WWLP 22News | 'Clunkers' Auto Rebate Plan So Popular It's Broke New York Times WASHINGTON â€" After an unanticipated level of response from car shoppers seeking new auto discounts under the “cash for clunkers†program, the government was reported Thursday evening to have exhausted the funds available, ... US 'Clunkers' Program Said to Be Out of Money Cash for Clunkers may be put on hold 'Cash for Clunkers' Runs Out of Gas |
ABC News | Law Enforcement Officials Raid Home of Michael Jackson's Physician FOXNews AP DEA agents, Los Angeles police and Las Vegas police are executing search warrants on the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jackson's personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray, a law enforcement source tells FOXNews.com. ... Home of Jackson doctor searched Michael Jackson Doctor's Las Vegas Home, Office Searched DEA searches home of Michael Jackson doctor Conrad Murray in ... |
Boston Globe | New-home sales up 11% in June from previous month Los Angeles Times Price cuts and tax credits provide a boost. Still, 2009 is shaping up to be the worst year for new-home sales since at least 1963. By Peter Y. Hong Sales of new single-family homes were up 11% in June from the month before, as buyers responded to price ... New home sales: 'Re » |
guardian.co.uk | Pace of health care reform bogs down under weight of questions and ... Buffalo News Critics and supporters agree, however, that doing nothing is not an option for a system that threatens America's economy. By Jerry Zremski Colleen Wirth lives every day as an example of American health care at its best and at its worst. ... The state of the health care debate Are lobbyists silver lining in health care storm? Would the Health Plan Help Sm » |
Telegraph.co.uk | Gates' Liberal College Town No Stranger to Racial Dust-Ups ABC News The arrest of an African-American professor at his home near Harvard University gives a rare view into racial tensions in a seemingly unlikely place: America's ivory tower and its liberal environs. ... Police unions don't get apology from Obama, but happy with reversal Arrest of Gates also shines a light on 'disorderly conduct' laws Gates isn't the face of racial profiling |
Telegraph.co.uk | Friends defend officer who arrested black scholar Houston Chronicle By DENISE LAVOIE AP Writer © 2009 The Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. â€" Supporters say the white policeman who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home is a principled police officer and family man who is being unfairly ... Obama's Comments On Gates Arrest Spark Controversy Gates' Daughter C » |
FOXNews | Mass. has lessons for health care debate USA Today By Josh T. Reynolds for USA TODAY By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY BOSTON â€" The state that pioneered health care for » |
BBC News | Longest 21st century solar eclipse wows millions Reuters VARANASI, India/WUHAN, China, July 22 (Reuters) - A total solar eclipse began its flight on Wednesday across a narrow swathe of Asia, where hundreds of millions of people watched the skies darken despite thick summer ... Solar Eclipse Crosses Asia, Plunging Millions Into Darkness Solar Eclipse Starts in Asia |
Telegraph.co.uk | Google Earth Puts You on the Moon PC World To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Google Earth users can now search the moon by using high resolution planning charts. By clicking on the human artifacts option, you can see what people have left behind on the surface of the moon. ... Apollo 11 Facts: 40 Years Later Obama meets astronauts; no promise of moon or Mars Apollo astronauts bemoan state of US space program |
CTV.ca | Officials Say Captive Soldier Shown on Taliban Video Is Bowe ... ABC News Department of Defense officials confirmed the identity of a captured American soldier in a video posted online Saturday by the Taliban. Detained and scared, US GI is questioned by captors on tape. Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, 23, ... US soldier captured by Taliban: 'I'm afraid' US names soldier in Taliban video Captured US soldier in Taliban video: Held by Haqqani network? |
Daily Nation | Obama: Don't squander chance to reform health care The Associated Press WASHINGTON â€" President Barack Obama told the nation Saturday his health care overhaul is financi » |
BBC News | Rafsanjani defies Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Times Online Iran's most influential powerbroker defied the Supreme Leader and used Friday prayers to declare the Islamic Republic “in crisis†yesterday as tens of thousands of protesters staged the largest show of dissent in weeks. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, ... Tehran's streets erupt after a key cleric speaks Rafsanjani fans flames In 'unity' sermon, Rafsanjani regrets 'crisis' handling |
guardian.co.uk | Exchanges from the Sotomayor confirmation hearing The Associated Press A look at some exchanges during the fourth day of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: ___ Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas: "You've also said that the Supreme Court decisions that a lot of us ... Hatch asks Sotomayor questions posed by public Sen. Kyl Questioning at Judge Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing Sotomayor's rulings 'gener » |
Washington Post | Obama prods Congress on healthcare, Senate panel acts Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pushed on Wednesday for swift congressional action on healthcare reform as a Senate panel took that chamber's first step on a plan to overhaul the $2.5 trillion industry. ... Senate panel approves health care reform bill Health Highlights: July 15, 2009 Senate Committee Approves Health-Care Reform Bill |
BBC News | Sotomayor Says Identity Won't Distort Her Decisions New York Times WASHINGTON â€" Judge Sonia Sotomayor insisted on Tuesday, in the face of skeptical questioning from a leading Republican, that she would never » |
Washington Post | Sotomayor's a slam dunk, say Obama, Schumer on eve of ... New York Daily News President Obama c » |
ABC News | Death Toll Debated In China's Rioting Washington Post URUMQI, China -- The Yu siblings could hardly bear to look at the police snapshots of the dead -- the images so full of anger and cruelty. So they took turns sifting through them in search of their brother, who had been missing ... China's Ethnic Fault Lines |
KPIC | Operation FALCON nets 35190 fugitives in annual sweep CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than 35000 fugitives across the United States were arrested in June as part of an annual sweep that teams the US Marshals Service with local law enforcement in a summer push to clean up the streets, US Marshals said Thursday. ... National roundup includes 1469 arrests in Houston area Operation FALCON success, 643 fugitives rounded up Nationwide roundup nets more than 35000 fugitives |
guardian.co.uk | Silvio Berlusconi makes playboy's G8 guardian.co.uk It was a late start by Gordon Brown's standards. He burst onto his British Airways chartered plane bound for the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, a little before 6.30am. Sarah Brown, recently appointed as the prime minister's special envoy to Planet ... Near Tents and Ruins, G-8 Summit Meeting Opens G8 Summit Focused on Economy, Climate Change US, other wealthy nations vow global warming cuts |
Telegraph.co.uk | US and Russia agree nuclear cuts BBC News US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have reached an outline agreement to cut back their nations' stockpiles of nuclear weapons. The "joint understanding" signed in Moscow would see reductions of deployed nuclear warheads to ... Russians hit the red button on US ties Obama in Moscow for arms talks Obama, Medvedeve agree to pursue nuclear reduction |
FOXNews | Alaska's governor Sarah Palin to resign, dooming her presidential ... New York Daily News Sarah Palin announces that she is resigning as Governor of Alaska. Some Republican insiders say this dooms any hopes of a presidential bid. She must think it's best for Alaska, she always puts her state first. ... Palin Stirs Debate About Her Political Future With Resignation Palin resignation splits GOP Palin stepping down as Alaska governor |
