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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
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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Rwanda protocol chief says shell prove innocence
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
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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Hollywood actors guild to seek strike
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for July 2005:
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G-8 Meeting's Focus Shifts to Terrorism
Group of Eight talks turned into a forum for President Bush and other world leaders to express their unity in confronting terrorism...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
N.Y. Tightens Transit Security
Wary commuters in New York City largely appeared to stick to their routines today as government and police officials intensified security around mass transit facilities and elsewhere after the deadly explosions in London...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
U.S. Raises Threat Level for Mass Transit
Government and transit officials across New York and the country were intensifying security today in response to the series of deadly explosions during the morning rush in London...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Markets Recover From Early Sell-Off
Global financial markets rebounded after today's bombings in London, reflecting the fact that investors around the world are learning to deal with terrorists attacks...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
NHL dispute 'has been resolved'
Reports claim the NHL and players' union have agreed a deal to end the season-long lockout...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
Fans urged to buy recycled Potter
US environmentalists urge Harry Potter fans to buy Canadian recycled paper copies of book six...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
Brazil set for vote on gun ban
Brazil's Congress approves a plan for a nationwide referendum on whether to ban the sale of firearms...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
European and U.S. Markets Stabilize After London Blasts
Global financial markets made up some of the steep losses that they suffered immediately after the London transit explosions today...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
G-8 Meeting Continues as Blair Departs
Prime Minster Tony Blair of Britain said the meeting would go on as a symbol of determination not to bow to violence...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Evangelicals boost green lobby
Evangelicals Christians urging care for "God's creation" are becoming a more powerful force in US politics, writes John Shields...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
Heatwave boosts US retail sales
US consumers, the main drivers of the world's largest economy, have returned to the shopping malls as a heatwave generated better-than-expected sales...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
NBA: McMillan quits Sonics
Nate McMillan quits as head coach of Seattle to take over at Portland...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
Football: Crespo stays at Chelsea
Chelsea say their Argentine striker Hernan Crespo will play for them in the Premiership next season...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
US boosts security after attacks
The United States puts in place a series of extra security measures after the London bomb attacks...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
9/11 mayor in London for attacks
The mayor of New York during the 9/11 attacks, Rudolph Giuliani, tells the BBC he was near one of the London blasts...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
Iran's Reformists Link Defeat to a Split From the Poor
Iran's political reformists have been run out because they failed to keep in touch with the people they had promised to help...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Brooklyn Plan Draws a Rival, and It's Smaller
A rival of the developer Bruce C. Ratner submitted a competing bid Wednesday to buy and develop the site of a proposed Nets basketball arena in Brooklyn...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Mayor Says Bid Was Worth a Shot, Even a Long One
Mayor Bloomberg expressed no regrets, saying the bid spurred development while raising New York's international profile...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Mexican city appoints new top cop
A Mexican city appoints a new police chief after his predecessor was murdered hours into his new job...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
Budding Dancers Compete, Seriously
Dance in America is very much alive, and the competitive dance circuit is among the most exhilarating and, some say, least artistic of its manifestations...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Democrats Adopt O'Connor as Model for Bush Court Pick
Sandra Day O'Connor has become the toast of Democrats, prompting more than a little resentment on the right...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Reporter Jailed After Refusing to Name Source
Judith Miller, a reporter for The Times, was sent to jail after a federal judge declared that she was "defying the law."...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
London Wins 2012 Olympics; New York Lags
London won the 2012 Olympic Summer Games in a surprising upset over Paris. The New York bid was eliminated in the second round of voting...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Shiite Morality Is Taking Hold in Iraq Oil Port
Basra is being transformed into a mini-theocracy, forming a flash point because the political parties there also wield significant influence in Baghdad...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Halliburton's Iraq Job
The United States military has signed a work order with Halliburton to do nearly $5 billion in new work in Iraq...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Scandals Raise Questions Over Volkswagen's Governance
Volkswagen is engulfed in a corruption scandal that threatens one of Germany's most prominent executives as well as Chancellor Gerhard Schröder...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Do Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Stimulate Employment?
The question of whether to make tax cuts permanent is still on the Congressional agenda. So it is an opportune moment to examine President Bush's argument in support of them...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Sales Up 7% at Starbucks
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Verizon Signs Video Deal
Verizon Communications signed its first video deal, with a unit of Time Warner, allowing it to carry Turner Broadcasting channels on its fiber optic video service...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
The Food Industry Empire Strikes Back
Food companies have had astounding success in their aggressive campaign to make it impossible for anyone to sue them for causing obesity...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Trump Resorts' New Chief
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Canada Suitor to Pursue Bid for Amvescap
CI Financial said that it would continue to pursue the fund manager Amvescap despite a rebuff from the company for its initial offer...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
J.P. Morgan Chase Settles Patent Claims
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
As a Storm Rolls Through, Oil Prices Jump Up
With crude oil prices surging above $61 a barrel, the hurricane season is again rocking global oil markets at a time of tight supplies...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
A.I.G. Names Executive for Reinsurance
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Actor, Working With Intel, Bets on Movies via Internet
A production company owned in part by Morgan Freeman, the actor, with backing by Intel, is forming a new venture to sell movie downloads on the Internet...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
CIT Sells Aircraft Financing Assets to G.E.
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Utah Bank Expands to Texas With $1.7 Billion Acquisition
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
U.S. Service Industries Grew Briskly Last Month
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Study Challenges Assumptions About Money Being Remitted to Mexico
Sending money home to Mexico is a ritual in the migrant experience in the U.S., but a new study casts doubt on the amount of transfers that actually goes to families...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Microsoft and French Ally Discuss Their Phone Plans
The chief executives of Microsoft and France Télécom discussed their new partnership to develop products to deliver voice, data and video over phone networks...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
UnitedHealth to Buy PacifiCare in Push Into Medicare
UnitedHealth Group made a big push into the rapidly growing Medicare market by agreeing to buy PacifiCare Health Systems for $8.14 billion...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Boeing Pay Is a Match for Chief
Boeing agreed to pay its new chief executive, W. James McNerney Jr., a total compensation package that could top $53 million to wrest him away from 3M...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Study Says Malpractice Payouts Aren't Rising
The study finds that net claims for medical malpractice paid by 15 leading insurance companies have remained flat...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
As the Going Gets Tough, Chrysler Calls on Its Old Pitchman
Chrysler is bringing back Lee A. Iacocca, its former chairman, to do what he does best - pitch cars in commercials...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Shares Fall as Oil Prices Offset Some Positive Data
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Lord Black Forced to Quit Board He Just Joined
Conrad M. Black has been forced to quit the board of a Canadian energy company, because the country's main junior stock exchange demanded his resignation...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
When Entrepreneurs Risk It All and Lose
Instead of cracking down on consumers who cannot pay credit card bills, a new bankruptcy law threatens to hobble untold numbers of entrepreneurs caught in financial setbacks...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
A Deft Balance in Orchestrating China's Oil Offer
The chairman of the oil company bidding to buy Unocal must prove loyalty to Chinese leaders while persuading the U.S. that the deal is only about commerce...
New York Times - July 7, 2005
Watergate FBI head dies at 88
The FBI chief during Watergate dies just weeks after hearing the "painful" truth about the Deep Throat informer...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
US detains Americans in Iraq
The Pentagon says it is holding five US citizens in Iraq for alleged criminal activity in the country...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
Bolivia sets date for elections
Bolivia's interim president says the country will hold its early general elections on 4 December...
BBC News - July 7, 2005
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