Wasington Times: ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago. It [...]
New York Times: SACRAMENTO — Dr. Alan Shatzel’s pager beeped at 9 on a Saturday morning. A man had suffered a stroke, and someone had to decide, quickly, whether to give him an anticlotting drug that could mean the difference between life and death. Dr. Shatzel, a neurologist, hustled not to the emergency room where [...]
Arizona Republic: A year and a half after it began, the federal government’s loan-modification program is helping less than half the homeowners facing foreclosure than hoped. Of the Phoenix-area borrowers who sought lower monthly payments through the Home Affordable Mortgage Program in April, more than half, about 10,000, left the program by the end of [...]
L.A. Times: The U.S. economy will eventually rebound from the Great Recession. Millions of American workers will not. What some economists now project — and policymakers are loath to admit — is that the U.S. unemployment rate, which stood at 9.6% in August, could remain elevated for years to come. The nation’s job deficit is [...]
The Hill: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on ABC’s This Week restated his belief that the West is locked in a generational struggle with radical Islam. He warned that the public has yet to grasp what that means, even though he declined to criticize President Obama’s decision to set a timeline for the war [...]
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Politico: House Democrats are making health care reform an election year issue — by running against it.
KABUL — At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan’s capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to a Sunday Times investigation. Afghan intelligence and Taliban sources have told the newspaper that the firms, set up in the past six months, provide cash for a network of district [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — As part of his pre-election push to spur the slumping economy and his party, President Obama this week will ask Congress to increase and permanently extend a popular but costly tax credit for businesses’ research expenses, and to pay for it by closing other corporate tax breaks, according to administration [...]
Multichannel News: The components necessary to run Google TV — the Internet giant’s platform designed to merge Web searches and YouTube content into a regular part of watching television — could add as much as $300 to the retail price of a TV, according to one industry executive’s analysis. Basically, Google TV requires the equivalent [...]
Politico: As President Barack Obama formally declared an end to combat operations in Iraq this week, the anti-war movement that helped sweep him into office — and that worked for seven years to bring U.S. troops home — finds itself struggling for survival. Several factors — war fatigue; a deep, lingering recession; and the presence [...]
