NEW YORK - Ratings agency Standard & Poor's took Aon Corp. off CreditWatch Thursday and affirmed the company's credit rating. Aon, an insurance broker, carries an investment-grade "BBB+" rating. Standard & Poor's put the company on watch Aug. 22, seeing a possible downgrade after it announced it ...
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Congress has passed legislation extending jobless benefits through the December holidays, keeping checks flowing to laid-off workers who would otherwise lose them. The Senate vote came just hours after the White House said President George W. Bush was concerned about people losing their jobs and ...
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WASHINGTON -- Eric Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama's likely choice for U.S. attorney general, in 1999 penned the first federal legal guidelines for prosecuting corporations and has spent the last several years representing large companies for a leading Washington law firm. Mr. Holder, if ...
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DETROIT (AP) ― Democratic leaders in Congress decided Thursday to delay a vote to bail out automakers until December, according to officials, and will first demand the Big 3 companies show how the funds would transform their beleaguered industry. Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said ...
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FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The Army has set a date for its first execution in nearly 50 years. The military said Thursday that former North Carolina soldier Ronald A. Gray is to be executed Dec. 10 at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was convicted of multiple rapes and murders ...
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Officials say an explosion at an east Texas oil refinery sparked a fire and injured some employees. Tyler Fire Capt. Jeff Aiken says that a loud explosion was reported Thursday afternoon and that several fire crews were on the scene. He doesn't have details on injuries but says the fire subsided ...
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A Mexican government survey shows a sharp drop in emigration. The National Statistics and Geography Institute says about eight of every 1,000 Mexicans left to live abroad between February and May of this year. That's a 42 percent drop from the same period in 2006. In all of 2007, some 814,000 ...
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