U.S. troops likely for Afghanistan in January
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there. The White House emphasized that the president hasn t made a deci...
 3.3K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 99.0 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 99.0 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 99.0 U.S. reverses policy, engages Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) The United States began a new policy of engagement with Myanmar s ruling military junta today, sending two senior diplomats for the highest-level visit in more than a decade. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top ...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 99.0 Economy sees its first boost since spring '08
WASHINGTON The economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in two years, fueled by government-supported spending on cars and homes. It s the strongest signal yet that the economy has entered a new, though fragile, pha...
7.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 99.0 President won't commit on troops
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will not commit more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until he is convinced that the central government can be a credible and effective U.S. partner, a senior White House aide said Sunday. But it was unclear whether Obam...
4.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 99.0 Oregon job losses hit predicted bottom point
PORTLAND With the news that Oregon shed 10,000 more jobs in September, the toll the Great Recession has taken on unemployment has reached the turnaround point in hiring predicted by state economist Tom Potiowsky. He s sticking with his story. Most ...
3.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 99.0 Oregon job losses hit predicted bottom point
PORTLAND With the news that Oregon shed 10,000 more jobs in September, the toll the Great Recession has taken on unemployment has reached the turnaround point in hiring predicted by state economist Tom Potiowsky. He s sticking with his story. Most ...
3.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 99.0 Court acquits coup plotters
MANILA, Philippines (AP) A Philippine military tribunal acquitted 11 officers today of plotting a foiled 2006 coup against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The defendants are among a total of 28 military officers who were detained following the a...
1.8K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 99.0 Russia: U.S. can't fight Afghan drugs alone
MOSCOW (AP) Russia s counter-narcotics chief today criticized U.S. and NATO anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan as inadequate and called for joint action against the Afghan heroin flooding into the former Soviet Union. In an interview with The Associa...
4.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 99.0 Obama postpones meeting with Dalai Lama
WASHINGTON A decision by Barack Obama to postpone his first meeting as president with the Dalai Lama is overshadowing a visit to Washington this week by the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet s Buddhists. The Dalai Lama arrived Monday in Washington a...
3.6K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 99.0 Olympics headed to South America
COPENHAGEN ” Like sweet, sultry samba music, Rio hit all the right notes. Chicago had Barack Obama. Tokyo had $4 billion in the bank. Madrid had powerful friends. But none of that mattered. Rio de Janeiro had the enchanting story ...
8.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 99.0 Rio to host 2016 Olympics
COPENHAGEN Finally, South America gets an Olympics. The 2016 Games are going to Rio de Janeiro. In a vote of high drama, the bustling Brazilian carnival city of beaches, mountains and samba beat surprise finalist Madrid, which got a big helping han...
4.6K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 157.0 Fox invests in its first Chinese film
HONG KONG (AP) Fox Filmed Entertainment says it has invested in its first Chinese film, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to enter the booming mainland movie market. The Chinese-language romantic comedy Hot Summer Days will be a co-production ...
0.9K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 99.0 Why they will (or won t) win
Friday s vote by the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen to select the host city for the 2016 Summer Games is too close to call. Any of the four candidate cities Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo could win. Then again, any city ...
6.0K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 99.0 Wall of water kills 100 people
APIA, Samoa A massive tsunami unleashed by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing today. The death toll was expected to rise. Survivors fled the fast-chur...
7.6K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 157.0 Asia storm leaves more than 300 dead
MANILA, Philippines (AP) One of the most destructive storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia, blowing down wooden villages in Cambodia and crushing Vietnamese houses under mudslides after submerging much of the Philippine cap...
5.4K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 1000.0 New era of street food
LOS ANGELES Peruvian rice, steaming Greek falafels, satay dripping with peanut sauce, doughy Salvadoran pupusas, slippery Thai noodles. In much of the world, they are just on-the-go eats for the masses. But in the U.S., a growing cadre of chefs and...
7.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 157.0 Northwest wheat growers seeking local market
REARDAN, Wash. (AP) Fred Fleming stands in a field of golden wheat, surveying miles of grain as it gradually succumbs to the power of tanklike harvesters. It s been more than a century since his great-grandfather first drove horses across these Eas...
7.9K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 99.0 New era of street food
LOS ANGELES Peruvian rice, steaming Greek falafels, satay dripping with peanut sauce, doughy Salvadoran pupusas, slippery Thai noodles. In much of the world, they are just on-the-go eats for the masses. But in the U.S., a growing cadre of chefs and...
10.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 157.0 | 
