Hospital Laundry Workers Set to Strike Over Safety, Pay, Benefits

Workers at the nation's largest health care laundry service are set to strike Thursday to protest unsanitary and unsafe working conditions, low pay and "paltry medical benefits." The union,...

Stagflation Fears Spur Measured Rate Hike

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve, caught between a sudden economic slowdown and heightened worries about inflation, decided to nudge a key interest rate up by another quarter-point on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT The...

Newspaper Circulation Drops 1.9 Percent in Last Six Months - from TBO.com

"Circulation fell broadly at major newspapers in the six-month period ending in March as the industry struggled with the impact of do-not-call rules, competition from other media and the migration of readers...

Traditional media eagerly eying blogs to boost revenues, profile (AFP)

AFP - Traditional media such as newspapers and radios are casting an increasingly covetous eye over the growing number of Internet blogs, hoping to cash in on a slice of the action.

Saudis Lock Up Christians

0 Christians Arrested in Saudi Arabia for Religious Activity

MSNBC jumps on the Blogs are bad for kiddies bandwagon

The luddites behind the blogs are bad campaign starting to emerge in middle America have managed to enlist the services of MSNBC with a new article targeting blogs titled “Kids, blogs and too much information“. The story quotes a number of do-gooders, including a Mary...

Pentagon Shows Flag-Draped Coffin Photos (AP)

AP - The Pentagon, under pressure from open-government advocates, released hundreds of images Thursday of flag-draped coffins of American soldiers.

Photos of War Dead Released by Pentagon (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Reversing a policy under fire, the Pentagon released photographs Thursday of flag-draped caskets bearing American soldiers killed in combat.

Italy and U.S. Disagree on Agent's Death (AP)

AP - Italy and the United States said Friday the investigation into the killing of an Italian agent by U.S. forces in Iraq had ended but they failed to fully agree on the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

Homeland Security Plans To Deploy Internal Border Control System

To the Department of Homeland Security, you are no longer an American, you are a potential terrorist. Soon, anyone who books a flight on any airline in the United States will have a dossier opened-up on them. ...

Experts: Smallpox could be sent in mail

WASHINGTON -- The anthrax letter attacks in 2001 are not the first time an infectious agent has been spread through the mail. A recent article in a scientific journal describes two outbreaks of smallpox in 1901...

Bush to Tell Saudis Oil Prices Will Damage Markets (Reuters)

Reuters - President Bush on Monday said he would tell Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah that high oil prices will damage markets and will discuss the kingdom's oil production capacity with the Saudi leader.

White House Cockblocks Kerry-Supporting Telecom Execs from Conference : Gizmodo

Time is reporting that the Bush Administration blocked representatives from Nokia and Qualcomm, among others, from attending the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meetings because the representatives had...

Housing Experts Wary of Bubble Fatigue - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bubble or not, the U.S. housing market has stayed afloat at a high altitude for the past two years. ADVERTISEMENT So what do experts look for as the first signs of fatigue in a frothy housing...

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