NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks borrowed a record amount of funds from the Federal Reserve in the latest week as the year old credit crisis took a persistent toll, while the commercial paper market… Continue reading
Last week, for the first time, the average American woke up to the fact that our economy is in trouble.Despite Bernanke and Paulson’s pep talks, despite the happy talk by the… Continue reading
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Tobacco companies manipulate the amount of menthol in cigarettes to make those first few puffs more palatable to young smokers, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that could fuel support for more… Continue reading
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The United Nations is pulling back some non-essential staff deployed in Sudan’s restive Darfur region.
It says the decision comes after recent violence and as a precaution after an international prosecutor accused Sudan’s president of… Continue reading
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a new security agreement with Washington.… Continue reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new strain of West Nile virus is spreading better and earlier across the United States, and may thrive in hot American summers, researchers said on Thursday.
The virus infected an… Continue reading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union are near a deal on letting law enforcement and security agencies obtain private information like credit card transactions and travel histories about people on… Continue reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. telephone companies that took part in President George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program could be shielded from billions of dollars in lawsuits under a electronic spy bill finalized on Thursday… Continue reading
Fuel pumps at a Shell petrol station near Liverpool. Phil Noble/Reuters
Motorists face the growing prospect of… Continue reading
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc, the second largest U.S. chicken producer, said on Tuesday it will destroy about 15,000 chickens in Arkansas exposed to a mild strain of bird flu, and while there… Continue reading
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Thursday he will seek to adopt novel Israeli methods, like behaviour-detection technologies, to better secure America’s airports.
“That’s a scenario where Israel has a… Continue reading
A report from Merrill Lynch & Co has revealed that the government has effectively given Gulf Arab oil producers the go ahead to change their dollar-pegged… Continue reading
Two U.S. missiles hit a house in southern Somalia on Monday, according to local officials, in a strike Washington said was directed at “known terrorists.”
It was the fourth U.S. air strike in 14 months… Continue reading
Ron Paul has smashed the all-time record for political donations on one day, beating John Kerry’s previous effort as he hauled in over $6 million dollars during a 24-hour period that coincided with… Continue reading