NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN is on the brink of bankruptcy and its leaders will hold a teleconference this weekend to discuss the group's future, The New York Times reported on its website on Friday.
Citing two leaders of the group, the Times reported ...More
CHICAGO (Reuters) - LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers became the youngest player to score 15,000 career points in the NBA on Friday, bettering Kobe Bryant's record by more than two years.
The small forward accomplished the feat at 25 years, 79 days in his team's 92-85 victory ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and an inspirational Web site on Friday gave $30,000 toward the college education of a teenage lesbian whose high school prom was canceled when she asked to attend with a girl.
Constance McMillen, 18, of Itawamba County, Mississippi, appeared on "The ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday delayed a $657.5 million settlement for workers who suffered health problems after the September 11, 2001, attacks, saying the process must be transparent and lawyers fees should not be drawn from the funds.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched a review into how broadcasters and cable companies negotiate retransmission deals following a recent spat between Walt Disney Co's ABC Network and Cablevision Systems Corp.
ABC pulled its signal from New York's Cablevision on the night of the Oscars ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top-ranking Colombian rebel was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison by a judge in New York on Friday for conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
Jorge Enrique Rodriguez Mendieta, 47, pleaded guilty in December in U.S. District Court, admitting ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unemployment rates in 363 U.S. metropolitan areas rose in January, and 346 areas reported year-on-year declines in their number of jobs, the Labor Department said on Friday.
Nearly 200 metropolitan areas reported jobless rates of at least 10 percent in January, showing that unemployment problems persist at ...More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will cut food prices and mount a new ad campaign over the next six weeks, a threat to other U.S. grocers that sent an industry shares index down more than 2 percent on Friday.
A Morgan Stanley analyst first reported the world's ...More
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - As the Congress once again rallies to pass healthcare reform legislation, momentum is growing in many states to pass laws to block the changes -- a move that could lead to a legal battle over states' sovereignty.
Bills and resolutions have been introduced in at least 36 state ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the estate of late model Anna Nicole Smith was not entitled to one cent of the more than $300 million she sought from the estate of her billionaire oil baron husband.
In the latest twist in a 15-year battle ...More
