Los Angeles Times
Chrysler quick sale will test bankruptcy limitsReuters - Caroline HumerBy Caroline Humer - Analysis NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chrysler llc's plan to emerge from bankruptcy hinges on an increasingly popular restructuring move — the early sale of core assets into a separate company — and that move, while controversial, …Video: Chrysler Files for Bankruptcy Protection [...]
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Souter appears set to leave high courtBoston Globe - Peter S. Canellos, Milton J. Valencia, Lisa WangsnessBy Peter S. Canellos and Milton J. Valencia WASHINGTON - David Hackett Souter, the intensely private New Hampshire jurist who emerged on the Supreme Court as a crucial defender of abortion rights and the separation of church and state, is retiring from [...]
Straits Times
Souter appears set to leave high courtBoston Globe - Peter S. Canellos, Milton J. Valencia, Lisa WangsnessBy Peter S. Canellos and Milton J. Valencia WASHINGTON - David Hackett Souter, the intensely private New Hampshire jurist who emerged on the Supreme Court as a crucial defender of abortion rights and the separation of church and state, is retiring from [...]
BBC News
S Lanka admits bombing 'safe zone'Aljazeera.netThe Sri Lanka government has admitted carrying out air strikes in the so-called no-fire zone in the country's northeast where the army is battling Tamil separatists.Video: LTTE defector accuses group of civilian murder - 30 Apr 09 Al JazeeraSri Lanka army website hacked: defence ministry AFPBloomberg - guardian.co.uk - Hindu - BBC [...]
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Swine Flu Reaches 11 Countries, 250 Cases ConfirmedBloomberg - Tom RandallBy Tom Randall May 1 (Bloomberg) — Swine flu reached 11 countries, as governments closed schools, planned for vaccine production and tapped emergency stockpiles of antiviral medicine.Video: NM awaits H1N1 'swine' flu test kits KRQE.comMexico gets brighter picture of swine flu spread ReutersWall Street Journal - BBC [...]
BBC News
Obama Says Chrysler Holdout Lenders Speculated on US BailoutBloombergBy Julianna Goldman and Linda Sandler April 30 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said Chrysler LLC lenders who turned down his buyout offers are a “small group of speculators†who forced the automaker into bankruptcy.Video: Auto giant driven into bankruptcy WIVBComment by Gary Chaison Prof. [...]
Reuters
White House issues advisory after Obama Mexico tripReuters(Politico) — The White House is issuing a health advisory outlining "protective measures" for anyone who traveled on President Barack Obama's trip to Mexico, after a member of the US delegation came down with flu-like symptoms - and tests on his …White House aide's family likely has swine [...]
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The Lenders Obama Decided to BlameNew York TimesBy ZACHERY KOUWE Peter A. Weinberg and Joseph R. Perella are part of a band of Wall Street renegades - “a small group of speculators,†President Obama called them Thursday - who helped bankrupt Chrysler.Video: Auto giant driven into bankruptcy WIVBComment by Gary Chaison Prof. of Industrial Relations, Clark [...]
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Former ‘Enemy Combatant' Pleads Guilty in Ill.New York TimesBy JOHN SCHWARTZ During the nearly six years that Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri spent in isolation in a Navy brig as the last enemy combatant held on United States soil, he denied the government's charges that he was a sleeper agent for Al Qaeda, …Alleged [...]
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Former ‘Enemy Combatant' Pleads Guilty in Ill.New York TimesBy JOHN SCHWARTZ During the nearly six years that Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri spent in isolation in a Navy brig as the last enemy combatant held on United States soil, he denied the government's charges that he was a sleeper agent for Al Qaeda, …Alleged [...]