Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else — and so on and so on until he had a house? After a cross-continental trading …
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MOSCOW – An executive recently assigned to saving Yukos, Russia’s former biggest oil producer, from bankruptcy has been arrested on charges of embezzlement and money-laundering, prosecutors said Thursday. Vasily Aleksanian was being interrogated by prosecutors, a spokeswoman for the general prosecutor’s office said. Charges officially were filed against him, his …
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This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” March 31, 2006, that was edited for clarity. DAVID ASMAN, GUEST HOST: Republicans had not controlled the House of Representatives for over 40 years. But Newt Gingrich and his Contract With America changed it all in 1994. Now the …
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EUGENE, Ore. – Two people who have admitted helping in the $12 million firebombing of a Vail, Colo., ski resort as part of an ecoterrorism campaign formally pleaded guilty Thursday to federal arson charges. Chelsea Dawn Gerlach and Stanilas Gregory Meyerhoff, both 29, had already pleaded guilty to some of …
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NEW ORLEANS – A grand jury investigation into deaths at a hospital during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will not begin for at least a month. Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan said Thursday it would take that long for the coroner’s office to present its findings, including autopsy …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Israeli army began handing over positions to the U.N. early Thursday, stepping up its withdrawal from southern Lebanon after the Lebanese government agreed to deploy troops near Israel’s border for the first time in nearly 40 years. The Lebanese Cabinet decision fell short of agreement on …
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NEW YORK – Crude oil prices slipped Tuesday after Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said extra supplies can replace oil lost from the shutdown of a major Alaskan pipeline owned by BP PLC (BP). The Energy Information Administration, the government’s energy statistics arm, said in its short-term energy outlook earlier in …
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A new report from Symantec (SYMC) security researchers contends that Microsoft’s (MSFT) much-awaited Vista operating system could harbor a range of vulnerabilities that would make it less secure than previous iterations of Windows. According to research published July 18 by Symantec, in Cupertino, Calif., a number of Vista’s software components, …
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This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” July 26, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Al Qaeda and Hezbollah have a few things in common. They’re both Muslim terror networks that hate America and hate Israel even more. But now that …
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BEIJING – A giant panda in southwest China has given birth to a pair of twins, state media said, the latest additions in a baby boom for the endangered animals. Ya Ya, who lives in the Chongqing Zoo, delivered the babies about an hour apart early Tuesday, China News Service …
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