MADRID (AFP) — After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner — a woman from Spain’s soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property. Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September [...]
CNBC: The United States would be ready to support the extension of the European Financial Stability Facility via an extra commitment of money from the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday. “There are a lot of people talking about that. I think the European Commission has talked about that,” said the [...]
Washington Times: Republican senators said Wednesday they’ll block all business in the chamber until Democrats tackle the long-overdue spending bills and tax increases impending at the end of this year, raising the level of brinksmanship to new heights. In a letter signed by all 42 Republicans — including Sen. Mark Steven Kirk of Illinois, who [...]
Fox News: Republicans are balking at plans by House Democrats to hold a focused, narrow vote on tax relief for those earning less than $250,000, as the top GOP tax-writing committee member on Wednesday described the move as a charade aimed to put the GOP in a bad light after cooperative bipartisan meetings with the [...]
