MIAMI (Reuters) - A 70-year-old U.S. scientist was detained for questioning at Miami's international airport after a suspicious metal canister in his luggage triggered a bomb scare that shut down airport operations overnight, authorities said on Friday. Police said the airport had reopened and was operating normally on Friday ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will outline new measures next week to boost the U.S. economy after August data on Friday showed again that jobs -- the central issue in November elections -- were being created too slowly. Obama, speaking to reporters in the White House Rose Garden, greeted a better-than-expected ...More
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - There has been a slight increase in the national unemployment rate. The Labor Department says the jobless rate in August was 9.6 percent, up just a tenth of a point from July. Federal government employment fell in August, as 114,000 temporary workers hired for ...More
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States reiterated on Friday that it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 even though the Senate has failed to pass legislation. "I am in no sense writing off legislation over time. And I'm quite sure the president isn't," U.S. climate ...More
Corrects spelling of Gleevec in 12th paragraph SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - It wasn't what you would call a casual get-together. In February 2009, a popular New York blogger attended a brunch with fellow "frazzled moms." They took in tips from a style expert and listened to a nurse extol ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in either plan, according to a new report. The study published on Friday in the journal "Health Affairs" recommended policy reforms and broader ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One upside of the worst U.S. economic slump since the Great Depression is that with fewer motorists on the road, the nation's highways are less congested and in better shape, a study said on Thursday. The condition of urban interstate highways and rural primary roads ...More
