On takeoff, the pilot of Flight 1549 remarked on two things almost immediately: a breathtaking view of the Hudson River and the sickening thump of birds hitting his engines. Warnings about the birds probably would not have helped, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger told federal safety officials Tuesday as they looked for ways to prevent a recurrence [...]
Twenty five culturally significant recordings including a radio broadcast of Marian Anderson’s recital at the Lincoln Memorial, Dylan Thomas reading of “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” and Winston Churchill’a speech that coined the phrase “iron curtain” will be preserved in a special sound archive.
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic moved freely in Serbia under army protection until 2002, although he was wanted by a U.N. court on genocide charges, a former bodyguard said Tuesday.
“It was all legal,” Puhalo said at the trial of 10 people charged with helping Mladic evade justice.
Police rounded up suspects in eight European countries on Tuesday as they cracked down on a human trafficking organization that had smuggled thousands of Iraqi Kurds into Europe aboard trucks, sometimes stuffing them into cages or hiding them in vending machines, authorities said.
Some of the illegal immigrants were hidden inside empty drink vending machines and [...]
The Obama administration and congressional Democrats got a clear view on Tuesday of the uphill political path they face in pushing for tighter regulation of U.S. banks and financial markets.
Targeting not only banks and markets for change, but also executive pay, hedge funds and so-called “systemic risk” to the economy, the Obama plan has been [...]
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee adopted an amendment to an energy bill that would allow drilling within 45 miles of Floridas Gulf coast.
The new language offered by Senator Byron Dorgan passed by a 13-10 vote and would also open the Destin Dome area 24 miles south of Pensacola to drilling.
The government is urging parents and homebuilders to make their homes more healthy by getting rid of lead paint, mold, and other hazards.
“In the United States today, the leading preventable causes of death, disease, and disabliity are asthma, lead poisoning, deaths in house fires, falls on stairs and from windows, burns and scald injuries and [...]
Chrysler LLC could get federal bankruptcy court approval on Tuesday to trim its dealer network by a quarter, although opponents want any order delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the sale of the company.
Chrysler lawyers asked the judge to make any order approving the rejection of 789 dealer contracts to be effective immediately, [...]
The United States has said it is committed to outlining a new basis for negotiations over the stalled Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks by August.
“Doing nothing, rejecting pursuing an alternative to what we have been doing for the past three rounds is in fact a decision that leads to a failure of Doha, [...]
A day after announcing the acceleration of federal spending under his economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama Tuesday called for binding legislation that would force a return to pay-as-you-go budgeting rules.
The president also used his appearance in the White House East Room to tout the administrations success in allowing 10 federally bailed-out banks to repay [...]
