US NewsSubway Bomb Plot Suspect Asked FBI If He Was Jewish
Posted: Mar 8th, 2011 8:32 AM
After narrowly escaping death in his bid for martyrdom, subway bomb plot suspect Adnan Medunjanin had one question for FBI agent Aaron Spivack.
"He asked me if I was Jewish," Spivack testified Monday at an evidentiary hearing in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Medunjanin had crashed his Nissan Altima on the Whitestone Expressway ... Read More
US NewsObama: Military Action Against Libya Possible
Posted: Mar 7th, 2011 1:18 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama warned Libya's leaders that the U.S. and its NATO allies are still considering military options in response to what he called "unacceptable" violence perpetrated by supporters of Moammar Gadhafi.
"I want to send a very clear message to those who are around Colonel Gadhafi. It is ... Read More
US NewsDiscovery Leaves Space Station For The Last Time
Posted: Mar 7th, 2011 9:17 AM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Discovery, the world's most traveled spaceship, left the International Space Station on Monday for the last time, getting a send-off by the dozen orbiting astronauts as well as "Star Trek's" original Capt. Kirk.
The shuttle undocked from the station as the two craft sailed more than 200 ... Read More
US NewsNASA: Rocket Crashes In Ocean After Failed Launch
Updated: Mar 4th, 2011 9:14 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks like the rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite was in the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt early Friday, NASA said.
The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Glory satellite lifted off around 2:10 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
But NASA said in a ... Read More
US NewsAirport Shooting Suspect Says He Acted Alone
Posted: Mar 3rd, 2011 8:30 AM
FRANKFURT, Germany — The suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport confessed to targeting members of the American military, a top security official said Thursday, in a case that German officials are treating as a possible act of Islamic terrorism.
German federal prosecutors took over the ... Read More
Politics, US NewsGovernment Shutdown To Be Averted - For Now
Posted: Mar 1st, 2011 6:14 PM
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that the Senate will accept a bill from the Republican-led House to fund the government for two additional weeks, likely averting the government shutdown that would otherwise have come Friday.
The House passed the short-term continuing resolution 335 to 91 on Tuesday ... Read More
US NewsAssassin Maintains He Can't Remember Shooting RFK
Posted: Feb 28th, 2011 12:25 PM
More than four decades after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his convicted murderer wants to go free for a crime he says he can't remember.
It is not old age or some memory-snatching disease that has erased an act Sirhan Bishara Sirhan once said he committed "with 20 years of malice aforethought." It's been this ... Read More
US NewsWATCH: Space Shuttle Launch Caught On Video From Airplane
Posted: Feb 26th, 2011 7:13 PM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery zoomed toward a Saturday afternoon check-in at the International Space Station, its final visit before being parked at a museum.
"Your reservation has been confirmed," Mission Control notified the six shuttle astronauts first thing Saturday morning.
Commander Steven Lindsey ... Read More
US NewsSaudi Man Charged With Plotting Terrorist Attack On Home Of George W. Bush
Posted: Feb 24th, 2011 11:49 AM
A Saudi national living in Texas was arrested Wednesday for allegedly researching and acquiring chemicals to make a bomb, authorities said Thursday.
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, of Lubbock, Texas, allegedly researched several possible targets, including the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush, and nuclear power ... Read More
US NewsFormer White House Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel Elected Mayor Of Chicago
Posted: Feb 22nd, 2011 10:12 PM
CHICAGO — Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has been elected mayor of Chicago, to succeed the retiring Richard Daley. With 86 percent of the precincts reporting, Emanuel was trouncing five opponents Tuesday with 55 percent of the vote to avoid an April runoff. Emanuel needed more than 50 percent of the vote to ... Read More
Politics, US NewsRahm Emanuel On Verge Of Taking Big Step Toward Becoming Chicago’s First Jewish Mayor
Updated: Feb 22nd, 2011 4:59 PM
Chicago voters were poised Tuesday to move former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel a huge step closer to becoming the Windy City's first Jewish mayor.
Most polls showed Emanuel leading the pack of Democrats vying for the top job in City Hall - he's been the clear front-runner since he resigned to run for mayor last ... Read More
Politics, Business, TechBarack Obama 'friends' Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
Posted: Feb 21st, 2011 2:32 AM
US President Barack Obama has met Silicon Valley bosses, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Apple's Steve Jobs and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt were also present at the private get-together in California.
The president had been seeking the views of technology leaders as he works to turn around his country's ... Read More
World, US NewsOffended Mubarak Refuses Phone Call From Obama
Posted: Feb 17th, 2011 11:04 AM
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak refused to respond to telephone calls from US President Barack Obama because he still felt offended by Obama's statement in which he called on Mubarak "to step down immediately," London-based Arabic language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Thursday.
Mubarak, still living in ... Read More
US NewsMubarak Resignation Lifts U.S. Stocks
Posted: Feb 11th, 2011 2:23 PM
The news Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down and relinquished power to the nation's military was met with a favorable reaction from Wall Street. The Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 all saw modest gains.
Just 10 days ago, the unrest is Egypt was having a negative effect on global markets: Oil prices spiked, food ... Read More
US NewsObama Promotes Plans For Wireless Expansion
Posted: Feb 10th, 2011 1:20 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama wants nearly all Americans to have access to speedy wireless services. He's promoting that plan in a small city in Michigan that's becoming a model for how the Internet can bring prosperity to far-flung places.
