WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a $17.6 billion jobs bill on Thursday and sounded an optimistic note about the U.S. economy, saying it may soon begin adding jobs instead of losing them.
Obama made the comment in the White House Rose Garden as he put ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was set to announce on Thursday that it will begin to take a closer look at the environmental and human health impact of shale gas drilling, according to a U.S. congressman who wants to see more regulation of the practice.
The ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Thursday that sweeping healthcare overhaul legislation was on track for passage by the U.S. House of Representatives and would cut the deficit by more than $100 billion in the first 10 years.
Expanding healthcare coverage will cost about $940 billion ...More
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WASHINGTON, March 17 - Tucked inside that healthcare bill and likely to become the law of the land, is a new federal ...More
DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S.-born radical cleric linked to shootings at a U.S. army base and the failed bombing of a U.S. plane appeared to urge Muslims to conduct a jihad against the United States in an audiotape heard on Thursday.
U.S. counterterrorism officials said in ...More
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Army-ruled Myanmar deported a Burmese-American activist on Thursday after sentencing him last month to three years in prison for forgery and immigration offences.
Nyi Nyi Aung, a U.S. citizen, was sent home after serving five weeks of his sentence. The reason for his deportation, which was agreed ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff, the swindler who orchestrated a multibillion dollar fraud, was attacked by another inmate at the federal prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.
The report said that the attack occurred last December ...More
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LOS ANGELES/HONG KONG (Reuters) - MGM Mirage's plan to exit the mature Atlantic City market in favor of booming Macau removes a year of overhang from the company and should clear the way for a share offering in Hong Kong by June.
MGM ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California Highway Patrol report released on Wednesday in a sensational "runaway" Toyota Prius incident appears to support the version of events given by the driver, which the automaker has called into question.
The written account by a CHP officer who raced to the aid of James ...More
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada and the United States have adopted a unified warning system to better advise skiers and snowmobilers about the avalanche danger, Canadian officials said on Wednesday.
Canada unveiled the new warning system just days after a big snow slide slammed into a snowmobile rally near Revelstoke, British Columbia ...More
