WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday. The NBER—a private, nonprofit research organization—said its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began ...
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Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama on Monday named Eric Holder and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to lead domestic security efforts in the United States. Holder will be the United States' first African-American attorney general, the top US law enforcement official. One of his first jobs ...
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NEW DELHI; and ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - After a weekend of frantic calls pleading for India to refrain from retaliation for the attacks that killed 185 people in Mumbai (Bombay), US pressure is turning toward Pakistan. On her way to London and then New Delhi, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told ...
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People's Alliance for Democracy protesters are seen leaving the premises of the occupied Government House in Bangkok today. Thai protesters began leaving the prime minister's offices after a three-month sit-in, moving instead to reinforce a paralyzing anti-government blockade of Bangkok's two ...
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The Thanksgiving shopping weekend, one indicator of consumers' holiday spending, doesn't appear to have been the national disaster some had feared, but tempered buying and unprecedented deep discounts likely resulted in soft sales. Maryland business operators have sounded off with similar reports ...
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NEW YORK - Plaxico Burress arrived at a police station early Monday morning, where he was expected to be charged after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh. The New York Giants star wide receiver arrived in a black Cadillac Escalade wearing jeans and a black coat. Burress, who was not ...
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida. Endeavour wrapped up a 16-day trip that left the international space station remodeled and ...
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