Unable to reach a deal on how to help the ailing auto industry, congressional leaders announced this afternoon they'll try again in a second lame-duck session the week of Dec. 8 -- if auto executives come up with a plan. "Unless they can show us a plan, we can't show them the money," said House ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush could support a compromise bill to bail out the auto industry and Congress should pass it as soon as possible, the White House said Thursday. A proposal by Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, and Sen. Christopher Bond, a Missouri Republican, would ...
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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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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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A Metrolink commuter train and a freight train collided Thursday, but there did not appear to be any serious injuries, police said. The crash comes about nine weeks and 100 miles away from a September train crash that killed 25 people and injured 135. There are some people complaining of pain ...
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An al-Qaida online message mocks U.S. President-elect Barack Obama for praying with Jews. The audio message, by Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s deputy, appears against a backdrop of Malcolm X, the slain 1960s Muslim black leader, and Obama wearing a kipah, praying with a group of Jews. “You ...
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Annika Sorenstam 's farewell to the LPGA Tour could come two days earlier than she hoped. Sorenstam shot a 2-over par 74 in Thursday's opening round of the ADT Championship, good for a tie for 23rd in the 32-woman event, her final tournament before "stepping away" from ...
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