Holiday shopping, at least online, off to encouraging start
NEW YORK — Holiday shopping held steady through the Thanksgiving weekend after retailers saw a huge crowd of bargain shoppers on Black Friday buying discounted flat-panel TVs and fleece jackets. [More]
By Anne D’innocenzio
Associated Press | November 29
Defiant Iran plans 10 uranium enrichment sites
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran approved plans today to build 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of U.N. demands it halt enrichment and a move that is likely to significantly heighten tensions... [More]
Associated Press | November 29
Associated Press |
Bin Laden was ‘within our grasp,’ panel says.
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate... [More]
By Calvin Woodward
Associated Press | November 29
Dario Lopez-Mills / Associated Press |
Afghanistan is a different kind of war
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan — Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world. [More]
By Denis Gray
Associated Press | November 29
Expiring health subsidy imperils laid-off workers
WASHINGTON — Just before Don Hall and his family left town for Thanksgiving, the laid-off manufacturing supervisor from Castalia, Ohio, wrote a $763.81 check to his health insurance company for his December payment. [More]
McClatchy Newspapers | November 29
3 Americans die in crash of Boeing MD-11
SHANGHAI — A Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane crashed in flames during takeoff from Shanghai’s main airport Saturday, killing three American crew members and injuring four others on board. [More]
Associated Press | November 29
New nuclear-base commander pushes for perfection
MINOT, N.D. — The sign over the main gate at Minot Air Force Base brags, “Only the Best Come North.” [More]
Associated Press | November 29
Samantha Appleton / The White House |
White House party crashers’ life not all glitz
WASHINGTON — Before Tareq and Michaele Salahi catapulted to international notoriety as possible White House gate-crashers this week, the Virginia socialites had their pictures taken with President Obama during his inauguration, Prince Charles... [More]
The Washington Post | November 29
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