WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday called on Iran to immediately release three Americans who were detained a year ago after straying across the border while hiking in the mountains of northern Iraq.
Also tagged across-the, across-the-border, after-straying, border, border-while, called-on-iran, iraq-, mountains, obama, obama-on-friday, president, release-three, the-mountains, year-agoThere have been “credible sightings” recently of a California woman who vanished nearly a year ago after being released from a sheriff’s station, authorities said Wednesday. Original post: Police: ‘Credible sightings’ regarding missing California woman The Portland, Oregon bankruptcy attorneys and Vancouver Washington bankruptcy lawyers of the Bankruptcy Practice Group …
Also tagged after-being, bankruptcy, bankruptcy-attorneys, bankruptcy-lawyers, california, group, oregon, police, portland, regarding-missing, released-from, vancouver, vanished-nearly, wednesdayCHICAGO (Reuters) – Obesity rates climbed again last year with 28 U.S. states reporting adults are fatter now than a year ago, two advocacy groups said on Tuesday.
Also tagged domesticnews, groups-said, obesity, rates-climbed, states-reporting, tuesday, two-advocacy, year-agoNEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. travel over the Memorial Day weekend will jump 5.4 percent this year as an improved economy from a year ago prompts more Americans to take to the road, travel and auto group AAA projected on Thursday.
Also tagged aaa, auto-group, domesticnews, jump-5-4, memorial, new, over-the-memorial, prompts-more, road, thursday, year, year-agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. federal budget deficit in the first half of fiscal 2010 is down 8 percent from the same period a year ago, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
Also tagged domesticnews, first, fiscal-2010, from-the-same, monday, percent-from, reported-on-monday, same, the-first, year-agoMONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – U.S. and Mexican officials pledged on Monday to set up a working group to resolve a trucking dispute, dampening hopes of a quick end to a spat that caused Mexico to slap duties on about $2.4 billion of U.S. exports more than a year ago.
Also tagged a-quick-end, a-trucking-dispute, dampening-hopes, domesticnews, mexico, monday, officials-pledged, quick-endNEW YORK – (AP) The number of homeowners on the brink of losing their homes dipped in October, the third straight monthly decline, as foreclosure prevention programs helped more borrowers. But foreclosure filings are still up 19 percent from a year ago, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday, See the rest here: Foreclosures …
Also tagged brink, foreclosures, helped-more, homeowners-on-the, homes, october-, percent-from, realty, straight-monthly, third, year-agoNEW YORK – (AP) The number of homeowners on the brink of losing their homes dipped in October, the third straight monthly decline, as foreclosure prevention programs helped more borrowers. But foreclosure filings are still up 19 percent from a year ago, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday, See the rest here: Foreclosures …
Also tagged brink, foreclosures, homeowners-on-the, homes-dipped, new, realty, straight-monthly, the-brink, the-rest, the-third, thursday, year-ago, yorkCIT Group Inc. provides financing to about 1 million small and mid-sized businesses. Its bankruptcy filing Sunday could be one of the biggest in U.S. corporate history. The government lent CIT more than $2 billion a year ago. Taxpayers will probably lose that money as a result of the …
Also tagged and-mid-sized, bankruptcy-filing, cit, corporate-history-, group, million-small, the-, will-probably, year-agoCEO Fritz Henderson says the company has moved aggressively and successfully launched new cars. Still, there’s turnover in top management, and September sales were down 45% compared to a year ago. General Motors Co. is making progress in restructuring its operations three months after emerging from bankruptcy, the automaker’s top …
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