WASHINGTON -- With weekly jobless claims benefits at a 16-year high, the White House said Thursday that President George W. Bush would sign quickly legislation pending in Congress to provide further unemployment benefits. The Senate is expected to take up this week a bill, already passed by 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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MEXICO CITY : Mexican emigration has dropped 42 percent over the last two years, a government study released Thursday showed, confirming that America has become less appealing amid an economic downturn and stepped up raids against illegal migrants. About eight of every 1,000 Mexicans emigrated ...
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DALLAS, Texas - It seems as if the gracious couple has told the story a thousand times - how the crack of an assassin's bullet struck the president just a few metres from where they stood. Sometimes it's a reporter or author, but often it's a curious citizen who hopes Bill and Gayle Newman can ...
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WASHINGTON — Mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are suspending foreclosures for about 16,000 households during the holiday season. The two companies said Thursday that they will halt foreclosure sales between Nov. 26 and Jan. 9, while they evaluate whether borrowers qualify for ...
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TUCSON - A federal appeals court has ruled that a juvenile's confession in the 1991 killings of nine people at a Buddhist temple near Phoenix was involuntary. The ruling on Johnathan Doody's appeal means that the then-17-year-old's murder convictions will be overturned and he'll be freed unless he's ...
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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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