RAINIER, Ore. – Demolition crews on Sunday destroyed the 499-foot cooling tower at a defunct commercial nuclear power plant. With a rumble, the tower leaned to the side and collapsed upon itself — leaving a cloud of dust and multi-ton pile of rubble. It took less than 10 seconds and …
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WASHINGTON – Published reports revealing a secret government program that tracks money moving in and out of the United States have endangered Americans and undermines the War on Terror, President Bush said Monday. “The disclosure of this program is disgraceful,” Bush said during a question and answer session with reporters …
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Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, new studies show. Years …
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GENEVA – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend a U.N. anti-racism conference starting in Geneva next week, the United Nations said Tuesday. The addition of Ahmadinejad to the speakers adds to fears by some Western countries that the conference could be diverted by Muslim countries into a verbal attack on …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran‘s foreign minister rejected the principle of a European package that would require Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment in exchange for support to a civilian nuclear program, state-run television reported Tuesday. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tehran would, however, welcome a solution that recognized the Islamic republic’s …
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s defense minister said Tuesday that there are no immediate plans to sell U.S.-made fighter jets despite a dispute over replacement parts — backing away from one general’s statement that the planes could go to Iran. Defense Minister Adm. Orlando Maniglia said a sale of the 21 …
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NEW YORK – Stocks rose smartly Wednesday as stronger-than-expected earnings from FedEx Corp. (FDX) and Morgan Stanley Inc. (MS) put investors’ inflation fears on the back burner. The Dow Jones industrial average gained more than 100 points. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 104.62, or 0.95 percent, to 11,079.46. Click …
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NEW YORK – Gene Simmons of the rock group Kiss has settled a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a former girlfriend who charged that he made her sound like a “sex-addicted nymphomaniac” during a documentary shown on VH1. The settlement, announced Wednesday, said the “amicable resolution” of Georgeann Walsh …
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Some people will do anything to get out of jury duty. An Ohio man spent a night in jail after claiming to be a heroin addict and a killer to avoid being chosen for jury duty in a death penalty case, the Associated Press reports. Benjamin Ratliffe stated he had …
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CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela will purchase 24 new Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets this year — and may purchase more — while his government moves forward with plans to set up factories to produce Kalashnikov assault rifles under license. Chavez said Wednesday the SU-30 jets will replace …
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