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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for January 2008:
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The Lede Blog: Tapes Counter Iran on Confrontation
Did Iran say, "I'm coming at you and you will blow up in a couple of minutes"?...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Settlement on Use of Central Park?s Great Lawn
The New York City Parks Department agreed to back away from a controversial regulation to limit public events on the Great Lawn to 50,000 people...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Gossage Makes Hall of Fame; McGwire Falls Short
Rich Gossage was elected in his ninth year on the ballot while Jim Rice and Andre Dawson missed...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
The Caucus Blog: The Tracks of Clinton?s Tears
Caucus readers react to Hillary Rodham Clinton?s display of emotion during an appearance at a New Hampshire coffee shop...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Stocks Tumble on New Signs of Economic Woes
Markets were rattled after the chief executive of AT&T suggested a weaker economy was forcing consumers to scale back spending...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bid for China Eastern Airline Stake Rebuffed
A decision by minority shareholders of China Eastern to reject a tie-up with Singapore Airlines and a Singapore government investor has set the stage for an unusual corporate battle in China...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Paulson Says U.S. May Expand Mortgage Aid
The Treasury secretary said the administration was in talks with the mortgage industry to expand a program that freezes adjustable rate mortgages for 5 years to include borrowers of loans at prime rates...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Citi Shakes Up Its Residential Mortgage Business
Badly bruised by the sharp downturn in the housing market, Citigroup is bringing together all of its mortgage-related activities under one roof...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Microsoft Bids for Norwegian Search Engine Firm
Microsoft bid $1.2 billion for Fast Search and Transfer, based in Oslo, in an effort to add more tools to its lucrative Office products...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
KB Home?s Loss Swells Amid Housing Slump
The homebuilder said its fourth-quarter loss ballooned to $772.7 million as home sales slowed, prompting it to book charges to write down unsold inventory and for a tax allowance...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Stocks Tumble on New Signs of Economic Woes
Markets were rattled after the chief executive of AT&T suggested a weaker economy was forcing consumers to scale back spending...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Mortgage giant denies bankruptcy
US mortgage giant Countrywide Financial denies speculation it is about to file for bankruptcy protection...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Bats Blog: Hall of Fame Announcement Today
MLB.com will provide a live online broadcast of the 2008 Hall of Fame announcement starting at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
DealBook Blog: Bear Stearns?s Next Chief, a Primer
For the first time in Bear Stearns' history, an investment banker will be running the show. As soon as Tuesday, Bear Stearns is expected to announce that Alan Schwartz, president of the securities firm, will succeed James Cayne as its chief executive. When it does, it will usher in a new era for Bear, which his [...]...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
City Room: Renaming the Triborough After R.F.K.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer plans to ask the State Legislature to rename the Triborough Bridge, which opened in 1936, for Robert F. Kennedy, the New York senator who was assassinated in 1968...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Tornadoes Kill 2; More Storms Expected
Unseasonably warm air touched off a flurry of tornadoes across the Midwest on Monday night, killing two people in Missouri and smashing homes and cars, and knocking over railroad cars, in a swath extending from Oklahoma to southern Wisconsin...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
TV Watch: With Focus on the Strike, Stewart Returns
Jon Stewart?s return on ?The Daily Show? was a jarring display of solipsism from a performer famous for expertly tweaking the vanity and self-importance of others...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Record N.H. Turnout Is Predicted
Voters in New Hampshire have the potential to reinforce Senator Barack Obama?s momentum and revive the campaign of Senator John McCain...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
No Strangers to the Cold, Voters Now Feel the Heat
With the price of gasoline and home heating oil no longer comfortably affordable, the benefits of living in rural New Hampshire have also become burdens for many people...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Scrutiny for Imports
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is expanding inspections of imports after the recalls of toys, toothpaste and pet-food ingredients from China...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Deal for Maker of College Texts
Macmillan Publishers has agreed to buy Hayden-McNeil Publishing, a publisher of custom textbooks, for an undisclosed sum...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Holocaust Insurance Case Inches Closer to Settlement
A federal judge cleared the way for a long-running dispute over unpaid life insurance claims for Holocaust victims to move a step closer to a settlement...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Dealbook: Questioning an Adviser?s Advice
If you?re a chief executive under siege, Martin Lipton is the lawyer to call...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
On the Road: More Caveats Than Clarity in Batteries-in-Baggage Rule
LAST week, I spent most of an afternoon trying to get a cogent explanation of a confusing news release issued late on the Friday before New Year?s by a mouthful of an agency called the United States Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Mozilla Names New Chief, but Reaffirms Open-Source Commitment
John Lilly, the chief operating officer of Mozilla, the developer of the open-source browser Firefox, will succeed Mitchell Baker as the firm?s chief executive...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Genzyme Wins Cholesterol Drug Deal
Genzyme has agreed to pay at least $325 million to win the hotly contested rights to a potentially powerful cholesterol-lowering drug...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Strikebound, the Globes Scale Back Awards
The festive awards dinner will be replaced on Sunday night by a news conference to announce the prize winners...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bid for China Eastern Airline Stake Rebuffed
A decision by minority shareholders of China Eastern to reject a tie-up with Singapore Airlines and a Singapore government investor has set the stage for an unusual corporate battle in China...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Microsoft Bids for Norwegian Search Engine Firm
