CHICAGO -President-elect Barack Obama selected New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his commerce secretary Wednesday, naming a prominent Hispanic to his new Cabinet and calling him a leading "economic diplomat for America" in troubled times. Richardson's nomination brings to three the number of former ...
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ISLAMABAD - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who dashed to Islamabad Thursday to defuse tension between Pakistan and India in the wake of Mumbai attacks, urged the Pakistani leadership to take ‘robust’ and ‘quick’ action against those involved in terrorism. Secretary Rice, who met ...
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DETROIT -- Local leaders of the United Auto Workers agreed to suspend the program where laid-off workers can get up to 95 percent of their wages and benefits, a concept that came to symbolize the stereotype of overpaid, underworked factory workers. Hundreds of local UAW leaders from all three ...
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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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Countries around the world are looking to Barack Obama for leadership in reaching a global climate treaty next year, but no nation will be able to singlehandedly deliver a final agreement, a senior U.N. official said Thursday. Robert Orr, assistant secretary-general for policy coordination and ...
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OTTAWA -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, facing almost certain defeat in a crucial vote next week, shut down a two-week-old session of Parliament Thursday in a bid to stay in power until he can present a budget in January. Mr. Harper's Conservatives had been due to face off against a united ...
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STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) ― A couple accused of kidnapping and torturing a 17-year-old boy in a Tracy home appeared in court Thursday afternoon to face child abuse charges. Prosecutors say Kelly Layne Lau and her husband, Michael Schumacher, abused the teen with baseball bats, belts and knives. A ...
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