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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:47:00 -0400 - Colleen LaRose is accused of conspiring with jihadist fighters and pledging to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war. Authorities say she wanted to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims. Her trial was set for May 3.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:45:00 -0400 - Japan and a number of developing nations opposed the proposed ban, which was backed by the United States. Japan imports 80 percent of its Atlantic bluefin, which is a popular ingredient in sushi.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:08:00 -0400 - Banks weren't the only ones giving big bonuses in the boom years before the worst financial crisis in generations. The government also was handing out millions of dollars to bank regulators, rewarding "superior" work even as an avalanche of risky mortgages helped create the meltdown.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:01:54 -0400 - The Congressional Budget Office has apparently finished tallying up the cost of health overhaul and preliminary reports put the total at $940 billion over the first decade. Over the same period, the plan would reduce the federal deficit by $130 billion.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:38:00 -0400 - Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland said the health care package will also reduce the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over its first 10 years.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:32:37 -0400 - CBO releases cost estimates for health care overhaul.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:44:00 -0400 - A rise in food prices last month was offset by a drop in gasoline and other energy costs. The Labor Department's report indicates there is little sign of inflation, which enables the Federal Reserve to keep its key interest rate at a record low to help revive the economy.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:39:00 -0400 - The Labor Department says the number of newly laid-off workers requesting jobless benefits fell 5,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 457,000. That nearly matched analysts' estimates of 455,000.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:59:00 -0400 - Israel's emergency service said the rocket was fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip and killed a man in an agricultural community just north of Gaza. It was the first death from such an attack since Israel's Gaza offensive last year.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:30:00 -0400 - The chief minister of India's most populous state came from humble origins, but Mayawati, as she is known, has not been shy about displaying her wealth. Recently, the show of opulence at a political rally — where she accepted a garland made entirely of money — seems to have gone too far, even by her standards.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:24:00 -0400 - In a notable turnaround, the International Monetary Fund recently acknowledged that some developing countries might benefit from controls on capital inflows. IMF research found that countries with such regulations were better equipped to weather recent global economic crises.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0400 - A new study finds that the number of people in multigenerational households grew by 2.6 million between 2007 and 2008. The trend is fueled by young adults, but older adults are also slightly more likely to share households. Another factor is the increasingly large share of immigrants living in the U.S.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:00:00 -0400 - Banking giant Wachovia has agreed to pay $160 million to settle a federal investigation into laundering of South American drug money. The deal, announced by the U.S. attorney in Miami, said the bank had laundered the money since at least 2003 using Mexican exchange houses.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - Scientists have known that modern dogs are descended from wolves, but the specific ancestry hasn't been clear. Now, after analyzing DNA from 85 dog breeds, researchers say that Middle Eastern gray wolves are the likely predecessor of today's pooch.
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 - Dagestan is one of the most violent regions of Russia, squeezed in between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. It is known mostly for negative things: economic deprivation, violent politics and a simmering Islamist insurgency. But the people of Sulak are trying to stay out of the conflict.
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