Microsoft bid $1.2 billion for Fast Search and Transfer, based in Oslo, in an effort to add more tools to its lucrative Office products...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
KB Home?s Loss Swells Amid Housing Slump
The homebuilder said its fourth-quarter loss ballooned to $772.7 million as home sales slowed, prompting it to book charges to write down unsold inventory and for a tax allowance...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Stocks Fall as Countrywide Tumbles
Stocks turned sharply negative as shares of financial services companies slid with traders citing rumors of more financial problems at Countrywide Financial...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Paulson Says U.S. May Expand Mortgage Aid
The Treasury secretary said the administration was in talks with the mortgage industry to expand a program that freezes adjustable rate mortgages for 5 years to include borrowers of loans at prime rates...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
US homebuilder reports $773m loss
KB Home, the fifth largest US homebuilder, reports a $773m quarterly loss as the housing slowdown continues to bite...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Fat fighting, LA style
David Willis finds out about the fastest growing cosmetic procedure in figure-conscious Los Angeles...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
US election polltracker
Chart how the main Republican and Democrat contenders are faring in the polls ahead of the first key primary...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
NFL: Gibbs quits as Redskins boss
Three-time Super Bowl winner Joe Gibbs resigns as Washington's head coach after their play-off loss to Seattle...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
'Drug lord' Brazil homes for sale
Property belonging to a man said to be one of Colombia's most wanted drug traffickers is up for auction in Brazil...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Bolivian leaders seek crisis exit
Bolivian President Evo Morales and opposition governors meet to tackle a political crisis over a draft new constitution...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Clemens?s Lawyer Plays Tape of McNamee Call
The move came a day after Roger Clemens filed a defamation lawsuit against Brian McNamee, his former trainer...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
U.S. Describes Confrontation With Iranian Boats
Five Iranian boats took aggressive actions around three U.S. naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, an official said...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Clinton?s Campaign Shows Stress Before Primary
If Hillary Rodham Clinton loses in New Hampshire, everything will be on the table, her advisers say...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bomb Kills Sri Lankan Minister
A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
A Safety-Net Hospital Falls Into Financial Crisis
The struggles of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta are emblematic of the crippling effect America?s health care crisis has had on public hospitals around the nation...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
2 Hopefuls Share Little but Appeal to Youth
A tidal wave of young voters are buoying the campaigns of both Senators Barack Obama and John McCain...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Justices Weigh Injection Issue for Death Row
A lawyer for a condemned prisoner said there was an unacceptable risk of agony in Kentucky?s procedure, but justices were skeptical...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Publishing That?s All About Me
Torn between family photos and a stack of periodicals...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
No Strangers to the Cold, Voters Now Feel the Heat
With the price of gasoline and home heating oil no longer comfortably affordable, the benefits of living in rural New Hampshire have also become burdens for many people...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Baltimore Is Suing Bank Over Foreclosure Crisis
Baltimore?s mayor and City Council contend that Wells Fargo?s lending practices discriminated against black borrowers and led to a wave of foreclosures...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Sony BMG Will Sell Music Without Copyright Protection
Sony BMG is the last major record company to do away with the programs, which prevent illegal copying and distribution of songs on the Internet...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Japanese Parent of Talbots Cuts Outlook
The Aeon Company of Japan, cut its full-year outlook after poor results at Talbots cut deeply into its operating profit...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Krispy Kreme?s Chief Executive Quits Amid Turnaround
The popular doughnut-making company said Daryl G. Brewster was leaving his position for personal reasons...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Ending One Airport Runaround
Automobile traffic is a problem plaguing many airports, but some have found a simple partial solution -- cellphone parking lots away from the terminal...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Microsoft Forges Ties to Studios
Microsoft announced partnerships with Walt Disney, NBC Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to boost online video sales...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Starbucks Replaces Chief With Chairman
With the stock plummeting and competitors on the attack, Starbucks Coffee said Monday that it was bringing back its top barista to help turn the company around...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Scrutiny for Imports
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is expanding inspections of imports after the recalls of toys, toothpaste and pet-food ingredients from China...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Canadian Emissions Market Recommended
A government panel recommended that prices be set for greenhouse gas emissions...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
2 Canadian Bank Executives Ousted After Subprime Losses
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce fired two executives at its CIBC World Markets unit as it grapples with a $9.8 billion exposure to subprime debt...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Deal for Maker of College Texts
Macmillan Publishers has agreed to buy Hayden-McNeil Publishing, a publisher of custom textbooks, for an undisclosed sum...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
High-Level Shake-Up at Condé Nast
Condé Nast Publications announced a management shake-up, including the departure of Mitchell B. Fox, one of the company?s highest-ranking executives...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Holocaust Insurance Case Inches Closer to Settlement
A federal judge cleared the way for a long-running dispute over unpaid life insurance claims for Holocaust victims to move a step closer to a settlement...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
More Caveats Than Clarity in Batteries-in-Baggage Rule
LAST week, I spent most of an afternoon trying to get a cogent explanation of a confusing news release issued late on the Friday before New Year?s by a mouthful of an agency called the United States Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Xerox Hopes Its New Logo Doesn?t Say ?Copier?
