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,...
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.
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"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...
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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.
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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...
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Reversing a policy under fire, the Pentagon released photographs Thursday of flag-draped caskets bearing American soldiers killed in combat.
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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.
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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. ...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bubble or not, the U.S. housing market has stayed afloat at a high altitude for the past two years.
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So what do experts look for as the first signs of fatigue in a frothy housing...
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