SANTIAGO, Chile – Chileans directly involved in saving 33 trapped miners last year rejected claims on Monday that the men seriously considered suicide and cannibalism, or that the government fooled the world by transmitting previously videotaped scenes to cover up a potential disaster during the rescue. Reinaldo Sepulveda, who directed the live television feed that [...]
NORTH BEND, ORE. – A Certified Public Accountant, who’s not your basic bean counter, told local residents to be ready for IRS tax audits. After years of laying dormant, we’re told the IRS is getting serious. Local CPA Michael Gordon spoke to community members at Wednesday’s Business Connection luncheon at the Mill Casino. He says, [...]
Below the radar of public opinion, Mexico has started to assemble the type of biometric national identity database that could be used to document names for a North American Trusted Traveler border pass card, a plan already being developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for Mexican citizens. It apparently would be similar to [...]
TEHRAN – Violent protests have erupted in Iran, Yemen and Bahrain as the revolutionary fervor unleashed by the toppling of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ripples across the Middle East, propelling people onto the streets to demand change from a spectrum of autocratic regimes. In the tiny island kingdom of Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s [...]
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Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s recent visit to the U.S.-Mexican border was less than admirable, according to many law enforcement commanders. She accused them and others of exaggerating the danger and violence within border states such as Arizona, California and New Mexico. However, in light of the recent news that three teenagers were shot [...]
Robert James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told a break-out session of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., that America needs to stop being so politically correct and realize it is “at war” with those who would spread Islamic, or Shariah, law. “We have to understand that we are in [...]
(AP) – President Obama projects that the gross federal debt will top $15 trillion this year, officially equalling the size of the entire U.S. economy, and will jump to nearly $21 trillion in five years’ time. Amid the other staggering numbers in the budget Mr. Obama sent to Congress on Monday, the debt stands out [...]
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is seeking an additional $53 billion to support railway, road and runway projects—including $54 million for airport body scanners—as part of his 2012 budget proposal. The plan, which needs congressional approval, requests boosting the Transportation Department’s budget to $122 billion from the $69 billion it got in fiscal 2010. Congress never approved [...]
PORTLAND — A 4.3 earthquake hit the Mt. St. Helens area about 10:35 a.m. Monday, followed by two more quakes minutes later at magnitude 2.5 and 2.3. The first quake was reported initially as a 3.3 magnitude quake. USGS data on the quake The 4.3 quake happened at 10:35 a.m., about six miles north and [...]
GM will pay most hourly workers more than $4,000 each as compensation for its strong financial performance last year, said a person briefed on the bonuses. The payments come less than two years after the automaker emerged from bankruptcy protection with the help of a huge government bailout. They’re more than double the previous record [...]
Republicans in the Senate and House are ripping President Obama’s budget proposals, with Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) calling them “unserious” and “irresponsible.” “This is not an ‘I got the message’ budget,” McConnell said in a floor speech. “It’s unserious and it’s irresponsible.” Earlier on Monday, House Republicans also gave Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget [...]
WASHINGTON – President Obama, pivoting at midterm from costly economic stimulus measures to deficit reduction, on Monday released a fiscal year 2012 budget that projects an annual deficit of more than $1 trillion before government shortfalls decline to “sustainable” levels for the rest of the decade. Still, annual deficits through fiscal year 2021 will add [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two-time presidential candidate John Edwards has testified under oath in a lawsuit over a videotape that purportedly depicts him in a sexual encounter, an attorney for a former Edwards aide said. Robert Elliot said Edwards was deposed last week as part of a dispute between former Edwards aide Andrew Young and [...]
President Obama will roll out a $3.7 trillion budget blueprint Monday that would trim or terminate more than 200 federal programs next year and make key investments in education, transportation and research in a bid to boost the nation’s economy and reduce record budget deficits. Senior administration officials cast the document as a responsible alternative [...]
Japan’s economy shrank slightly in the final quarter of 2010 but analysts expect a recovery this year as stronger exports to China and other parts of fast-growing Asia offset persistently weak domestic demand. The data confirmed Japan lost its place to China last year as the world’s second-largest economy and highlighted Tokyo’s increasing reliance on [...]