Xerox is retiring the staid red capital X that has dominated its logo for 40 years in favor of ?a brand identity that reflects the Xerox of today.?...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Mozilla Names New Chief, but Reaffirms Open-Source Commitment
John Lilly, the chief operating officer of Mozilla, the developer of the open-source browser Firefox, will succeed Mitchell Baker as the firm?s chief executive...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Questioning an Adviser?s Advice
If you?re a chief executive under siege, Martin Lipton is the lawyer to call...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Erratic Mood on Eve of Earnings Reports
Investors grew more confident that the Fed will lower interest rates again to ward off recession, but they also wrestled with worries about the coming earnings season...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
E.P.A. Seeks New Life for Old Cellphones
The E.P.A. is launching a public education campaign aimed at getting consumers to recycle their old phones...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Fraud Trial Focuses on Insurance Giants
The reputations of two business titans ? Warren E. Buffett and Maurice R. Greenberg ? came under attack on in the latest corporate corruption trial...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Hong Kong Power Regulations Based in Part on Emissions
Hong Kong adopts a new regulatory system that could some day be a model for mainland China?s giant power industries...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
A Chairman Is Appointed to Rebuild Sallie Mae
The beleaguered student lending giant appointed a longtime banking executive as chairman as it struggles with tighter credit markets and a failed buyout...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Comcast Plans to Offer a Huge Menu of Films
A plan aims to offer Comcast subscribers a nearly limitless supply of movies and TV shows that can be viewed on demand and through the Internet...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Genzyme Wins Cholesterol Drug Deal
Genzyme has agreed to pay at least $325 million to win the hotly contested rights to a potentially powerful cholesterol-lowering drug...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Comedy Central Hosts Return to TV
Comedy Central?s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to the air Monday pointing barbs at their own management and at the striking union...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Lender Tells Judge It ?Recreated? Letters
Records raise new questions about the business practices of the giant mortgage lender at the center of the subprime mess...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Strikebound, the Globes Scale Back
The festive awards dinner will be replaced on Sunday night by a news conference to announce the prize winners...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bush Admits Economy Faces Challenges
President Bush said rising oil prices, the mortgage crisis and a weakening job market presented new ?economic challenges.?...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
The Debate Over How and How Long
President Bush is likely to respond to recession fears much as he did on entering office in 2001, but this time around Democrats are planning to push back...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Ford to Expand in India, Planning a Small Car and an Engine Plant
The company is expected to increase spending in India by $500 million, as it focuses on making the country a regional hub for small-car manufacturing...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Four Wheels for the Masses: The $2,500 Car
A new car from Tata Motors of India would likely fail Western emission and safety standards, but it could be an affordable car for the developing world...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bear?s Cayne to Quit as Chief Executive
James E. Cayne, the embattled chief executive of Bear Stearns, will step down after the deepest losses in the firm?s history, according to people who have been briefed on the situation...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bear Stearns boss 'may step down'
James Cayne, the chief executive of Bear Stearns, is reported to be planning to step down soon...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Gridiron: Tigers win college crown
Louisiana State see off top-ranked Ohio State 38-24 to become US college football's national champions...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
US recession 'has arrived'
The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
US says Iran incident 'dangerous'
The US secretary of state denounces alleged threats by Iranian boats against the US navy in the Strait of Hormuz...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Colombia rejects foreign missions
Colombia says it will not accept any more international input after the failed handover of hostages held by rebels...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
City Room: Ask About Immigrants on the L.E.S.
