ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday Pakistan had given assurances of its commitment to root out terrorism and round up anyone connected to last week's attack in the Indian city of Mumbai. Rice, on a trip aimed at curbing tension between nuclear-armed India ...
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CHICAGO, Illinois , December 4, 2008 (ENS) - President-elect Barack Obama has tapped New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to be his Secretary of Commerce, a position with many natural resources responsibilities. Richardson will be in charge of rebuilding the U.S. economy on a basis of clean energy ...
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) and Chrysler LLC said on Thursday they would be open to a merger if the U.S. government mandated it as a condition for providing the emergency financing they say is needed to allow them to survive into 2009. GM ...
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Members of Congress wanted Detroit's Big Three automakers to redo their homework before they resumed begging for a government bailout today. So how'd they do? It doesn't matter. If a Senate Banking Committee on the matter Thursday was any indication, America's automakers failed badly enough and pose ...
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STOCKTON, Calif. -- A husband and wife were charged Thursday with kidnapping and torturing a 17-year-old boy authorities say was sometimes kept shackled inside their home. The boy's one-time guardian also was charged with similar abuse allegations. Kelly Layne Lau and husband Michael Schumacher, of ...
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FORT BRAGG - A military jury has acquitted a New York Army National Guard soldier in the 2005 bombing deaths of two officers in Iraq. Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez was found not guilty Thursday after a six-week trial at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He has been in military custody since his arrest in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street withstood another stream of bad economic readings Wednesday, closing sharply higher as investors shuttled between pessimism about the recession and hopes that the nation might start seeing relief soon. The major indexes saw big swings throughout the day, but all closed ...
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