The New York hotel maid who accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has made a public appearance in New York, while her lawyer has promised a civil suit against her alleged attacker. Nafissatou Diallo, an immigrant to the United States from Guinea, told a crowd Thursday that the events of […]
US Transportation Secretary Urges End to FAA Shutdown
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 2:20 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has called on Congress to pass a funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration that would put some 74,000 people back to work. The agency has been partially shut down since Saturday, after lawmakers failed to agree on an extension of its authority to operate. Some 4,000 FAA employees have […]
US Transportation Secretary Urges End to FAA Shutdown
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 1:15 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has called on Congress to pass a funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration that would put some 74,000 people back to work. The agency has been partially shut down since Saturday, after lawmakers failed to agree on an extension of the agency’s authority to operate. Some 4,000 FAA employees […]
US Soldier Arrested Near Fort Hood
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 12:40 pm (UTC-5)
Police in the southern state of Texas have arrested a U.S. soldier after finding possible bomb-making material in a motel room near Fort Hood. An FBI spokesman said the soldier, 21-year-old Nasser Jason Abdo, was taken into custody Wednesday in Killeen, Texas, after authorities got a tip about a suspicious individual. The FBI said Thursday […]
US Congress Set To Vote On Debt Issue
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 12:30 pm (UTC-5)
The U.S. House of Representatives is to vote Thursday on a plan by Republican House Speaker John Boehner to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending. Boehner’s plan has attracted criticism from the ultra-conservative Tea Party faction of the Republican party, and opposition from Democrats. Conservatives say it cuts too little spending, Democrats complain Boehner’s […]
New US Jobless Benefit Claims Fall to 16-Week Low
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
Applications for jobless benefits dropped in the U.S. last week to their lowest level since early April, a sign the nation’s labor market may be starting to improve. The U.S. government reported Thursday that the number of first-time benefit claims fell by 24,000 from the previous week to 398,000, the first time in 16 weeks […]
Arson Blamed for Southern California Wildfire
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 10:55 am (UTC-5)
A wildfire that has consumed almost 6,000 hectares of rugged land in the western U.S. state of California is being blamed on arson. Fire officials in the southern part of the state refused to release any additional information about the cause of the blaze, which started July 21 on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation. More […]
Tropical Storm Advances on Gulf of Mexico
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
Tropical Storm Don is churning through the Gulf of Mexico, moving toward the coast of the southern U.S. state of Texas. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm is moving west-northwest at about 17 kilometers per hour with sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour. Forecasters also say Don could grow stronger […]
US Lawmakers Voting on Republican Debt Plan
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 9:45 am (UTC-5)
The U.S. House of Represenatives is to vote Thursday on a plan by Republican House Speaker John Boehner to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending. Boehner’s plan has attracted criticism from the ultra-conservative Tea Party faction of the Republican party, and opposition from Democrats. Conservatives say it cuts too little spending, Democrats complain Boehner’s […]
New US Jobless Benefit Claims Fall to 16-Week Low
Posted July 28th, 2011 at 9:40 am (UTC-5)
Applications for jobless benefits dropped in the U.S. last week to their lowest level since early April, a sign the nation’s labor market may be starting to improve. The U.S. government reported Thursday that the number of first-time benefit claims fell by 24,000 from the previous week to 398,000, the first time in 16 weeks […]
