NEW YORK – Wall Street slid lower Thursday, with inflation concerns and a disappointing earnings report from Viacom Inc. (VIA) prompting investors to collect profits. A drop in oil prices failed to mitigate the losses. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 67.95, or 0.61 percent, to …
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21 November
Iraq Funding Bill Draws Bush Veto Threat
WASHINGTON – A White House veto threat on a huge Senate bill combining war funding and hurricane relief has won praise from conservative allies but has invited scrutiny of President George W. Bush‘s funding demands for the fighting in Iraq. The Bush administration demanded that the $106.5 billion funding bill …
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21 November
EU: CIA Conducted Over 1,000 Europe Flights
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The CIA has conducted more than 1,000 clandestine flights in Europe since 2001, and some of them secretly took away terror suspects to countries where they could face torture, European Union lawmakers said Wednesday. Legislators selected to look into allegations of questionable CIA activities in Europe said …
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21 November
Still Thirsty: U.S. Consumers Still Buying Gas Guzzlers
DETROIT – U.S. consumers bought vehicles with big, gas-guzzling engines at an unchanged rate in the first three months of the year despite rising gas prices, according to a survey released Monday. In the first quarter, about 25 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States were equipped …
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21 November
Viacom Ponies Up $102M to Buy Game Networker Xfire
NEW YORK – Viacom Inc. (VIA) on Monday said it will buy Xfire, an online games technology company, for $102 million in a bid to dominate the youth market on the Internet as it has on television. Viacom, owner of MTV Networks, Nickelodeon and the Paramount movie studios, said Xfire …
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21 November
Marine Unfazed by Sniper Shot to Head
RAMADI, Iraq – The young Marine had just shot a suspected insurgent and was walking back across the villa’s rooftop when he keeled over from a terrific thud to the back of his head. A sniper had fired a single, well-aimed bullet that tore through the top of Lance Cpl. …
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21 November
Russia: Iran Must Cooperate With IAEA
MOSCOW – Russia dug in its heels Friday and indicated it would continue to resist U.S. calls to isolate Iran, saying the nuclear crisis must be solved under the aegis of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. “The search for a solution must follow the route of diplomacy, and our position …
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21 November
Prison Officer Reprimanded for Showing 'Brokeback'
NORFOLK, Mass. – A prison officer faces punishment for showing the gay cowboy movie “Brokeback Mountain” to inmates at the state’s largest prison, a corrections department spokeswoman said. Massachusetts Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said the officer, whose name was not released, had not followed standard procedure for screening …
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21 November
Celebrities Pay Tribute to Dana Reeve
NEW YORK – Barbara Walters, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and New York Yankees manager Joe Torre were among the celebrities paying tribute to Dana Reeve at the singer-actress’ memorial service Monday. “She had a light within her that was captured by the way people talked about her …
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21 November
Mexican Soldiers Seize $100M Cocaine Shipment
MEXICO CITY – Mexican soldiers seized 5 1/2 tons of cocaine worth more than $100 million from a commercial plane arriving from Venezuela, Mexico’s Defense Department announced Tuesday. The army was waiting for the plane on Monday at the airport of Cuidad de Carmen, 550 miles east of Mexico City, …
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