Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Violent protests left at least five dead and others wounded Wednesday as demonstrations over Quran burning intensified in Afghanistan. Police killed four people and wounded 10 others during protests in Parwan province, said Abdul Wassi Sayedkhili, a provincial council official. Health officials said a fifth person died and 10 others wounded [...]
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An NBC News poll shows that GOP presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are neck-and-neck in Michigan, Romney’s birthplace. Romney, meanwhile, has a comfortable lead in Arizona, which has a sizable Mormon population. Less than a week before Tuesday’s crucial Republican presidential primary in Michigan, a new NBC News/Marist poll shows Mitt Romney and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »5 killed as protests over Quran burning rage in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Violent protests left at least five dead and others wounded Wednesday as demonstrations over Quran burning intensified in Afghanistan. Police killed four people and wounded 10 others during protests in Parwan province, said Abdul Wassi Sayedkhili, a provincial council official. Health officials said a fifth person died and 10 others wounded [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Assad seeks to bomb Homs into submission, alarms world |
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon AMMAN | Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:31am EST AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that has caused an international outcry for intervention to end [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama to release corporate tax reform plan
Washington (CNN) — The Treasury Department will unveil President Barack Obama’s corporate tax reform plan on Wednesday, senior administration officials told CNN. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told a Senate panel last week the plan will be an effort to find “common ground” on broad principles between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. “We want to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Iran Allegedly Blocks Nuclear Probe
AP VIENNA – The U.N. nuclear agency on Wednesday acknowledged its renewed failure in trying to probe suspicions that Tehran has worked secretly on atomic arms, in a statement issued shortly after an Iranian general warned of a pre-emptive strike against any nation that threatens Iran. The double signs of defiance reflected continued Iranian determination [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama Corporate Tax Plan To Drop Rate to 28 Percent
AP Feb. 16, 2012: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify before the House Budget Committee hearing on President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2013 federal budget. WASHINGTON – Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Santorum gains in Ariz. before debate
CNN LIVE: Tune in Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET for the last presidential debate before Super Tuesday, the CNN/Arizona Republican Party Debate hosted by John King. Follow it on Twitter at #CNNDebate and on Facebook at CNN Politics. For real-time coverage of the Arizona and Michigan primaries, go to CNNPolitics.com or to the CNN apps [...]
Read the rest of this entry »For Santorum voters, he’s a candidate like them
By Samuel P. Jacobs COLUMBUS, Ohio | Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:18pm EST COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – Sporting his signature sweater vest and telling stories of his coal miner grandfather, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has struck a chord in the U.S. Rust Belt that is helping propel his once long-shot candidacy. Although he is [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Dow Touches 13000 but Can’t Hold On
By JONATHAN CHENG And CHRISTIAN BERTHELSEN The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed above 13000 for the first time in almost four years, though it failed to hang onto the gains through the day’s end. The Dow Jones Industrial Average pierced the 13000 level for the first time in almost four years, but traded largely below [...]
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