The Christian Science Monitor - When Xavier Alvarez stood up and introduced himself at a local water district meeting in July 2007, he had no idea he was about to commit a federal crime.
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2012-02-22 21:09
2012-02-22 21:09
Could Rick Santorum super PAC do more harm than good? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - One point being made repeatedly in the media of late is that super PACs are changing the usual dynamics of the presidential nominating process by allowing underdog Republican candidates to remain in the race.
2012-02-22 21:09
Boeing says flaw could affect 55 Dreamliners (Reuters)
Reuters - About 55 Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jets may have a recently discovered flaw in the fuselage, the company said on Wednesday, while reiterating that the world's first carbon-plastic passenger plane is safe to fly.
2012-02-22 21:09
Greece pores over bailout laws amid protests (Reuters)
Reuters - Trade unionists, communists and pensioners angry at punishing spending cuts in Greece marched through central Athens on Wednesday as lawmakers set to work on legislation needed to secure payment of a second bailout for the debt-laden country.
2012-02-22 21:09
Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests (Reuters)
Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country.
2012-02-22 21:09
Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission (Reuters)
Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists.
2012-02-22 21:09
Home resales at 1-1/2 year-high, supply falls (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. home resales rose to a 1-1/2 year high in January, pushing the supply of properties on the market to the lowest level in almost seven years in a hopeful sign for the housing sector.
2012-02-22 21:09
Fitch downgrades Greece on debt swap plan (Reuters)
Reuters - Fitch cut Greece's long-term ratings on Wednesday to its lowest rating above a default, becoming the first ratings agency to make the widely expected downgrade after the country announced a bond exchange plan to ease its massive debt burden.
2012-02-22 21:09
U.S., French journalists killed in Syria (Reuters)
Reuters - American correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when rockets fired by government forces hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said.
2012-02-22 21:09
Obama urges corporate tax cut, closing loopholes (Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama launched a dialogue with corporate America on Wednesday over business tax reform, offering his first clear plan to cut the corporate tax rate, with little prospect of it becoming law in an election year.
2012-02-22 21:09
'X Factor' teenager Crow signs TV, record deal (AP)
AP - Rachel Crow was a tearful runner-up on "The X Factor," but she's a winner now.
2012-02-22 21:09
Jurors weigh murder case of ex-Va. lacrosse player (AP)
AP - Jurors in the murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player began deliberating Wednesday whether he battered his ex-girlfriend to death in a drunken, jealous rage or if his intent to talk with her spiraled out of control, leaving her bleeding and dying in her bedroom.
2012-02-22 21:09
Italy: Divers find 8 more bodies in ship wreckage (AP)
AP - Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said.
2012-02-22 21:09
W.Va. mine boss charged with fraud in deadly blast (AP)
AP - The superintendent of the West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to defraud the federal government, becoming the highest-ranking employee to face criminal prosecution in an investigation that appeared to be moving steadily up the corporate ladder.
2012-02-22 21:09
Rising sales point to better year for housing (AP)
AP - The housing market is flashing signs of health ahead of the spring-buying season.
2012-02-22 04:30
Mitt Romney remains fundraising king, but look who's hard on his heels (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Mitt Romney raised more money ($6.5 million) and spent more money ($19 million) in January than any of the other Republican presidential contenders. By the end of the month, he had won two of four contests. Yet three weeks into February รข
2012-02-22 04:30
Comcast to take on Netflix with Web video service (Reuters)
Reuters - Comcast Corp, the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, became the latest major name to take on Netflix Inc on Tuesday when it announced plans for an online video service offering a library of TV shows and movies.
2012-02-22 04:30
Wal-Mart holiday price cuts hit profits (Reuters)
Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc's price cuts hurt its fourth-quarter profit, reminding investors that steps the world's largest retailer is taking to bring back shoppers do come at a cost.
2012-02-22 04:30
MF Global failure creates tax crunch for farmers (Reuters)
Reuters - With the tax man breathing down his neck, Ohio farmer Tony Rohrs is scrambling to figure out how much money he made last year in an account at MF Global.
2012-02-22 04:30
Dell shares fall on earnings miss, outlook (Reuters)
Reuters - Dell Inc forecast fiscal first-quarter revenue below Wall Street's expectations, stoking fears the PC industry has not fully emerged from its downturn and sending the company's shares more than 4 percent lower.
2012-02-22 04:30
Shifting focus, Obama campaign targets Santorum on economy (Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign regularly rips Mitt Romney, long viewed as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, for his economic policies. On Tuesday, it added Romney's rival Rick Santorum to its list of top targets.
2012-02-22 04:30
Obama to float corporate tax overhaul Wednesday (Reuters)
Reuters - The Treasury Department on Wednesday will roll out a corporate tax reform plan from President Barack Obama, administration officials said on Tuesday, with expectations low for any major tax code overhaul in an election year.
2012-02-22 04:30
EU leaders to ask G20 to back higher IMF funds (Reuters)
Reuters - European Union leaders will call at a summit next week for the world's 20 biggest economies (G20) to agree in April to substantially boost funds available to the International Monetary Fund, draft conclusions of the meeting showed.
2012-02-22 04:30
Europe seals new Greek bailout but doubts remain (Reuters)
Reuters - Euro zone finance ministers agreed a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) rescue for Greece on Tuesday to avert an imminent chaotic default after forcing Athens to commit to unpopular cuts and private bondholders to take bigger losses.
2012-02-22 04:30
Inherited comic collection expected to fetch $2M (AP)
AP - Michael Rorrer said his great aunt once mentioned having comic books she would one day give him and his brother, but it was a passing remark made when they were boys and still into superheroes.
2012-02-22 04:30
Obama joins Jagger, B.B. King, to belt out blues (AP)
AP - The president just couldn't say no: Mick Jagger held out a mic almost by way of command, and soon Barack Obama was belting out the blues with the best of them.
2012-02-22 04:30
New family of legless amphibians found in India (AP)
AP - Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India — unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.
2012-02-22 04:30
Dozens killed in Syria, Red Cross urges cease-fire (AP)
AP - Food and water are running dangerously low in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, with frantic cries for help from residents amid government shelling that pounded rebel strongholds and killed at least 30 people Tuesday, activists said.
2012-02-22 04:30
11 children removed from Texas home in abuse case (AP)
AP - Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds.
2012-02-22 04:30
Affirmative action in college admissions goes back before Supreme Court (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to take up a potential blockbuster case testing the constitutionality of race-based admissions policies at the University of Texas.
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