Washington : The first gay couples to take advantage of a law that allows same-sex couples to marry in Washington gave their “I dos” Tuesday.
Ceremonies were held Tuesday morning at the courthouse and at the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy group that broadcast the ceremonies of three couples live on the internet.
Washington last [...]
New York: Major US stock indices posted mild gains Tuesday, led by troubled financial firms bailed out by the US government in the past year.
Boeing, General Electric, AT&T and United Technologies also saw their shares rise during the trading day. Boeing’s gains came after rivals EADS and Northrop Grumman late Monday pulled out of a [...]
Washington: A US congressional committee Thursday passed a resolution declaring that the World War I-era slayings of more than 1 million Armenians by the Ottomans was a genocide, a move opposed by the White House and sure to anger Turkey.
The Foreign Affairs Committee approved the resolution with a narrow 23-22 vote, but it remained questionable [...]
Washington: South Asian residents of Washington metropolitan area targeted by a group of picky burglars for their gold jewellery are upset over dismissal of 12 more charges against two suspects.
The dismissal of charges against the two suspects by prosecutors in Loudoun county in Northern Virginia Thursday marked the collapse of the police investigation into the [...]
New York: US stock indices Tuesday ended slightly higher, paring gains that had pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average into positive territory for 2010.
The mild gains came ahead of a highly anticipated monthly unemployment report and other economic data due out later this week.
The blue-chip Dow inched up 2.19 points, or 0.02 percent, to 10,405.98. [...]
Washington: The US Supreme Court appeared to be leaning toward granting all Americans the right to own firearms, in the latest landmark case Tuesday involving gun rights in the country.
The justices in the country’s highest court heard oral arguments over a three-decade-old city ban on handguns in Chicago. The debate revolves around how far states [...]
Washington: President Barack Obama’s doctor has given him an excellent bill of health but has obliquely asked him to cut down on those cheese burgers he sneaks off to eat once in a while.
“The president is in excellent health and ‘fit for duty,’” Dr. Jeff Kuhlman, a Navy captain and physician to the president wrote [...]
New York:US stocks fluctuated in a narrow range and ended slightly higher Friday as mixed economic data offered little help to investors who were eager to figure out the direction of the recovery, Xinhua reported.
The Dow Jones inched up 4.23, or 0.04 percent, to 10,325.26. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index added 1.56, or 0.14 [...]
Austin (US): A single-engine private plane, reportedly flown by a suicidal pilot, crashed here Thursday into a seven-storey building complex housing the offices of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) injuring two people, media reports said.
The pilot was killed while two people were injured and one person was unaccounted for in the crash that federal officials [...]
Washington: The US Federal Reserve has grown slightly more optimistic about the pace of the US economic recovery, leading some members to ponder raising interest rates and shrinking the central bank’s massive balance sheet in the near future.
Minutes released Wednesday of the Fed’s interest rate-setting meeting in late January showed that members believed the world’s [...]