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| Task force to probe recent security failures
January 8, 2010 at 8:07 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former top CIA official John McLaughlin was named on Friday to head a task force to examine why the United States failed to prevent the December 25 airplane attack and the November shootings at Fort Hood and to make recommendations for reform. |
| UK police arrest 3 passengers on plane at Heathrow
January 8, 2010 at 8:03 pm
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| LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested three passengers on a Dubai-bound Emirates airliner on the ground at London's Heathrow airport on Friday, after verbal threats were made before the take off, police said. |
| Not guilty plea entered for Nigerian bomb suspect
January 8, 2010 at 8:01 pm
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| DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge entered a not guilty plea on Friday on behalf of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused in the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airplane that prompted a sweeping review of U.S. security procedures. |
| UBS whistleblower in prison, court rules on files
January 8, 2010 at 7:54 pm
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| ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief whistleblower in the UBS AG tax secrecy probe entered prison to serve a sentence he considered unfair, hours after a Swiss court ruled the bank should not have been forced to turn over client files to government investigators. |
| Employers slash jobs in Dec, pressuring Obama
January 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut 85,000 jobs in December, confounding expectations the labor market was finally stabilizing and piling pressure on President Barack Obama to spur job growth. |
| Schwarzenegger submits "draconian" California budget
January 8, 2010 at 7:17 pm
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| SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed "draconian" spending cuts in his new state budget on Friday to help close a crippling shortfall of nearly $20 billion and warned new cash shortages loomed. |
| Obama awards $2.3 billion clean energy tax credits
January 8, 2010 at 6:57 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a $2.3 billion tax credit on Friday to boost jobs by promoting clean energy, as new data showed the country's unemployment rate remained stuck in the double digits. |
| Vice President Joe Biden's mother dies at 92
January 8, 2010 at 5:27 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's mother, Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Finnegan Biden, died on Friday at the family's home in Wilmington, Delaware, the vice president said in a statement. She was 92. |
| U.S. pushes Sudan on election preparations
January 8, 2010 at 2:48 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan's leaders must redouble efforts to guarantee fair elections or risk plunging the giant African nation back into chaos and violence, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. |
| UBS whistleblower Birkenfeld begins prison term
January 8, 2010 at 2:43 pm
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| MINERSVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS AG banker who became the whistleblower in the U.S. government's tax probe of the Swiss bank, on Friday began a 40-month prison term that he had sought to reduce and delay. |
| Obama awards $2.3 bln clean energy tax credits
January 8, 2010 at 2:41 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will unveil a $2.3 billion tax credit on Friday to boost jobs by promoting clean energy, as fresh data showed that the country's unemployment remains stuck in the double digits. |
| Harsh winter hits Yemenis fleeing conflict: ICRC
January 8, 2010 at 2:37 pm
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| GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemeni civilians fleeing a civil conflict in the north face harsh winter conditions that are increasing their misery, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday. |
| California governor seeks permanent state pay cuts
January 8, 2010 at 12:17 pm
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| OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose replacing furloughs of state workers with permanent pay cuts and increased retirement contributions from workers when he unveils his fiscal 2011 budget later Friday, his spokesman said. |
| Frigid U.S. Midwest could see more snow
January 8, 2010 at 11:26 am
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| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blowing snow and frigid temperatures have left the U.S. Midwest in a deep freeze for most of the new year, with the possibility of more wicked weather next week, a forecaster said Friday. |
| Two more arrested in suspected New York bomb plot
January 8, 2010 at 11:12 am
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal authorities arrested two men on Friday in connection with the case of an Afghan-born man accused of plotting a bombing attack in New York City on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. |
| U.S. senators defend Pakistan drone attacks
January 8, 2010 at 7:23 am
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| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. senators on Friday defended American drone aircraft strikes in ally Pakistan, an issue likely to become more volatile if Washington intensifies the attacks to hunt down enemies after the bombing of CIA agents in Afghanistan. |
| Karzai: Afghan corruption "blown out of proportion"
January 8, 2010 at 3:30 am
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| KABUL (Reuters) - A defiant Afghan President Hamid Karzai defended his record on corruption in an interview broadcast on Friday, saying the issue that has damaged his reputation had been "blown out of proportion" by Western media. | | |
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