WASHINGTON – Crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House on Saturday, shouting “Peace now” in the largest anti-war protest in the nation’s capital since the U.S. invasion. The rally stretched through the day and into the night, a marathon of music, speechmaking and dissent on …
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NEW YORK – Google Inc. (GOOG), the world’s most popular Internet search engine, on Wednesday is set to begin a stock sale that could net more than $4 billion in proceeds, according to data provider Dealogic (search). Google went public in August 2004 and announced the follow-on offering in a …
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WASHINGTON – The government asked a federal appeals court Friday to rescind a district judge’s plan requiring the Interior Department (search) to account for billions of dollars in lost royalties American Indians say they are owed. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth (search) ordered the accounting in 2003 as part of …
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This is a partial transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” September 5, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “Hannity & Colmes” weeknights at 9 p.m. ET! SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: For the first time in more than 30 years there are two vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court. President Bush …
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NEW ORLEANS – An astonishing phenomenon, the drowning of New Orleans (search), leads to a mind-boggling question: How to rebuild a city? Some are already considering the challenge. Officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (search) estimate it will be weeks before all the water that flowed into the …
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If you’re a homeowner saddled with debt (and we’re talking about bad, high-interest debt like the kind you pile up on credit cards) then Alan Greenspan has offered you an escape route. How so? Well, while credit-card interest rates have become increasingly immune to Fed rate cuts (with the average …
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WASHINGTON – More than 80 percent of U.S. manufacturers say they cannot find enough qualified workers to meet customer demands, according to an industry study released Tuesday. While some 3.4 million factory jobs have been lost since 1998, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) said employers are now struggling to …
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – When U.S. soldiers need to penetrate a tank’s armor from a mile away, they count on a weapon that evolved from the garage tinkering of a former wedding photographer. The .50-caliber rifle created by Ronnie Barrett and sold by his company, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc., is the …
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GENEVA – Polio has been eradicated from ten of 18 African nations where the disease was reintroduced after Nigeria boycotted a vaccine. The UN’s World Health Organization calls the progress a major boost to a global efforts to rid the world of the polio. In 2003, hard-line Islamic clerics in …
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No, your holiday binge drinking hasn’t gotten that out of control so early — that Christmas tree really is upside down. Retailers are rolling out inverted trees as a hot new novelty item this holiday season. Claiming the new model “Leaves more room on the floor for gifts,” Target offers …
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