 Romney looks to pad delegate lead in 2 primaries
 22.05.2012 18:54  0 views  0 comments
 Mitt Romney was inching closer to officially claiming the Republican presidential nomination as Arkansas and Kentucky voted in primaries Tuesday.
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| Meet John Wolfe, Candidate Posing a Challenge to Obama in Arkansas
22.05.2012 18:52 0 views 0 comments
Mitt Romney is expected to pick up at least a large portion of the 36 delegates at stake in Arkansas’ presidential primary today, bringing him ever closer to the 1,144 delegates he’ll need to win the GOP nomination. But a more compelling story is the... Read more »
| Court upholds $3.4 billion Native American deal
22.05.2012 18:49 0 views 0 comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $3.4 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit over mismanagement of government trust funds for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, ruling that it was fair, reasonable and adequate. The settlement resolved a lawsuit filed in 1996 claiming the U.S. Department of the Interior had mismanaged funds held in trust on behalf of Native Americans. The trust money was from transactions involving land allotted to individual Native Americans under an 1887 law. ... Read more »
| Syria rebels kidnap 13 Lebanese Shi'ites
22.05.2012 18:44 0 views 0 comments
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels kidnapped 13 Lebanese Shi'ites in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday as they returned home from a pilgrimage, triggering protests in Beirut in the latest unrest to spill over from Syria's 14-month-old uprising. The abductions follow street fighting in the Lebanese capital sparked by the killing of a Lebanese Sunni Muslim cleric opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - the worst clashes in Beirut since 2008 sectarian fighting that brought back memories of Lebanon's 15-year civil war. ... Read more »
| Egypt army, MPs defer defining president's role
22.05.2012 18:40 0 views 0 comments
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army and mainly Islamist politicians have deferred talks on what powers the new president will have until after this week's presidential vote, which is unlikely to produce an outright winner, political sources said on Tuesday. Egyptians go to the polls on Wednesday and Thursday and if no candidate gains more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two contenders will fight a run-off in June. ... Read more »
| Ex-Bank of Canada boss urges crisis policy changes
22.05.2012 18:35 0 views 0 comments
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada must improve its monitoring and prevention of systemic financial crises stemming from such things as housing bubbles and overly exuberant lending practices, former Bank of Canada Governor Gordon Thiessen said on Tuesday. To deal with such macro-prudential risks, Thiessen and former Senior Deputy Governor Paul Jenkins said in a paper that a new policy committee should be set up, which would be chaired by the central bank chief and include the heads of other agencies. ... Read more »
| Syria mounts raid near where Lebanese taken: group
22.05.2012 18:33 0 views 0 comments
(Reuters) - Syrian forces launched raids with tanks and other armored vehicles on Tuesday in an area of northern Aleppo province near the place where Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims were kidnapped earlier, an opposition group said. The British-based group's head, Rami Abdulrahman, said people in the town of Azaz in Aleppo province had told him Syrian forces were combing some of the districts. (Reporting by Mariam Karouny; Editing by Michael Roddy) Read more »
| SEC says probing JPMorgan's financial reporting
22.05.2012 18:31 0 views 0 comments
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told lawmakers on Tuesday that her agency is probing JPMorgan Chase and Co's financial reporting and emphasized that big banks are required to publicly disclose changes to the models they use to measure risk. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro assured a Senate Banking Committee that the SEC is investigating JPMorgan's revelation earlier this month that it suffered at least $2 billion in losses on complex trades that started as hedges but morphed into a risky bet. ...
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| Next Up: Obama Changes Lines of Succession for Federal Departments
22.05.2012 18:22 0 views 0 comments
 Attention doomsday prophets: President Obama has initiated an executive-branch shakeup that could be consequential in the event of a nuclear apocalypse. This week, Obama altered the lines of succession at the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Management and...
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| Vodafone ups stakes in Indian battle
22.05.2012 18:11 0 views 0 comments
 LONDON/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao ramped up the rhetoric in his fight with the Indian government on Tuesday, accusing the country of deterring foreign investment but warning that he would not walk away. The result, the company said, was that it was now unlikely to float shares in the business this year. "There has been widespread concern in India and in the world about this," Colao said. "It is time for the political leadership of the country to look their bureaucrats in the eye and ask whether this is what they want for their country. ...
