General Electric said Friday that it is raising its quarterly dividend by 2 cents because of its improving financial performance, the first increase since it deeply slashed payments to shareholders last year to save cash. The company also said it would start buying its own shares again. GE will now pay 12 cents per share [...]
A lot of robbers use force. This one used the Force. A bandit decked out in a Darth Vader costume strolled into a Long Island bank yesterday – and walked out with a wad of cash. The villain looked ready for Halloween, wearing the “Star Wars” scoundrel’s signature mask and sweeping black cape. He lost some authenticity points [...]
Back in the 1980s, they were the biggest stars in Hollywood, both in terms of box-office receipts and bicep circumference. But the glory days of the brawny action heroes — Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, and the like — eventually faded. In their place, a new breed of ’90s star took over: younger, leaner, and nowhere [...]
BEIJING – China’s largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves. An official warned the spill posed a “severe threat” to sea life and water quality as China’s latest environmental crisis spread off the shores of Dalian, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a GOP filibuster safely broken, the Senate is poised to pass legislation restoring jobless benefits for millions of people unable to find work in the frail economic recovery. Wednesday’s vote is a formality after the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 60-40 Tuesday to move ahead on the bill. The measure would then go [...]
Tests On Shahzad Bomb Reveal If He Had Done It Right As Many As 1,200 People Would Have Lost Their Lives The attack would have killed hundreds, if not thousands. But he botched the job. Faisal Shahzad’s plan to blow up an SUV in Times Square would’ve caused catastrophic damage. Federal investigators who’ve tested mock-ups [...]
For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman’s chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women whose partners won’t use condoms. [...]
http://reginacalcaterra.com/blog/why_we_need_budget_reform/ By Regina on 07/06/2010 @ 02:30 PM It took more than 70 days past the legal deadline for the governor and state lawmakers to start talking seriously about passing a state budget, but, unfortunately, they haven’t yet started talking about budget reform. As angry as taxpayers should be about the state of affairs in Albany, [...]
CINCINNATI (Reuters) – Deborah Coleman lost her unemployment benefits in April, and now fears for millions of others if the Senate does not extend aid for the jobless. “It’s too late for me now,” she said, fighting back tears at the Freestore Foodbank in the low-income Over-the-Rhine district near downtown Cincinnati. “But it will be terrible [...]
PRINCETON, NJ — As Gen. David Petraeus takes charge of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the majority of Americans like him personally while at the same time viewing the conflict there as going badly for the U.S. President Obama appointed Petraeus as commander of U.S. and International Security Assistance forces in Afghanistan on June 23, shortly [...]