Wind gusting up to 68 mph per hour wreaked havoc for commuters across the Northeast on Wednesday, blowing debris across railroad tracks, overturning eighteen-wheelers and making for a choppy ferry ride.Some 200,000 homes and businesses across the region lost power, and several airports reported morning delays of an hour or more.Two lanes of the George Washington Bridge, linking New Jersey and New York City, were closed during the morning rush hour after a tractor-trailer flipped over in high wind. Another tractor-trailer accident shut down the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York, causing miles-long backups....
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Editor - 12:21:00 01-18-06
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 Rice Says the International Community Is United in Its Mistrust of Iran Over Nuclear Policies. Rice neglects to say how many of these same countries trust in the US |
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday condemned Iran's decision to resume its nuclear program, saying that the international community is united in mistrusting the Islamic republic and its present leadership with such technology. "I think we have a good deal of coherence in the view of the major powers about the fact that Iran stepped over a line when it broke the seals" and resumed reprocessing nuclear fuel, she told a foreign policy forum. On Jan. 10, Iran removed some U.N. seals from its main uranium enrichment facility in Natanz in central Iran and resumed research on nuclear fuel including small-scale enrichment after a 2 1/2-year freeze. "Nobody wants Iran to have that capability," Rice said in a speech at Georgetown University. The world is not so thrilled that the US not only has Nukes, but we seem to have a bunch of Nut Cases with itchy fingers on the button...
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Editor - 10:36:00 01-18-06
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| Worldwide share slide reaches US |
Wall Street shares opened sharply down on Wednesday after weaker-than-expected results overnight from Intel and Yahoo, and a plunge on Tokyo's Nikkei. The Tokyo exchange had to close 20 minutes early as a rush of selling following allegations of fraud at a firm threatened a system meltdown. Both this and the failure of Intel and Yahoo to meet profit expectations had a knock-on effect on European exchanges. In opening US trade, the main Dow Jones index was down 35 points to 10,861. The technology-heavy Nasdaq fell 36 points to 2,267, while the Standard & Poor's 500 had given up six points to 1,277. "It's going to start bad [Wednesday trading in New York], but the key is how the market finishes," said analyst John Hughes, managing director at Epiphany Equity Research. ...
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Editor - 10:04:00 01-18-06
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| Alito gets support from Senate Democrat Nelson says Supreme Court nominee has impeccable credentials |
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has the confirmation vote of at least one Senate Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who praised Alito as a man of “impeccable judicial credentials.”The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote next Tuesday on Alito’s nomination to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who often casts the swing vote on controversial cases. Senate Democrats were meeting Wednesday to discuss the nomination.Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., announced before the meeting that she will vote against Alito. “I have a lot of unanswered questions,” Mikulski told reporters after attending the swearing-in of new Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J....
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Editor - 09:53:00 01-18-06
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| Iraq Looking Into Whether Bird Flu Was Responsible for Death of 15-Year-Old Girl in Kurdistan |
Doctors are investigating if the bird flu virus was responsible for the death of a 15-year-old girl in Kurdistan near the border with Turkey and Iran, an Iraqi Health Ministry official said Wednesday. The girl died Tuesday after contracting a severe lung infection in her home town of Raniya, just north of a reservoir that's a stopover for migratory birds from Turkey, the site of a recent bird flu outbreak. Kurdish officials have begun to burn and bury dead birds, as well as kill any migratory birds they capture, said Kurdistan Health Minister Mohammed Khoshnow. The girl's family apparently kept chickens in their house and some of those birds also died, said Dr. Abdul Jalil Naji. Raniya is about 60 miles south of the Turkish border and just 15 miles west of Iran. ...
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Editor - 09:45:00 01-18-06
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| Iraq Baath-hunter denounces new Saddam chief judge |
The Iraqi court trying Saddam Hussein was thrown into fresh confusion on Wednesday when a senior official denounced the new chief judge as a member of Saddam's banned Baath party who should be barred from office."(Sayeed) al-Hamashi is the object of a debaathification inquiry," Ali Faisal, executive manager of the independent Debaathification Commission, told Reuters. "His presence in this court violates the statutes … and he must be replaced." He said Hamashi's position at the court only came to the Commission's notice when he was named by tribunal officials as taking over after the previous chief judge resigned last week....
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