Dow Barrels Ahead After Debt Remarks

Dow Barrels Ahead After Debt Remarks


Dow Barrels Ahead After Debt Remarks

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:23 PM PDT

The president's comments on progress toward agreement on the debt ceiling gave a boost to shares, already up on earnings news.


Bachmann Says Migraines Won’t Be a Problem if She’s Elected President

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:25 PM PDT

Representative Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign denied a report that migraines at times left her "incapacitated," saying they would not affect her ability to serve.


Minnesota Lawmakers Called to Special Session to End Impasse

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:10 PM PDT

Lawmakers returned to the state Capitol for a special session intended to end a budget impasse that has shut state business since July 1.


Books of The Times: The Lure of Cocaine, Once Hailed as Cure-All

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:29 PM PDT

In "An Anatomy of Addiction," Howard Merkel views cocaine through the eyes of two fans, Freud and the surgeon William Halsted.


Europe Debates How Aggressively to Cut Greece's Debt

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:40 PM PDT

Euro-zone governments are locked in a debate over how aggressively they should reduce Greece's existing debt burden as part of a new financing package for the country, senior euro-zone officials said.


Strauss-Kahn Accusers' Lawyers, Prosecutors Meet

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:29 PM PDT

Lawyers for a French novelist and a New York hotel maid who have accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault met with New York prosecutors on Tuesday.


Strong earthquake hits Central Asia: USGS

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:24 PM PDT

ALMATY (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Central Asia's densely populated Ferghana valley, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.


Ex-Chilean president's death was suicide

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Chile's Legal Medical Service confirmed Tuesday that the cause of President Salvador Allende's death in 1973 was suicide. A judge had ordered exhumation of the body as part of a human rights investigation.


Google Spending Millions to Find the Next Google

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:23 PM PDT

Google is playing venture capitalist in the hottest market for technology start-up companies in over a decade.


Bits: Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:23 PM PDT

Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, was charged with stealing millions of documents from M.I.T. and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers.


Jobs at risk in home care plan

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:00 PM PDT

Concerns have been raised over Wrexham council's plans to privatise adult home care services, with the loss of more than 50 jobs.


Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Uzbekistan: USGS

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:56 PM PDT

(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Uzbekistan, the U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday.


Obama backs "Gang of Six" deficit plan

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:37 PM PDT

US president gives nod to bipartisan proposal to cut government spending while raising $1.2 trillion in revenue.


China says Xinjiang attack was 'terrorist'

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:54 PM PDT

But an exiled Uighur group accused police of firing on peaceful protesters, leading to fighting between the two sides.


Once-Celebrated Recklessness Leads to Dykstra’s Financial Fall

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:28 PM PDT

Three years ago, Lenny Dykstra listed his net worth as $58 million. Now he is unable to post $500,000 bail and facing charges that include bankruptcy fraud.


Famine in Somalia

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 05:35 AM PDT

The UN about to declare famine after East Africa drought


Bits: Arrests Likely in Hacker Group Case

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 11:44 AM PDT

Federal authorities in Washington are expected to announce charges on Tuesday against about a dozen suspected members of the hacker group Anonymous, officials said.


Wines of The Times: A Stepchild Lacks Identity

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 11:46 AM PDT

In a tasting of recent vintages of sauvignon blanc from Northern California, the wine panel found that too many lacked freshness and vibrancy.


Slain kids cast larger shadow on Mexican drug war

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:30 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Once largely spectators to the deaths of hitmen, police and innocent bystanders, children are increasingly in the firing line of Mexico's drug war.


France's Hollande to be questioned over Banon case

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 12:44 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential contender Francois Hollande will be questioned by police investigating a writer's accusations that ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her, legal sources said on Tuesday.


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