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Campaign Funds for Alaskan; Road Aid to Florida
Rarely are the tradeoffs between campaign contributions and lucrative official favors quite as obvious as in the twisted case of Coconut Road...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells
If a technique used in mice can be adapted to human cells, it would let scientists use a patient?s skin cells to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
World Business Briefing: Britain: Hedge Fund Creates Research Institute
The Man Group, the largest publicly traded hedge fund in the world, said it would pay £13.8 million ($27 million) to set up a research institute at Oxford University. The funds, to be paid over five years, will create the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and endow a professorship. The initiative is a way for Man, which uses mathematical models to make investments, to find mathematicians, who have become increasingly scarce as students planning careers in hedge funds study business instead...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Tentative Rail Contract
The Teamsters union said it had reached a tentative contract deal with the Canadian Pacific Railway and a strike by 3,200 maintenance workers in Canada should end soon. No details of the proposed three-year contract are being released before a ratification vote. The workers have been off the job since May 15. After months of negotiations, the two sides stopped talking when the strike began. Maintenance employees have been without a contract since December...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
World Business Briefing: Brazil: Bank Cuts Benchmark Rate
The country?s central bank cut the benchmark lending rate to a record low as a rally in Brazil?s currency holds inflation at an eight-year low. Policy makers, led by the bank?s president, Henrique Meirelles, 61, lowered the overnight lending rate by half a percentage point, to 12 percent...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
World Business Briefing: Japan: Executive Leaves Citigroup
Citigroup, which recently acquired a majority stake in the Nikko Cordial Corporation, said Brandon Ginsberg had resigned as co-head of equities at its Japanese investment bank. Mr. Ginsberg has already left, said Masufumi Yoshino, head of corporate communications at Nikko Citigroup in Tokyo. No further details were available. The departure is the second change of senior managers at the unit since Citigroup bought 61 percent in April...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
World Business Briefing: Accord to Protect Wine Names
Australia agreed to stop using names like champagne and port as part of an accord with the European Union that helps protect the union?s wine industry by preserving traditional production methods and names. ?The agreement safeguards the E.U.?s wine-labeling regime, gives full protection to E.U. geographical indications, including for wines intended to be exported, and includes a clear Australian commitment to protect E.U. traditional expressions,? the European Commission said. The agreement replaces an existing accord that dates from 1994 and provides for Australia to phase out the use of ?a number of important E.U. names? within a year...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
World Business Briefing: Ecuador: Oil Agreements Under Review
Ecuador has started to examine its oil agreements to determine if private companies have breached their contracts with the nation, South America?s fifth-largest oil producer, the energy minister said. ?A committee will look into all contracts. It will review all we need to review and we are seeking transparency,? the oil minister, Alberto Acosta, said. The nine-member committee of energy officials and specialists is examining exploration and development contracts, which are mostly in the hands of foreign oil companies like Petrobras of Brazil and Repsol-YPF of Spain...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
World Business Briefing: China: Car Sales Rise 34% in May
China?s car sales rose 23 percent in May, as price cuts and new models attracted more people to showrooms. Customers bought 488,500 passenger cars, multipurpose vehicles and sport-utility vehicles in May, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
New Head for Collins
The publisher Steve Ross has been named president and publisher at HarperCollins...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Shake-Up at Monster
Shares of Monster Worldwide fell more than 2 percent after it said its chief financial officer was resigning as part of a management shake-up...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Conrad Black Loses Bid to Recall a Witness
The former media baron lost his motion to recall the chief prosecution witness, F. David Radler...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
UBS Agrees to $115 Million Enron Payment
As part of the settlement, UBS will withdraw its claim for about $5 million against Enron...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Handbag Suit Settled
Fendi settled a lawsuit against Wal-Mart that contended the retailer had sold counterfeit handbags and wallets in its Sam?s Club stores...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Promoting a Thirst for Sprite in Teenage Cellphone Users
Coca-Cola is hoping its new mobile site for social networking, Sprite Yard, will become the MySpace of the cellphone world...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Prudential Financial to Close Research Unit
About 420 people will be laid off, with most of the cuts coming in New York. International offices will also close...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Citigroup and NASD Settle BellSouth Case
Citigroup will pay $15.2 million to settle claims that its brokers had coaxed BellSouth employees into retiring early on exaggerated projections for investment returns...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
CBS Bringing ?Jericho? Back After Protests From Fans
The network reversed course and announced that it had ordered seven new episodes for broadcast late this year or early in 2008...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Doctor Says He Was Assailed for Challenging Drug?s Safety
A medical researcher who testified at a House hearing about the safety of the popular diabetes drug, Avandia, said he received the veiled threat of a lawsuit by a high-ranking drug company executive...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Economic Scene: Despite the Dumb Jokes, Stereotypes May Reflect Some Smart Choices
Where do stereotypes, like jokes about dumb blondes, come from? An armchair economic analysis suggests some intriguing possibilities...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
I.R.S. Moves to Close Tax Shelter Shortly After I.B.M. Uses It to Save $1.6 Billion
The government moved to block a tax shelter aimed at converting billions of corporate profits into profits that will never be taxed...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Small Business: A Voice for Small Business
Steven C. Preston, the administrator of the Small Business Administration since last July, discusses his efforts and those of Congress to reform the agency, which has had budget and staffing cuts...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Advertising: Fashion Paper Joins Bottom-of-the-Front-Page Club
Women?s Wear Daily has become the latest newspaper to sell advertising space on its front page...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Europe?s Central Bank Raises Interest Rates
Borrowing costs were increased to their highest level in nearly six years, signaling an economy that raised the risk of higher inflation...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Administration Seeks Overhaul of Patent System
The Bush administration wants better information from inventors and to allow public scrutiny of applications...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Small Business: Saving Trees Is Music to Guitar Makers? Ears
Guitar makers are rethinking the notion that there is an inexhaustible supply of wood to make their instruments...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Independence Still the Issue at Dow Jones
The Bancroft family is trying to come up with a stronger system for keeping the newsroom independent of Rupert Murdoch...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Converters Signal a New Era for TVs
The nearly 20 million homes that rely on rabbit ears for reception will receive as much as $80 to move to digital...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
More Fears on Inflation Hit Stocks
The stock market tumbled for a second day over fears that inflation is not settling down enough to satisfy the Federal Reserve...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
Auto Chiefs Make Headway Against a Mileage Increase
Automakers seem to be making progress in tamping down Democratic proposals for tougher fuel economy requirements...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
China to Revise Rules on Food and Drug Safety
It is the strongest signal yet that Beijing is moving to crack down on the sale of dangerous food and drugs...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
F.D.A. Issues Strictest Warning on Diabetes Drugs
The agency has called for the toughest safety warning on Avandia and Actos, whose health risks have become a focus of concern...
New York Times - June 7, 2007
California pushes Iraq war vote
Lawmakers in California pass a bill that would allow the state's voters to call for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq...
BBC News - June 7, 2007
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