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| SEC head says Facebook IPO issues should be reviewed
22.05.2012 18:08 0 views 0 comments
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top securities regulator said on Tuesday that the problems surrounding Facebook's initial public offering should be reviewed, but those issues should not shake investor confidence in the markets. "I think there is a lot of reason to have confidence in our markets and in the integrity of how they operate, but there are issues that we need to look at specifically with respect to Facebook," Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro told reporters as she exited a Senate Banking Committee hearing. ...
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| Equatorial Guinea leader promotes son in reshuffle
22.05.2012 18:08 0 views 0 comments
DAKAR (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea President Teodor Obiang Nguema has promoted his farm minister son - wanted in France for alleged money laundering - to vice president in charge of national defense and state security, a government statement said on Tuesday. The promotion was part of a cabinet reshuffle and reform of the constitution which critics of the oil-rich Central African state believe is aimed at ensuring a future handover of power to Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, widely known as "Teodorin". ... Read more »
| Reid Blames Tea Party Extremism for Looming 'Taxmaggedon'
22.05.2012 17:59 0 views 0 comments
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 Another line in the sand has been drawn as Congress faces a daunting lame-duck year-end fiscal crisis dubbed around Capitol Hill as “Taxmaggedon.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., responded to a letter from Senate Republicans today in which they called for an immediate extension...
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| Obama dangles $400 million to spur school change
22.05.2012 17:54 0 views 0 comments
 (Reuters) - Seeking to spur a bold rethinking of the American classroom, the Obama administration on Tuesday will propose divvying up $400 million among local school districts that devise new ways of reaching children, especially students from poor and rural families. The competition will reward districts that move away from the centuries-old model of a teacher standing at the front of a classroom, delivering the same lesson to all students, according to draft regulations released Tuesday. ...
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| Hezbollah calls for calm after Syria kidnapping
22.05.2012 17:54 0 views 0 comments
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah group called for calm on Tuesday after people blocked roads and burned tires in southern Beirut in protest against the kidnapping of 13 Lebanese Shi'ites by rebels in neighboring Syria. "Blocking roads or carrying out any act of violence or individual action will not help this case at all," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a statement broadcast by Lebanese TV stations. (Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Michael Roddy) Read more »
| U.S. ambassador in Kabul to leave because of health
22.05.2012 17:49 0 views 0 comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker confirmed on Tuesday that he plans to step down this summer because of ill health and sources said he was held in high regard and was not pushed out. "Today, Ambassador Ryan Crocker confirmed to the Afghan Government, U.S. Mission Afghanistan, and the ISAF community that he intends to depart his post for health reasons in mid-summer," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, referring to the International Security Assistance Force. ... Read more »
| Rush Limbaugh Bust Joins President, Slave, Baseball MVP in Missouri Capitol
22.05.2012 17:47 0 views 0 comments
 Conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh joined the ranks of a U.S. president, a Missouri governor and a baseball Hall of Famer Monday when a bust of the controversial commentator was put on display in the Missouri Capitol building in Jefferson City. Limbaugh, who recently set...
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| Reagan Foundation Blasts "Craven" Blood Auction
22.05.2012 17:47 0 views 0 comments
 The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation’s executive director, John Heubusch, has declared an overseas auction house’s plan to sell off a vial stained with the late president’s blood “a craven act,” and promised his organization “will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase.”...
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| Diverted U.S. Airways flight lands safely: TSA
22.05.2012 17:47 0 views 0 comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Airways flight from Paris to Charlotte, North Carolina, was diverted to an airport in Maine where it landed safely after reports of a passenger showing "suspicious behavior," the Transportation Security Administration said on Tuesday. U.S. Airways flight 787 landed safely in Bangor, a statement from TSA said. "TSA is aware of reports of a passenger who exhibited suspicious behavior during flight. Out of an abundance of caution the flight was diverted to BGR (Bangor) where it was met by law enforcement," the statement said. ... Read more »
| Top Romney backer says Bain record is fair game
22.05.2012 17:45 0 views 0 comments
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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top supporter of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney acknowledged on Tuesday that the candidate's business record with Bain Capital is fair game in the battle for the White House, but only if seen as a whole. Former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, a Romney adviser, accused President Barack Obama's campaign of cherry-picking by running ads that only focus on Bain investments that were unsuccessful. ...
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