Steve Long of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is answering readers' questions this week on the neighborhood's history of immigration and tenement life...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
The Lede : Taser Toting, Without Missing a Beat
If the world were divided into neat groups -- say, between users of Tasers and MP3 players...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Justices Weigh Injection Issue for Death Row
A lawyer for a condemned prisoner asserted that there is an unacceptable risk of agony in Kentucky?s procedure, but justices were skeptical...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
A Safety-Net Hospital Falls Into Financial Crisis
The struggles of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta are emblematic of the crippling effect America?s health care crisis has had on public hospitals around the nation...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
2 Hopefuls Share Little but Appeal to Youth
A tidal wave of young voters are buoying the campaigns of both Senators Barack Obama and John McCain...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
In Greenland, Ice and Instability
A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the world?s most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Clinton?s Campaign Shows Stress Before Primary
If Hillary Rodham Clinton loses in New Hampshire, everything will be on the table, including replacing officials and changing strategy, her advisers say...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Baltimore Is Suing Bank Over Foreclosure Crisis
Baltimore?s mayor and City Council contend that Wells Fargo?s lending practices discriminated against black borrowers and led to a wave of foreclosures...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Microsoft Forges Ties to Studios
Microsoft announced partnerships with Walt Disney, NBC Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to boost online video sales...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Ending One Airport Runaround
Automobile traffic is a problem plaguing many airports, but some have found a simple partial solution -- cellphone parking lots away from the terminal...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Japanese Parent of Talbots Cuts Outlook
The Aeon Company of Japan, cut its full-year outlook after poor results at Talbots cut deeply into its operating profit...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Sony BMG Will Sell Music Without Copyright Protection
Sony BMG is the last major record company to do away with the programs, which prevent illegal copying and distribution of songs on the Internet...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Krispy Kreme?s Chief Executive Quits Amid Turnaround
The popular doughnut-making company said Daryl G. Brewster was leaving his position for personal reasons...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Frequent Flier: Rolling? We?re More Like the Flying Stones
Flying provides a mobile office for everything from writing to arranging the Stones? set lists...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Advertising: Xerox Hopes Its New Logo Doesn?t Say ?Copier?
Xerox is retiring the staid red capital X that has dominated its logo for 40 years in favor of ?a brand identity that reflects the Xerox of today.?...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Starbucks Replaces Chief With Chairman
With the stock plummeting and competitors on the attack, Starbucks Coffee said Monday that it was bringing back its top barista to help turn the company around...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Fraud Trial Focuses on Insurance Giants
The reputations of two business titans ? Warren E. Buffett and Maurice R. Greenberg ? came under attack on in the latest corporate corruption trial...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Comcast Plans to Offer a Huge Menu of Films
Plan aims to offer Comcast subscribers a nearly limitless supply of movies and TV shows that can be viewed on demand and through the Internet...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
High-Level Shake-Up at Condé Nast
Condé Nast Publications announced a management shake-up, including the departure of Mitchell B. Fox, one of the company?s highest-ranking executives...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: Erratic Mood on Eve of Earnings Reports
Investors grew more confident that the Fed will lower interest rates again to ward off recession, but they also wrestled with worries about the upcoming earnings season...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Hong Kong Power Regulations Based in Part on Emissions
Hong Kong adopts a new regulatory system that could some day be a model for mainland China?s giant power industries...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
E.P.A. Seeks New Life for Old Cellphones
The E.P.A. is launching a public education campaign aimed at getting consumers to recycle their old phones...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Comedy Central Hosts Return to TV
Comedy Central?s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to the air Monday pointing barbs at their own management and at the striking union...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
A Chairman Is Appointed to Rebuild Sallie Mae
The beleaguered student lending giant appointed a longtime banking executive as chairman as it struggles with tighter credit markets and a failed buyout...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Ford to Expand in India, Planning a Small Car and an Engine Plant
The company is expected to increase spending in India by $500 million, as it focuses on making the country a regional hub for small-car manufacturing...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Strikebound, the Globes Scale Back
The festive awards dinner will be replaced this Sunday night by a news conference to announce the prize winners...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
News Analysis: The Debate Over How and How Long
If President Bush is likely to respond to recession fears much as he did on entering office in 2001, but this time around Democrats are planning to push back...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
How to Build a $2,500 Car
A new car from Tata Motors of India would likely fail Western emission and safety standards, but it could be an affordable car for the developing world...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bear?s Cayne to Quit as Chief Executive
James E. Cayne, the embattled chief executive of Bear Stearns, will step down after the deepest losses in the firm?s history, according to people who have been briefed on the situation...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Lender Tells Judge It ?Recreated? Letters
Records raise new questions about the business practices of the giant mortgage lender at the center of the subprime mess...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bush Admits Economy Faces Challenges
President Bush conceded that rising oil prices, the home mortgage crisis, and the weakening job market present new ?economic challenges.?...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
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