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Fortuna couple loses son in Afghanistan
Forrest Leamon, the son of a local couple who was among the 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan last week, was remembered by his family and ...
Meet Afghanistan's model police force: inexperience, drugs and double agents
The Afghan national police has achieved a reputation for being badly trained, riddled with drug addicts and, many fear, infiltrated by secret Taliban agents.Despite the ...
Italian court convicts 23 Americans in CIA rendition case
MILAN -- An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric ...
Slain Sac State Student's Parents Stunned by Hospital Bill, Letter
SACRAMENTO, CA - The parents of a Sacramento State student beaten to death by a dorm mate last month said they were stunned to receive ...
Why did blue-chip Goldman take a walk on subprime's wild side?
IRVINE, Calif. — Goldman Sachs was one of the last Wall Street giants to enter the subprime lending world, but when it did, it quickly ...
Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag
NEW YORK — Inside the thick Goldman Sachs investment circular were the details of a secret, $2 billion deal channeled through a Caribbean tax haven. ...
Fears of a New Bubble as Cash Pours In
Concerns are mounting that efforts by governments and central banks to stoke a recovery will create a nasty side effect: asset bubbles in real-estate, stock ...
Pensions for Executives on Rise
Pensions for top executives rose an average of 19% in 2008, with more than 200 executives seeing pensions increase more than 50%, according to a ...
Single payers protest at Pelosi's office
About 50 single-payer activists and labor union members held a sit-in at House Speaker Pelosi's San Fransisco office today where 11 people were arrested, said ...
GOP congresswoman says health care bill scarier than terrorism
WASHINGTON - A Republican congresswoman said Monday on the House floor that she believes Americans have more to fear from the Democrats' health care bill ...
Suicide Toll Fuels Worry That Army Is Strained
Sixteen American soldiers killed themselves in October in the U.S. and on duty overseas, an unusually high monthly toll that is fueling concerns about the ...
Bush favours UNSC seat for India
NEW DELHI: Pitching for a greater role for India globally, former US President George W Bush today favoured its entry into the expanded UN Security ...
The Paradox of US Healthcare
For nearly two decades, Wendell Potter led a very comfortable life as a public relations health insurance executive. However, while flying on a corporate jet ...
Republican adviser faces health care's costly bite
If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, including health-care reform. ...
Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes
SAN JOSE, Calif. — When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced ...
Clinton in Pakistan encounters widespread distrust of U.S.
Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan - Every time Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to win over Pakistanis during her three-day charm offensive last week, ...
Kucinich Wants His Amendment Back
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was none too happy when House leaders stripped his single-payer provision from their $894 billion health reform proposal. Today, he’s urging ...
Kucinich: Health reform legislation ‘a bailout for insurance companies’
According to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the Democrats' health reform legislation is basically a sham. Appearing on MSNBC's The Ed Show on Friday night, the ...
How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but ...
The Pillage People
It’s as if last year’s meltdown—causing a $16 trillion bailout of the financial industry, the doubling of America’s unemployment rate and the loss of 2 ...
The Anti-War Left's Big Gun
If you think Alan Grayson was tough on Republicans over health care, wait until you hear him talk about Afghanistan. The freshman Florida congressman, who ...
Pakistan drone war takes a toll on militants -- and civilians
The Obama administration has dramatically ratcheted up the American drone warfare program in Pakistan. Since President Obama took office, U.S. drone strikes have killed about ...
BCBS plea to customers on reform hits a nerve
Maybe it was just lousy timing, but many customers of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina are ticked off at the mail they've ...
Bankers Expect Rising Bonus Pay to Break Records in Global Poll
Oct. 30 -- In Washington and on Main Street, politicians and voters are railing against Wall Street’s multi- million-dollar pay packages. In the financial world, ...
The Subprime Student Loan Racket
At the age of forty-three, Martine Leveque decided it was time to start over. For several years, she had worked in the movie business, writing ...
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