Remnants of Lee bring floods to soggy Northeast AP - 1 hr 36 mins agoFrom Maryland to New England, the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee on Thursday flooded roads and highways, swelled waterways and put emergency responders still weary from dealing with last week's cleanup back on alert. More »Remnants of Lee bring floods to soggy Northeast
From Maryland to New England, the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee on Thursday flooded roads and highways, swelled waterways and put emergency responders still weary from dealing with last week's cleanup back on alert.
Analysis: GOP debate raises jobs pressure on Obama AP - 42 mins agoThe Republican presidential debate made two things clear: The 2012 contest is focused more than ever on jobs, and the GOP field is led by two men who can make plausible, though certainly imperfect, claims of experience in … More »Analysis: GOP debate raises jobs pressure on Obama
The Republican presidential debate made two things clear: The 2012 contest is focused more than ever on jobs, and the GOP field is led by two men who can make plausible, though certainly imperfect, claims of experience in job creation.
NYC mayor: NYPD not unfair in surveillance AP - 1 hr 29 mins agoNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the New York Police Department's surveillance of the city's ethnic neighborhoods had not unfairly targeted any group in an effort to root out possible terror connections, and compared … More »NYC mayor: NYPD not unfair in surveillance
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the New York Police Department's surveillance of the city's ethnic neighborhoods had not unfairly targeted any group in an effort to root out possible terror connections, and compared it to screening kids for measles.
- Texas residents quickly fled as wildfire closed in AP - 1 hr 28 mins ago
Dennis Silman was in line at the store when his wife's urgent call came through: They needed to get out. Smoke was drifting up through the woods and the wildfire that just 30 minutes earlier wasn't near enough to pose a problem … More »Texas residents quickly fled as wildfire closed in
Dennis Silman was in line at the store when his wife's urgent call came through: They needed to get out. Smoke was drifting up through the woods and the wildfire that just 30 minutes earlier wasn't near enough to pose a problem was visible over the treetops by the time he got home.
ESSAY: Reliving instead of remembering Sept. 11 AP - 1 hr 27 mins agoThe planes will crash. You'll hear police sirens, the voices of those who lived and many who didn't. You'll feel like you're in the buildings. And then they'll fall. More »ESSAY: Reliving instead of remembering Sept. 11
The planes will crash. You'll hear police sirens, the voices of those who lived and many who didn't. You'll feel like you're in the buildings. And then they'll fall.
- Russians searching for crashed plane's recorders AP - 1 hr 21 mins ago
President Dmitry Medvedev called Thursday for fast changes in Russia's troubled air transport industry — including sharply reducing the number of airlines — as the country mourned a crash that killed 43 people, among them most of a top hockey team with European and NHL players.
- Texas A&M's move to SEC held up by legal threat AP - 4 hrs ago
Texas A&M and the Southeastern Conference have a roadblock standing in the way of their anticipated union: Baylor.
- Obama to call for urgent steps on economy Reuters - 7 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a jobs package worth more than $300 billon on Thursday, staking his re-election hopes on a call for urgent bipartisan action to revive the faltering economy.
- ECB to signal change in policy tack Reuters - 4 hrs ago
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is expected to signal a change in policy direction on Thursday, halting an interest-rate rise cycle just five months after it started as the euro zone debt crisis weighs on the economy.
- Bernanke unlikely to show his hand on Fed easing Reuters - 7 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anyone expecting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to outline bold new measures to boost flagging U.S. growth on Thursday is likely to come away disappointed.
- Post-9/11 U.S. intelligence reforms take root, problems remain Reuters - 6 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies will forever be scarred by their failure to connect the dots and detect the September 11 plot, but a decade later efforts to break down barriers to information-sharing are taking root.
- Fugitive Gaddafi vows to stay in Libya Reuters - 18 mins ago
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi resurfaced on the air waves to berate his enemies as rats and stray dogs and insist he was still in Libya to fight on, but he offered them no clues about where they could find him.
- Greek backsliding sparks euro exit talk Reuters - 2 hrs 13 mins ago
BERLIN (Reuters) - Anger at Greece's failure to meet fiscal targets that are a condition for its international bailout is nearing breaking point in Berlin and other European capitals, with senior politicians now talking openly about the possibility of Athens exiting the euro zone.
- Analysis: Why would anyone want to be Yahoo's CEO? Reuters - 6 hrs ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - There are few surer ways for an executive to lose a good reputation than to be CEO of Yahoo Inc. Just ask Carol Bartz or Terry Semel.
- Weather disasters keep costing U.S. billions this year Reuters - 8 hrs ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.
Court convicts Galliano in anti-Semitism case AP - 27 mins ago
A Paris court has convicted former Christian Dior designer John Galliano for making anti-Semitic insults and gave him a suspended sentence of euro6,000 ($8,400) in f … More »Court convicts Galliano in anti-Semitism case
A Paris court has convicted former Christian Dior designer John Galliano for making anti-Semitic insults and gave him a suspended sentence of euro6,000 ($8,400) in fines.
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