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Boater found off Florida, NFL players still missing
March 3, 2009 at 3:38 am

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard rescued one of four boaters on Monday missing in the Gulf of Mexico since Saturday and continued the search for two National Football League players and another man.

Obama pushes centers as one focus of health reform
March 3, 2009 at 3:37 am

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has been vague about details of his healthcare reform efforts, but he provided a hint on Monday of one direction he could take -- community health centers.

Offering help, hope, U.S. "job clubs" see surge
March 3, 2009 at 2:55 am

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (Reuters) - Tom Skidmore has been out of work only since December. But when his former employer filed bankruptcy in January and his severance evaporated, Skidmore knew he didn't have much time. As the sole breadwinner for his family of five, he had to find work fast.

Madoff lawyers: wife's apartment, $62 million unrelated to fraud
March 2, 2009 at 10:50 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York apartment and $62 million belonging to Ruth Madoff, the wife of accused swindler Bernard Madoff, are unrelated to the investment manager's purported fraud, her lawyer said on Monday.

New U.S. labor secretary meets unionists in Miami
March 2, 2009 at 10:08 pm

MIAMI (Reuters) - After just five days on the job, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis made her first public speech as a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet at an open meeting with labor unions on Monday and said "there's a new sheriff in town."

Eastern U.S. snowstorm snarls transport, power
March 2, 2009 at 9:58 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1,000 flights were canceled and hundreds of thousands were left without power on Monday after a late-winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow along the East Coast of the United States.

Subsidy debate weighs farmers vs. children: Vilsack
March 2, 2009 at 4:21 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will need to choose between supporting rich farmers or feeding more hungry children amid a slumping economy and a surging deficit, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Monday.

Blackwater founder resigns as chief executive
March 2, 2009 at 3:45 pm

MIAMI (Reuters) - The chief executive of Blackwater Worldwide, the private security firm whose guards are accused of killing Iraqi civilians while protecting U.S. diplomats, is stepping down, the company said on Monday.

Cost of locking up Americans too high: Pew study
March 2, 2009 at 2:49 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One in every 31 U.S. adults is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation and supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter century ago, according to a report released on Monday by the Pew Center on the States.

Boater found off Florida, NFL players still missing
March 2, 2009 at 2:37 pm

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard rescued one of four boaters on Monday missing in the Gulf of Mexico since Saturday and continued the search for two National Football League players and another man.

Stanford receiver finds liquidity crisis
March 2, 2009 at 2:25 pm

DALLAS (Reuters) - The lawyer appointed to run the Stanford Group Co and two other firms controlled by Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused in an $8 billion fraud, told a federal court on Monday that Stanford Group faces a dire financial squeeze.

Eastern U.S. snowstorm snarls transport, power
March 2, 2009 at 2:20 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1,000 flights were canceled and hundreds of thousands were left without power on Monday after a late-winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow along the East Coast of the United States.

Resistance to flu drug widespread in U.S.: study
March 2, 2009 at 1:51 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday.

Fed's Lacker: Fed credit programs risk independence
March 2, 2009 at 1:27 pm

ARLINGTON, Va (Reuters) - Emergency credit market support from the Federal Reserve has sidestepped Congress and could expose the U.S. central bank to political pressure that hurts its independence, a top Fed policy-maker said on Monday.

Florida lawsuit alleges defective drywall in homes
March 2, 2009 at 1:05 pm

MIAMI (Reuters) - A group of Florida homeowners filed a class-action lawsuit on Monday against a German drywall maker, its Chinese subsidiaries and several U.S. homebuilders, alleging they put toxic drywall in thousands of U.S. homes.

Over 314,000 without power in the U.S. Southeast
March 2, 2009 at 12:07 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 314,000 homes and businesses were without power from Georgia to Virginia after a snow and ice storm pummeled the region overnight, local power companies said early Monday.

Supreme Court won't review "Agent Orange" lawsuits
March 2, 2009 at 10:45 am

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court let stand on Monday the dismissal of lawsuits by Vietnamese nationals and U.S. military veterans against Dow Chemical Co, Monsanto Co and other chemical makers over the use of the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

Consumer spending, incomes rebound in January
March 2, 2009 at 9:09 am

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending rebounded in January, snapping six months of declines, and incomes rose unexpectedly, boosted by salary increases for government employees, a government report showed on Monday.
 

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