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Fort Hood Victims: Breaking News UPDATES On Shooting Fallout

Posted 11.09.2009 | Home


Scroll down for the latest news listed chronologically. Live updates via Twitter are HERE. See previous days' updates HERE Monday, 1:20 a.m. EST: Fo...

L.A.-Area Real Estate Agents Are Holding Open Mansions

latimes.com | Lauren Beale | Posted 11.05.2009 | Los Angeles


For Florence Mattar, each open house has a routine. She drives around the neighborhood placing signs, brings in fresh flowers, stocks the refrigerator...

UN General Assembly: Britain Rules Out Formal Meeting With Gaddafi

AFP | 2 Hrs 55 Mins Ago | Posted 11.21.2009 | World


LONDON (AFP) Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not hold a formal meeting with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi at this week's UN General Assembly, his offi...

Google Better Than Bing, Yahoo Study Finds

InformationWeek | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology


A group of 1,100 software testers has rated Google the best search engine in terms of accuracy, speed, and relevance. ...

Marc Jacobs To Marry This Weekend

New York Post | Posted 09.20.2009 | Style


LOUIS Vuitton designer Marc Jacobs (above) is planning to marry his boyfriend in Provincetown, Mass., this weekend....

Brooklyn: The Bed Bug Borough

BrickUnderground | BrickUnderground | Posted 09.04.2009 | New York


The recent news that a Manhattan co-op spent $250,000 battling bed bugs made us wonder if buildings in some NYC neighborhoods were statistically more ...

Belfast: Romanians Leave After Racist Attacks

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2009 | World


Almost 100 Romanians are fleeing Belfast as violence targeting the migrant community continues, it was reported today by the Irish Times. Last week s...

Stocks jump after 5 days of heavy selling

AP | SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Stocks broke a five-day losing streak Wednesday as hope spread that China and the U.S. are taking convincing action to restart their ...

Kirsten Gillibrand, New York's New Democratic Senator, Says She Keeps 2 Rifles Under Her Bed

newsday.com | TOM BRUNE | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics


New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who argues her pro-gun stance aims to protect hunters' rights and the Second Amendment, last week said she and her h...

Rahm Emanuel On Gregg Withdrawal: Obama Disappointed But 'Not Hard Feelings'

Washington Post | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics


Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told reporters this afternoon that the president is disappointed by Judd Gregg's decision to withdraw but that there...

Lost U.S. Weapons May Be Going To Taliban, GAO Says

washingtonpost.com | Joby Warrick and R. Jeffrey Smith | Posted 03.14.2009 | World


Tens of thousands of assault rifles and other firearms in Afghanistan are at risk of being stolen because U.S. officials have lost track of them, acco...

Jamie Dimon, Chase CEO, Fires Back At Obama

bloomberg.com | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business


JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said it's "unfair" for politicians to criticize Wall Street pay without differentiating compe...

Citigroup May Book $10 Billion Gain From Morgan Stanley Deal

bloomberg.com | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business


Citigroup Inc. may book a gain of as much as $10 billion by forming a brokerage venture with Morgan Stanley, helping to replenish capital depleted by ...

Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo Not Amused By Facebook Prank

Guardian.co.uk | Matthew Weaver | Posted 02.02.2009 | World


There are hundreds of George Bushes, scores of Fidel Castros, and dozens of Hugo Chavezes, all with prank profiles on the social networking website Fa...

The Bailout Isn't Being Policed Properly: Government Accountability Office

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER and ELLEN SIMON | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The latest evidence of a deepening recession that's already the longest in a quarter-century came Wednesday in a pair of reports th...

UBS Clients Seek Amnesty On U.S. Taxes

Wall Street Journal | CARRICK MOLLENKAMP in Zurich and EVAN PEREZ in Washington, D.C. | Posted 12.24.2008 | Business


Wealthy clients of Swiss bank UBS AG are coming forward to make amends with tax authorities, in a sign that U.S. efforts to battle offshore tax evasio...