WASHINGTON — Detroit’s automakers, making a second bid for $25 billion in funding, are presenting Congress with plans Tuesday to restructure their ailing companies and provide assurances that the funding will help them survive and thrive. General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Chrysler LLC ...
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Reporting from Mumbai, India, and Islamabad, Pakistan -- Both Pakistan and India made pointed references to the right of self-defense today, the eve of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's arrival in India to try to calm tensions in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Relations between the ...
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A concept that excludes nothing defines nothing. That's why one of the most urgent tasks for President-elect Barack Obama's "Team of Rivals" foreign policy brain trust is coming up with a coherent intellectual framework -- and a winning battle plan -- for the globe-spanning asymmetrical conflict ...
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Among other names, Bangkok is often referred to as "The City of Angels" and Thailand "The Land of Smiles", but traversing the city's streets this evening, I would be hard-pressed to identify the angels in this political crisis or find much to smile about. Police refuse to use force against the ...
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HOUSTON — A Bush family spokesman says former first lady Barbara Bush is being released from a Houston hospital a week after undergoing ulcer surgery. The spokesman says Bush is in good condition and recovering as expected. He says she is set to be discharged from The Methodist Hospital in Houston ...
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LINCOLN -- Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman urged president-elect Barack Obama today to create jobs, lower taxes and balance the federal budget to attack the nation's economic woes. Heineman was among 50 governors and governors-elect meeting with Obama in Philadelphia to discuss the economic problems ...
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York hospital worker was suspended for failing to report the gunshot wound of NFL star Plaxico Burress, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN Monday. New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress arrives at the 17th police precinct in Manhattan on Monday. The spokeswoman, Kathy Robinson ...
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