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The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing a Bush-era limit that ran counter to scientific recommendations.
It looks like the pilot union at United Airlines will be trying to get along better with the airline's management.
Love for each other and the environment — and creative thriftiness — have prompted a Spokane couple to collect aluminum cans to help pay for their wedding.
Houston police say a high school student has confessed to hiring a friend to kill his mother and that both have been charged with capital murder in her death.
Bakers Footwear Group Inc., which sells women's shoes, said Thursday that after a key sales figure rose 9.9 percent in December it expects to report much higher fourth-quarter income than a year earlier.
A defense contractor with ties to Rep. John Murtha has been suspended again from bidding on government contracts, this time for paying more than $200,000 in kickbacks to another contractor turned government witness.
Natural gas producer Forest Oil Corp. said Thursday it will increase capital spending by 18 percent this year as it expands drilling activity.
Retailer Ross Stores Inc. boosted its fourth-quarter outlook Thursday after posting sharply higher December sales.
Modern relationships can be complex. Just ask White House budget director Peter Orszag, whose ex-girlfriend gave birth to his daughter a few weeks before he got engaged to a different woman.
Slovakia's interior minister has accepted the resignation of senior police official Tibor Mako after a failed security test led to explosives being carried on board a flight to Ireland.
Precious metals explorer Goldcorp Inc. said Thursday it would buy a 70 percent stake in a copper-gold mining project in north-central Chile.
In a Dec. 27 obituary of civil rights attorney Percy Sutton, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Sutton's father, Samuel, was a former slave. A family spokeswoman, Terrie Williams, says that Sutton's father lived in times of U.S. slavery but was not enslaved. In a videotaped oral history, Sutton said that his family had believed for years that his father had been born into slavery in Virginia, but found out later that his father was born free in Texas.
Discount store operator Duckwall-Alco Stores Inc. said Thursday that December sales in its stores that have been open at least a year fell 2.3 percent from a year earlier as consumers held back on spending.
Coal producer Massey Energy is upping Chief Executive Don Blankenship's potential pay.
Kohl's Corp. raised its fourth-quarter profit guidance on Thursday after December sales climbed at a faster-than-expected pace as shoppers gravitated toward its discount prices during the holidays.
Gaza militants fired at least 10 mortar shells at Israel on Thursday, a day after Israel announced it successfully tested a high-tech shield against future mortar and rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled territory.
Rafael Nadal reached the semifinals of the Qatar Open after Steve Darcis of Belgium retired with a back problem Thursday while trailing 6-1, 2-0.
With government revenues low and spending high, it's no wonder that new tax rules have emerged. The new Roth IRA rules may be one of the few tax changes that provide a win-win opportunity for both investors and the government.
Authorities say a man who took off his clothes and began jogging in near-freezing temperatures near the White House has been taken into custody and hospitalized for a mental evaluation.
Watch and accessories maker Fossil Inc. said Thursday that it expects its fourth-quarter profit to be higher than the top of the range it forecast because its sales were better than expected.
Women's apparel retailer Cato Corp. on Thursday sharply raised its fourth-quarter guidance as it reported that sales in stores open at least one year climbed 7 percent in December.
Home decor retailer Kirkland's Inc. said Thursday that sales in November and December at its stores that had been open at least one year rose 9.7 percent from 2008.
General Motors made its first mass-produced electric car battery Thursday as it gears up to sell the new Chevrolet Volt to the general public later this year.
Several reportedly shot at St. Louis businessA gunman stormed a power company in north St. Louis and shot several people, at least one fatally, according to local media on Thursday.
Jail-bound 'balloon boy' dad: It wasn't a hoaxThe Colorado father who pleaded guilty to a felony in the runaway balloon saga insisted in an interview set to air Friday that the event wasn't a hoax.
Key Republican Strategist Can't Name One Way That Republicans Helped the Country in the Last 20 YearsTodd Harris can't name one thing the Republicans did in the last 10 – 20 years to help the country. His excuse is basically "that's not my job to know that."
'Negro' Race Choice On Census Form Sparks Outrage A fiery blast from the past is conjuring controversy in the new millennium. The word "negro" is now featured on an official U.S. document and now many are questioning if the Census Bureau is being insensitive.
