WASHINGTON— With weekly jobless claims benefits at a 16-year high, the White House said Thursday that President George W. Bush would quickly sign legislation pending in Congress to provide further unemployment benefits. The Senate this week is expected to take up a bill, already passed by the ...
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A mudslide triggered by days of heavy rain buried houses in a southern Philippine gold mining town, killing at least five people including children and leaving several others missing, officials said Friday. A mother and her two children were among the bodies pulled out ...
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The US Senate will take up two sweeping global warming bills in January, in the latest sign that Barack Obama's election could quickly reverse years of US footdragging on climate change. Democratic Senators, openly gleeful that years of fierce struggles against George W. Bush's Republican ...
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Reporting from Cairo -- Worried that piracy could scare ships away from the Suez Canal, Egypt on Thursday held emergency talks with nations bordering the Red Sea on how stop brazen Somali gunmen from hijacking oil tankers and other vessels. The Cairo meeting was called amid concerns that lawlessness ...
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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic U.S. congressional leaders put off action on automaker loans until next month, saying company chief executives haven't yet made a case for the help. General Motors Corp. , Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC must submit viability plans Dec. 2 and Congress would meet the ...
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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- Congress will adjourn this week without passing legislation to extend emergency loans to U.S. automakers but could return in December if the car companies present a "viable" plan for their survival, top Democratic lawmakers said Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ...
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WASHINGTON - Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to run the Homeland Security Department, is tough on illegal immigration, child abuse and Republicans. A former federal prosecutor, state attorney general and twice-elected governor of Arizona, Napolitano would ...
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