Nation and World
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Boeing to expand business in India
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW DELHI -- Boeing Co. has tentatively agreed to send as much as $1 billion in aerospace manufacturing work to state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. in India over the ...
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New Orleans protest gets ugly
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS -- Despite occasionally violent protests outside, the city council voted Thursday in favor of demolishing some 4,500 public housing units, a milestone in the...
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CIA official subpoenaed
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena Thursday for Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA official who directed that secret interrogation videotapes o...
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Giuliani ends stay in hospital
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was released from a St. Louis hospital Thursday after spending the night to undergo tests for flu-like sympt...
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Discover Financial losses stem from overseas arm
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Discover Financial Services LLC posted a loss in its fiscal fourth quarter after taking a $391 million charge because of its struggling card business in Grea...
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Briefs: India's Tata may win Land Rover bidDec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. could name Indian automaker Tata Motors Ltd. a "preferred bidder" for its Jaguar and Land Rover units as early as Friday, two people briefed on...
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Man lost in mountains for 3 days with kids says he overcame fear with faith
Dec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - PARADISE, Calif. -- A man who was lost in the mountains along with his three children for three days during a snowstorm said he was terrified they wouldn't make it out a...
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Putin is Time's 'Person of the Year'
Dec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" on Wednesday for imposing stability that restored Russia as a world power. Th...
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Budget battle over but not the war
Dec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- It's not the end of the bickering between Democrats and President Bush over Iraq and the budget, just a truce. The Democratic-controlled Congress passed a ...
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Push for freedom for 3 convicted in slaying of three Arkansas boys
Dec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An effort to free three young men convicted in the lurid 1993 slayings of three 8-year-old boys is gathering speed, with rock stars and other celebr...