Two indicted in Minnesota on Somali terror charges

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:25:54 -0500

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Minneapolis indicted two men on Monday on charges of conspiracy and aiding terrorism overseas, according to court papers.

Obama seeks to regain initiative on healthcare

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:11:30 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A combative President Barack Obama on Monday sought to regain the initiative on overhauling the U.S. healthcare system after legislation slowed down in the Congress while he was abroad last week.

June budget gap $94.32 billion, record for June

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:06:58 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government rang up a $94.32 billion budget deficit in June, a record for the month, as the price tag for efforts to prop up the economy, banks and automakers mounted while revenues weakened.

New flu "unstoppable", WHO says, calls for vaccine

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:48:45 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying the new H1N1 virus is "unstoppable", the World Health Organization gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain on Monday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one.

U.S. judge gives fraud lawyer 20 years in prison

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:41:37 -0500

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marc Dreier, a high-profile New York lawyer who admitted to a $400 million investment fund fraud that unraveled at the same time as Bernard Madoff's huge swindle, was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Monday.

Madoff on way to federal prison: U.S. official

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:54:15 -0500

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Admitted thief Bernard Madoff was moved from his New York jail cell on Monday and was traveling to federal prison, a U.S. prison official said.

Republicans contest Obama's Supreme Court choice

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:04:02 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, promised on Monday to apply the law impartially as Republicans used the first day of her confirmation hearings to repeatedly question her objectivity.

U.S. worried about American scholar detained in Iran

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:31:46 -0500

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States called on Iran on Monday to release U.S. citizen Kian Tajbakhsh and said it was "deeply concerned" about the scholar, who was detained in Tehran last week and has previously been accused of spying.

U.S. military boss urges Iraq to settle differences

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:28:37 -0500

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - The top U.S. military commander urged rival factions in Iraq's disputed city of Kirkuk, the heart of a bitter feud over land and oil, to reconcile ahead of the coming U.S. military withdrawal.

Judge gives GM nod to buy Delphi assets

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:11:00 -0500

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge gave General Motors Corp permission on Monday to buy several assets of bankrupt auto parts supplier Delphi Corp as part of a deal with a private equity firm that could take Delphi out of bankruptcy.