Archive for the Category ‘U.S.’

Wall Street protesters look to expand N.Y. presence (Reuters)

Wall Street protesters look to expand N.Y. presence 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - Anti-Wall Street demonstrators said on Saturday they are growing out of their lower Manhattan encampment and are exploring options to expand to other public spaces in New York City.[Read more...]

"Video vigilante" fights Oklahoma prostitution with camera (Reuters)

"Video vigilante" fights Oklahoma prostitution with camera 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - For a man who surprises prostitutes and their customers with a video camera to announce, “You’re busted, buddy,” Brian Bates is remarkably unscathed.[Read more...]

Surgeons Implant Devices They Make

Surgeons Implant Devices They Make

JACKSON, Miss.—On April 7, a 48-year-old Baptist preacher named Gary Steve Moore had spinal-fusion surgery at St. Dominic Hospital here. Hours later, he was dead. Mr. Moore had been suffering from a degenerating disk in his lower back. Two spine surgeons who later reviewed his medical records say his history of heart disease and [...]

Canadians Warm to Phoenix

Canadians Warm to Phoenix

Canadians are on a Sun Belt shopping spree. Phoenix and other warm-weather cities that have seen real-estate prices crater are newly popular among Canadians looking for second homes or investment properties, brokers and buyers say. Enlarge ImageClose Brandon Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal Real-estate agent Diane Brennan, center, shows Canadians Marc and [...]

Romney Calls for Defense Boost

Romney Calls for Defense Boost

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out a hawkish foreign policy in a speech in South Carolina on Friday, saying he would boost defense spending and expand the size of the Navy while deferring to military commanders on how long to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Many of the former Massachusetts governor’s positions will [...]

U.S.-Turkey Ties Challenged

U.S.-Turkey Ties Challenged

WASHINGTON—Escalating tensions in the Mediterranean are complicating the U.S.-Turkey alliance at a time when President Barack Obama views Ankara as central to helping the U.S. manage the Middle East’s political upheavals. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton privately has pressed Turkish officials to back off from their threats to send warships to waters around Cyprus in [...]

New Sleuths for Food Safety

New Sleuths for Food Safety

Inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration are searching fields in Colorado’s Rocky Ford region for clues as to how cantaloupes grown there this summer caused at least 100 illnesses and 18 deaths. But if a new law had been in place, they might have been there before the outbreak. The sweeping food-safety law [...]

Protests spread to more than a dozen cities (Reuters)

Protests spread to more than a dozen cities 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America on Thursday and found unlikely sympathy from a top official of one of main targets of scorn — the Federal Reserve.[Read more...]

Wall Street protests spread as Fed official sympathizes (Reuters)

Wall Street protests spread as Fed official sympathizes 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - Protests that began in New York against economic inequality spread across America on Thursday as the growing movement found unlikely support from a top official of one of its targets — the Federal Reserve.[Read more...]

Senate, House Step Up China Pressure

Senate, House Step Up China Pressure

WASHINGTON—Lawmakers from both parties took swipes at China on Thursday as the Senate voted to advance a bill to penalize countries said to be manipulating their currencies, with House members pressuring their leaders to follow suit. The currency bill would compel the Obama administration to levy tariffs and other penalties against China and other countries [...]

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