Witnessed by many, a US embassy truckload of steel boxes was unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott Hotel on the same night when Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.
"If the U.S. sends its troops into the tribal areas, it will be a bigger quagmire than Iraq," said Khan, a former cricket star seeking the nation's presidency. "It will be the biggest disaster U.S. could commit."
Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.
When early humans mastered the use of fire, their immediate rewards were warmth, light, and protection from nocturnal predators. Investigators have assumed that our ancestors also quickly realized the advantages of flame-cooked food
Values continue to tumble, down 5.3% in August alone, pushing all homeowner’s net-worth lower and many into an even deeper negative-equity position and an exponentially greater chance of loan default.
The first cell phone running Google Inc.'s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs
Bernanke, [B]anks will have a basis for valuing those assets and will not have to use fire sale prices. Their capital will not be unreasonably marked down.
Mike Renzulli points out that the Boston Tea Party Presidential candidate Charles Jay is a potential alternate write-in candidate in Arizona for the November election.
An 11-year-old boy in Colorado was suspended from school after he refused to take off a shirt that read, “Obama is a terrorist’s best friend.” His father says that the school is violating his son’s First Amendment rights.
[cuz someone's got to made example for harming the King's man] A Georgia man convicted of killing an off-duty police officer was set to be executed even though witnesses have recanted their testimony and questions remain about his guilt
Nobody in their right mind and in a free market would do something like this, as it leaves a big ticking nuclear device on the balance sheet of the acquirer - but in this case, that "someone" is you, the taxpayer...
Submit bad assets you'd like the government to take off your hands. And remember, when estimating the value of your limited edition Hanson CD "MMMbop", it's not what you can sell these items for that matters, it's what you think
[If you don't pass this, we (the Bush Administration and the GOP) will blame you for the recession report when we finally release it in time for the elections.]
Federal agents in New Hampshire have once again arrested peaceful activist Lauren Canario on trumped up charges after luring her into an ambush by promising to return illegally seized property taken from her during an earlier arrest.
“The magic trillion-dollar deficit is within sight,” says Simon Derrick, of Bank of New York Mellon, “The combination of the fiscal position and loose monetary policy is likely to be significantly dollar-negative.
According to my research, America's move to feudalism is in the process of being finalized. The backbone of the middle class is home ownership which also includes the property under the building. I believe that the new system will to leasehold...
Revelations is the story of the End Times. For nearly 2,000 years people have argued about whether or not those times had come. Now, the argument is over. Prepare to meet the truth.
Paulson and Bernake are not happy that congress may want to deliberate on a bailout plan and are doing everything in their power to force the process forward even in the face of a Rasmussen poll showing only 7% of voters support the plan.
``This is sobering, absolutely sobering, even to someone who doesn't drink,'' said Stan Collender, a former analyst for the House and Senate budget committees
The higher the prices the government pays for troubled mortgage securities held by banks, the more the rescue will bolster those banks and sustain the lending that is vital to the broader economy. But higher prices would also mean a worse deal for ta
Older Americans with investments are among the hardest hit by the turmoil in the financial markets and have the least opportunity to recover. As companies have switched from fixed pensions to 401(k) accounts, retirees risk losing big chunks of their
The number of immigrants coming to the United States slowed substantially in 2007, with the nation's foreign-born population growing by only 511,000, compared with about a million a year since 2000, according to Census figures released today.
The U.S. government has quietly recast policies that affect the way information is gathered from U.S. citizens and others crossing the border and what is done with it, including relaxing a two-decade-old policy that placed a high bar on federal agent
The size of the bailout is growing by leaps and bounds. Inquiring minds are asking A $1.8 Trillion Bailout: Where the Money's Going? A quick check of the totals shows that is $1.809 trillion dollars that Congress is hell bent on wasting.
While states Arizona and Alaska rejected Real IDs, making Sarah Palin a historic governor, John McCain fully supports Real ID. Considering Real ID's fierce opposition from states, this leaves the McCain/Palin ticket on different sides of the vot