January 29, 2009 – 9:44 am
President Barack Obama signed a new pay-equity measure into law Thursday, effectively overturning a 2007 Supreme Court decision that made it harder to sue for pay discrimination.
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, named for a former Goodyear Tire employee who sued the company for gender discrimination in 1998, is the first bill signed by [...]
January 15, 2009 – 10:04 am
Bitter cold weather was sweeping across the nation Thursday, putting the Midwest in a deep freeze.
To the east, morning lows were in the teens along much of the Interstate 95 corridor that hugs the Atlantic from Maine to Florida.
Temperatures in Michigan dipped to 19 degrees below zero, while snow caused more traffic nightmares in the [...]
January 13, 2009 – 8:19 am
President-elect Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, people briefed by Obama transition officials said Monday.
But experts say it is likely to take many months, perhaps as long as a year, to empty the prison that has drawn international [...]
January 12, 2009 – 7:31 am
The Army has been dismissing so many overweight applicants that its top recruiter, trying to keep troop numbers up in wartime, is considering starting a fat farm to transform chubby trainees into svelte soldiers.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Bostick, head of the Army Recruiting Command, said he wants to see a formal diet and fitness regimen running alongside [...]
January 11, 2009 – 10:56 pm
President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday the suffering on both sides of Gaza’s borders has led him to ramp up his commitment to working for a peace deal in the Middle East.
“When you see civilians, whether Palestinian or Israeli, harmed, under hardship, it’s heartbreaking. And obviously what that does is it makes me much more determined [...]
December 22, 2008 – 9:39 am
When FBI and immigration agents arrested a 28-year-old Guatemalan woman three months ago in Los Angeles, they announced that they had shut down one of the most elaborate sex trafficking rings in the country. It was also the family business.
The woman, Maribel Rodriguez Vasquez, was the sixth member of her family to be rounded up [...]
December 18, 2008 – 8:10 am
More than 20 employees of Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior have been arrested on allegations that they were plotting to revive Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Baath party, government officials said Thursday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf told reporters that 23 people had been arrested over the past five days but he dismissed suggestions they were [...]