Obama on Thursday heads to Marquette, Mich., a university and tourism town ... Read More
US NewsObama Restarts Guantanamo Trials
Posted: Mar 7th, 2011 7:57 PM
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant.
Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the ... Read More
US NewsNew video from NYPD helicopter shows WTC after attack from NYPD helicopter
Updated: Mar 7th, 2011 9:42 PM
A newly released video shot from a NYPD helicopter shows the horrifying aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
The video begins with the helicopter flying around the buildings, both of which have already been hit by planes.
Read more at NY Post Read More
US NewsTrial of US contractor ends in Cuba, no verdict
Posted: Mar 5th, 2011 7:36 PM
HAVANA — The trial of a U.S. government contractor facing up to 20 years in jail on charges he sought to undermine Cuba's government wrapped up Saturday after both sides gave closing arguments, but there was no immediate word of a verdict.
The fate of Alan Gross, a 61-year-old Maryland native detained for more than a ... Read More
US NewsUnemployment Aid Requests Fall To Near 3-Year Low
Updated: Mar 3rd, 2011 11:11 AM
WASHINGTON — The number of people requesting unemployment benefits last week plunged to a nearly three-year low, bolstering the likelihood that companies will increase the pace of hiring this year.
Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 20,000 to a seasonally adjusted 368,000, the Labor Department said ... Read More
US News2 US Airmen Dead In Frankfurt Airport Shooting
Updated: Mar 2nd, 2011 12:47 PM
FRANKFURT, Germany -- A gunman fired at U.S. Air Force personnel on a bus outside Frankfurt airport Wednesday, killing two airmen and wounding two others before being taken into custody, authorities said.
Kosovo's interior minister told The Associated Press that German police have identified the shooter as a man from ... Read More
Impact, US News'U.S. discussing military options against Gadhafi'
Posted: Feb 28th, 2011 8:06 PM
The United States is in talks with its NATO partners and other allies about military options for dealing with Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, a senior official said following President Barack Obama's meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, also said the ... Read More
US NewsClinton: US Ready To Aid Libyan Opposition
Posted: Feb 27th, 2011 12:03 PM
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. is "reaching out" to Libyans trying to organize a post-Moammar Gadhafi government and is "ready and prepared to offer any type of assistance."
Two senators say the Obama administration should recognize a provisional government that seems to be taking ... Read More
US NewsFerry Carrying Americans Able To Leave Libya
Posted: Feb 25th, 2011 10:10 AM
Ferry company officials say a vessel chartered by the U.S. government has left the Libyan capital Tripoli for Malta, after being blocked in port by rough seas for three days.
Hanri Saliba, managing director of Virtu Ferries, says the ferry set sail early afternoon Friday. It is expected to take some eight hours to cross ... Read More
US NewsOrdering Pizza For 3 Years Saves Womans Life
Posted: Feb 23rd, 2011 10:58 AM
NEW YORK - A Memphis pizza delivery driver credited with saving a customer who'd fallen at home says she suspected something was wrong in part because her own mother had twice fallen and been stuck on the floor.
Speaking Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show, Domino's delivery driver Susan Guy said she became concerned when she ... Read More
Tech, US NewsApple iPad launch On Schedule, Despite Rumors
Updated: Feb 22nd, 2011 4:59 PM
Apple Inc is seen moving ahead on schedule for the anticipated launch of the next iPad tablet computer despite a Taiwanese brokerage report on a potential delay.
One person familiar with the matter said the speculation about a delay until June was "simply not true" as Apple is planning a launch in the seasonal schedule as ... Read More
US News4 American Hostages Killed By Somali Pirates
Updated: Feb 22nd, 2011 5:00 PM
Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and killed by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said, marking the first time U.S. citizens have been killed in a wave of pirate attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years.
U.S. naval forces, who were trailing the Americans' ... Read More
Israeli News, US NewsJudge Sides With King County Over Canceling Anti-Israeli Bus Ads
Posted: Feb 19th, 2011 10:11 PM
SEATTLE —A federal judge says it was reasonable for King County officials to refuse to place advertisements critical of the Israeli government on Metro buses.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones on Friday refused to grant a preliminary injunction sought by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign that would have ... Read More
US NewsObama Budget Proposal: Cuts To Target Working Poor, Middle Class
Updated: Feb 14th, 2011 8:03 AM
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, less than two months after signing tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans into law, is proposing a budget to congress that attacks programs thatassist the working poor, help the needy heat their homes, expand access to graduate-level education and undermine that type of community-based ... Read More
US NewsFor Sale: Former Staten Island Ferry Boat Listed On eBay
Updated: Feb 10th, 2011 5:02 PM
NEW YORK – Got at least $500,000 and a really, really big pool?
A former Staten Island Ferry boat, named Staten Island Gov. Herbert H. Lehman , is available on eBay.
According to the listing, the Kennedy class ferry would make an ideal casino or private club: it can carry up to 3,500 passengers and 40 vehicles.
It ... Read More
Business, Impact, US NewsAchtung! Germans Taking Over NYSE
Posted: Feb 10th, 2011 10:46 AM
Your 401(k) may soon read "Made in Germany."
The Germans are about to buy the symbol of American capitalism -- the New York Stock Exchange -- in a spectacular deal that could end Wall Street's claim to being the financial center of the world.
The Big Board's parent company, NYSE Euronet, announced yesterday it is in ... Read More
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