Sarah Palin will headline first-ever Tea Party ConventionAlmost 1-1/2 years since she shook up American politics with her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is set to headline another landmark political event: the first-ever Tea Party Convention next month in Nashvill …
Bill O'Reilly Labels NPR JihadistFNC's Bill O'Reilly has been behaving relatively sanely, but that changed tonight on his program The O'Reilly Factor when he expressed his outrage at an animated political cartoon by Mark Fiore about learning to speak teabag which was posted on their website November 12, by label …
White House: We will NOT discuss broken C-Span/Healthcare promiseOn Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president's campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span.
Fox News Contributor Goes Off on Anti-Gay RantRadio host, Townhall.com columnist, and Fox News Channel contributor Sandy Rios wants to know if Rep. Mark Kirk is gay, or if Kirk's roommate is gay. Probably whether Kirk has ever even met a gay man, too, though she doesn't quite spell that out in her strange diatribe.
Words Conservatives Can't SayThe right is screaming that President Obama either refuses, or is unable to use the word "terrorist." This, of course is false, but you already knew that.
After crash, activists up 'whale war'A conservation group searched Antarctic waters by helicopter for a key Japanese whaling ship, renewing its relentless pursuit one day after one of its boats was wrecked in a clash.
CES. The biggest consumer electronics show in the world, boasting a lengthy history of important product introductions. The Nintendo Entertainment System? DVD? The camcorder? Blu-Ray? Virtual Boy? (On second thought, scratch that last one.)
America Rising: Is This Viral Video Sensation Really Grassroots Or The GOP In Disguise?A viral video titled, "America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians" has been burning up the charts on YouTube, making the rounds on the super-conservative blogs and getting Right Wing Tea Party people all excited.
'Brutally cold' in Midwest - once againSnow was piled so high in Iowa that drivers couldn't see across intersections as heavy snow and wind chills as low as 52 below zero blasted much of the Midwest on Thursday.
Obama to release report on botched terror bidThe U.S. public is getting its clearest look at the government missteps that allowed a suspected terrorist to slip through post-Sept. 11 security and threaten lives on American soil.
Fruits freeze, iguanas drop from trees in FloridaAcross the so-called Sunshine State, oranges and strawberries are freezing, icicles are hanging off palm fronds, and iguanas paralyzed by the cold are falling out of trees.
Afghan attack puts a rare face on C.I.A.'s workSince a bombing killed seven Americans at a CIA base in Afghanistan, details of the lives of the victims have trickled out, providing a peek into the closed society of the spy agency.
Just for Hek ... a one-of-a-kind card for a one-of-a-kind Viner! A. Mac A. Macarthur/Copyrights 2010
A Tale Of Two HeadlinesThese two headlines, both currently on Chicago Breaking News, should strike fear in your heart – unless you are a Progressive Democrat, in which case it will inspire denial. State panel votes in favor of Illinois Gitmo plan
EPA aims to tighten Bush smog rulesFollowing a review of Bush-era rules, the Environmental Protection Agency proposes what it called "the strictest health standards to date for smog."
The Real Reason Apple is SucessfulApple does not just offer you one of the best phones, but also ways to get the best music and the best applications for your phone.
Radicals React: Holocaust Museum Killer Was a Hero (or a Patsy) White supremacists reacted swiftly to the death of Holocaust Museum shooter and long-time neo-Nazi James von Brunn by lauding his actions and promoting conspiracy theories about his demise.
Naked jogger nabbed near White HouseA man was taken into custody and later hospitalized for a mental evaluation after he took off his clothes and began a jog a few blocks from the White House.
U.S. Believes 1 In 5 Ex - Detainees Joining Militants WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A classified Pentagon assessment shows about one in five detainees released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay has joined or is suspected of joining militant groups like al Qaeda, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
White House Budget Director Asks for 'Privacy' for Love ChildThe White House budget director, who recently announced his engagement to an ABC News reporter, is the father of a baby girl born to his ex girlfriend less than two months ago, the New York Post reported, citing unnamed inside sources.
Fannie, Freddie, and the New Red and BlueBoth sides are right and both sides are wrong. I know that sounds like pox-on-both-their-houses pundit sophistry. But the point is that if you focus on one side and not the other, you miss the entire point.
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