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Achmad Ibrahim/Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia — From Pakistan to Gaza and Lebanon, militant Islamic movements have gained ground rapidly in recent years, fanning Western fears of a consolidation of radical Muslim governments. But here in the world’s most populous Muslim nation just the...

Lee-Anne Goodman THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON–John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the 9/11 terrorists entered the United States through Canada. Just days after Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, sparked a...

Tony Van Alphen Business Reporter Chrysler and its union have broken historical pattern bargaining in the auto industry with a deal for deep worker concessions to keep the teetering company alive here. In around-the-clock, high-stakes bargaining, negotiators agreed on a deal Friday...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced a major reshaping of the Pentagon budget on Monday, with deep cuts in many traditional weapons systems but new billions of dollars for others, along with more troops and new technology to fight the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan...

The roughly $200 billion the Treasury Department has handed out to battered banks was swapped for a special class of stock that pays a 5 percent dividend (rising to 9 percent after five years.) NOTE: As of April 15, the Treasury had collected about $2.5 billion in dividend payments on its...

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the fire has gone out of President Obama’s goal of restricting the availability of firearms. “I don’t know of any plans,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, to seek an assault weapons ban from Congress. First 100 days: Assault weapons ban - The First 100 Days- msnbc.com

The following letter to President Obama illustrates the frustration felt by hardworking taxpayers: Mr. President Thank you for helping my neighbors with their mortgage payments. You know the ones down the street who in the good times refinanced their house several times and bought SUVs...

RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR Reuters DETROIT–Ford Motor Co. posted a smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss Friday amid the auto sector downturn and said it was on track to at least break even in 2011 and did not expect to seek U.S. government loans. The company also said it had burned...

Ottawa rules mom must leave Lesley Ciarula Taylor Immigration Reporter The rules say Kim Suk Yeung has to be deported, the public safety minister declared yesterday. Kim and her 8-year-old daughter Eugene, who have inspired a passionate community campaign to keep them here, will leave on a...

so I was thinking.... there has been no Great war to help the economy.... whats the difference...spend a few trillion in government contracts for the war effort or bailouts? a few less deaths. The world needs a BIG war to pull this out....history dictates this...

Rob Ferguson Queen's Park Bureau Ontario motorists will likely have until fall before it becomes illegal to use hand-held cellphones and other electronic devices like BlackBerrys and global positioning systems while at the wheel. The Legislature unanimously passed the government's law...

So this morning I am #1 in Indy area and no other CV's or Sprinters around....they call for a 170 mile 70 cent load to Findlay Ohio....Now thinking it is still early and no one around and Findlay would have left me in a bees hive or glut of vans, I refuse....crazy? BUT they called again at 2pm...

Ole and Lena lived on a big lake in Nordern Minnesoda. One day towards spring Ole asked Lena if she would walk across the lake to get him some beer. When Lena asked Ole for some money, he told her to "Yust put it on the tab". Lena crossed the ice to the general store, got the beer and...

Simple solution...if they don't stop...sink them in International waters! Katharine Houreld ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya–A Canadian and a U.S. warship pursued Somali pirates for seven hours after they attacked a Norwegian tanker in the Gulf of Aden. The chase ended when warning...

Glenn Hall Citigroup (C Quote) posted first-quarter profit of $1.6 billion versus a loss the year before, but before you celebrate you should check what kind of stock you own. If you're a preferred shareholder, say like the U.S. government, then you're in the money! If you're a common...

Robert Holmes Brace yourselves. This week, there are no mark-to-market headlines to monitor, no news on the uptick rule, and no Federal Reserve meeting (that'll be a concern going into next weekend, though). However, there are so many earnings reports in the coming week that they...

Thanks to a complicit Congress, the reins were systematically loosened on the looters of the financial industry. And they're still at it, looking for new plunder. By Jim Jubak It was no accident. The folks in power in Washington and on Wall Street want to pretend that the current global...

... no, seriously By Korbi Ghosh April 07, 12:15 AM Kal Penn "House" fans are still in shock over last night's unexplainable turn of events. At this late hour however, we are getting some answers as to why what happened actually went down. If you haven't yet seen this week's episode...