Sports Shorts: Sooners fall from football rankings
NEW YORK Over the past decade, Oklahoma has rarely been out of the AP Top 25 and Stanford has rarely been in. On Sunday, the Sooners and Cardinal sort of swapped places. Oklahoma dropped out of the college football poll for the first time since 200...
 3.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 79.0 U.S. is avoiding resolving this issue
In the 16 months since Chinese drywall problems were reported, definitive answers remain frustratingly out of reach. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which for months has been running the gamut of tests on drywall, says results so far are...
1.1K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 79.0 Sports Briefs: Woods holds share of lead with Watney
SHANGHAI Tiger Woods has shot another 5-under 67 in the HSBC Champions, this one giving him a share of the 36-hole lead with Nick Watney in the final World Golf Championship of the year. Woods overcame mild frustration early in his round Friday by ...
6.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 79.0 Here is a look at unemployment rates around the world:
GERMANY German unemployment fell for a second month in October, but the effects of the financial crisis lingered and it is still too early to expect a turnaround in the economy, the country s labor ministry said. The unadjusted jobless rate in Euro...
3.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 79.0 Exxon, Shell win Iraq oil field deal
BAGHDAD A consortium grouping U.S. and European oil giants Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC today signed a $50 billion deal to develop one of Iraq s most prized oil fields, as the OPEC nation looks to revamp its battered energy sec...
4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 124.0 Senator: No fed money for wind project
WASHINGTON A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project because he says it will generate Chinese, not Ame...
3.3K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 237.0 New WGC event needs higher PGA priority
SHANGHAI The field for a World Golf Championship is never as strong when Americans require a passport. The HSBC Champions is no exception. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, the best two players in the world, are competing at the same tournament in As...
5.3K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 124.0 Berkshire buying Burlington Northern
NEW YORK (AP) Legendary investor Warren Buffett is making what he calls an all-in wager on the U.S. economy $34 billion to buy a major railroad that hauls everything from corn to cars across the country. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.,...
5.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 79.0 Bend company preserves national X-mas tree
BEND Santa Claus isn t the only one with a lot of responsibility this Christmas. A Bend company is tasked with keeping the nation s Christmas tree fresh from its cutting later this week until its arrival in Washington, D.C., three weeks later. The ...
2.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 79.0 N. Korea aims for direct U.S. talks
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea said today it has reprocessed 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and extracted enough plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile, raising the stakes in an apparent effort to push the U.S. into direct negotiations. Repr...
3.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 79.0 Storm kills 23 in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said today. The death toll in the hardest-hit province o...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 79.0 German leader urges U.S. to act on climate
WASHINGTON (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress today to tear down the walls of today and reach a deal to combat global warming. Frequently ...
5.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 79.0 N. Korea pushes for talks with U.S.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea pressed the United States to accept its demand for direct talks on the communist regime s nuclear program, issuing a veiled threat today that Pyongyang will expand its nuclear arsenal unless Washington agrees. Th...
3.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 79.0 China's military buildup concerns U.S. Navy leader
HONG KONG (AP) A U.S. Navy admiral expressed new concern today over China s military buildup and urged Beijing to be clearer about its intentions. With China s military growing at an unprecedented rate, the U.S. wants to ensure that expansion doe...
1.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 568.0 China to lift import ban on U.S. pork
WASHINGTON (AP) Chinese officials have agreed to lift the ban on U.S. pork imports they imposed last spring out of fear of swine flu. The announcement, made today, is a major boost to the beleaguered U.S. pork industry, which had already been suffe...
2.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 632.0 Chinese Mecca-bound pilgrims get flu shots
BEIJING (AP) China will give swine flu vaccinations to thousands of Muslims about to make the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, state media said, as authorities reported the mainland s third death from the illness. Concerns over the hajj, which at...
0.9K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 474.0 2 Tibetans executed in China over riots
BEIJING (AP) Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known executions for the violence, an overseas monitoring group said today. China confirmed the executi...
0.7K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 316.0 Obama is leading us into Marxism
Obama and progressive Democrats nationwide are proudly displaying their true colors. Obsessed with national and many statewide wins in last year s election these Democrats have been emboldened to push their rabidly Marxist agenda. As president, Obama...
2.5K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 79.0 World must invest in civil societies
The exact number of protesters shot dead at a demonstration in Guinea last month is unknown. Estimates vary between 150 and 200. Soldiers of the ruling junta beat and raped survivors. The massacre was condemned by the EU, the UN secretary-general and...
1.2K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 79.0 Alienated and now radicalized
In the brief age of Obama, we have had truthers, birthers, Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the Oath Keepers. And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where on...
3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 79.0 | 
