WASHINGTON – A subtext of Chinese President Hu Jintao‘s visit to the White House is the growing U.S.-China military competition. As China’s defense spending surges, the Pentagon is pursuing a strategy of strengthening its forces in the Asia-Pacific region as a hedge against the potential emergence of a hostile China. …
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RAMADI, Iraq – A car apparently driven by a suicide bomber exploded Monday in front of a U.S. observation post in central Iraq, sending up a huge fireball and damaging buildings and cars on a main road. There were no reports of U.S. casualties. The front end and two wheels …
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TIJUANA, Mexico – A U.S. executive abducted in this violent Mexico-U.S. border city escaped Friday after his kidnappers dozed off, officials said. Yong Hak Kim, 53, a top administrator of Amex Manufacturing in eastern Tijuana, was seized as he drove to his business early Thursday. About 24 hours later, he …
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Rescuers on Monday temporarily suspended a search for a helicopter with seven people aboard that disappeared in rugged mountains along the Afghan-Pakistan border, officials said. Contact with the Mi-8 transport chopper was lost Saturday after it took off from the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. It had …
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ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. – Check out Lee Eisenberg’s new book, “The Number,” America’s newest retirement-planning bible by the country’s latest guru of pop personal finance. You’ll open it with great anticipation, hoping, almost screaming out loud: “Yes, yes, finally I’ll find out MY number, how much I need to retire …
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CHICAGO – A consumer group wants to keep Tony the Tiger from promoting sugary cereals on the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon show, or anywhere else kids are watching. The Center for Science in the Public Interest Wednesday announced legal action to try to stop the Kellogg Co. (K), maker of cereals …
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This is a partial transcript from “The Beltway Boys”, December 31, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The Beltway Boys” Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 and 6 a.m. EST. FRED BARNES, CO-HOST: Our next three awards are the biggies. The Winner of the Year: …
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LOS ANGELES – A NASA spacecraft built to explore two of the solar system’s largest asteroids won’t launch this year because the space agency is dealing with cost overruns and technical issues in the project. The planned summer launch of the Dawn spacecraft has been indefinitely postponed, said Andrew Dantzler, …
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NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rose Wednesday as brokerages raised their price targets on Apple Computer Inc., helping the Nasdaq to its seventh straight gain, and money management firms gained on analysts’ positive comments. The Dow and S&P 500 indexes have closed up for six of the seven trading days …
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BAD REICHENHALL, Germany – Rescue workers recovered three more bodies Wednesday from a collapsed skating rink in southern Germany, raising the death toll to 14. Crews still searched for a missing person, although they reported no signs of life in the snow-covered rubble. The bodies of two boys and a …
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