National news
- Harvard leader faces difficult choices
- July 6, 2009
- Drew Gilpin Faust started as Harvard’s president when the university’s prosperity seemed limitless.
- Sotomayor proving resilient to GOP’s efforts at criticism
- July 6, 2009
- A week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she’s not fit to serve.
- Obama seeks new start with Russia
- July 6, 2009
- Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry today, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.
- Bankruptcies low in states that don’t seize wages
- July 6, 2009
- States that allow debt collectors to seize consumers’ wages have sharply higher bankruptcy rates than neighboring states that prohibit or strictly limit the practice, an Associated Press analysis has found.
- Fireworks accidents result in 5 deaths
- July 6, 2009
- Five people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, four of them by a single blast that rocked Ocracoke, N.C., a remote village on the Outer Banks.
- Obama plan could trim back financial powerhouses
- July 6, 2009
- They are the biggest of the big — the Citigroups, the Goldman Sachses, the AIGs and other financial behemoths. The Obama administration doesn’t want so many around anymore.
- Obama warns of ‘difficult days’ for Iraq
- July 5, 2009
- President Barack Obama warned on Saturday “there will be difficult days ahead” in Iraq and said the U.S. will remain a strong partner to Iraq for its security.
World news
- From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS
- July 6, 2009
- When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin.
- British-Greek reporter held for weeks freed, Iran says
- July 6, 2009
- Iran said Sunday it has released a British-Greek journalist detained for two weeks during its postelection crackdown as opposition forces pressing their claims of fraud called for parliament to dismiss President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- Report: Launches may have included new Scud
- July 6, 2009
- A barrage of ballistic missiles that North Korea test-fired over the weekend may have included a new type of a Scud with an extended range and improved accuracy that poses a threat to Japan, a South Korean newspaper reported today.
- Old ruling party gains in midterm election
- July 6, 2009
- The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades appeared to be making a historic comeback in Sunday’s midterm congressional elections, scoring big with voters for the first time since it lost the presidency in 2000.
- Muslim ethnic group riots; at least 4 die
- July 6, 2009
- Nearly 1,000 protesters from a Muslim ethnic group rioted in China’s far west, overturning barricades, attacking bystanders and clashing with police in violence that killed at least four people, including a policeman, state media and witnesses said.
- Spy chief’s family details posted on Web
- July 6, 2009
- He’s the spy who came in from the beach.
- Ex-president’s plane circles Honduran runway, can’t land
- July 6, 2009
- Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the main Honduras airport Sunday because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers, some of them clashing with a crowd of thousands outside
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