Washington – Senate Votes To Reopen Gov’t, Avoid Default
Washington - Racing to meet a deadline, the Senate passed and sent to the House legislation Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial govern...
Washington – Senate Leader Announces Bipartisan Budget Deal
Washington - Democratic leader Harry Reid says Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan deal to avoid default and end the government shutdown, now in its 16th day.
Reid made the...
Washington – Reid: House GOP Plan A ‘Blatant Attack On Bipartisanship’
Washington - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday that an alternative debt limit and government funding plan promoted by conservative Republicans in the House of Repre...
Manhattan, NY – Crane That Dangled During Sandy Breaks Again
New York - A crane lost power in midtown Manhattan on Monday, leaving its load dangling 40 floors above a construction site and forcing the closure of a busy street amid the threat...
New York – Tornado Watch In Effect
New York - The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for a large portion of New York and New Jersey.
A tornado watch means conditions are favorable for a tornado. ...
San Francisco – Twitter Unseals IPO Papers, Hopes To Raise $1B
San Francisco - Twitter has unsealed the documents for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion in one of the year's most eagerly aw...
Chicago – 33 Injured After Blue Line Trains Collide
Chicago - As many as four dozen people were injured when two Chicago commuter trains crashed in a western suburb during Monday morning rush hour, though none of the injuries appear...
New York – Suspended Train Service To New York Causes Delays For Thousands
New York - A major commuter line between New York City and Connecticut was halted on Wednesday morning, causing delays for thousands of people.
The Metropolitan Transportation A...
Bethpage, NY – Swastikas Scrawled On 14 Cars On New York’s Long Island
Bethpage, NY - Police on Long Island are investigating after 14 vehicles were found with swastikas scrawled over their windows.
All the graffiti was found in Bethpage between 9 ...
J.P. Morgan to Agree to $700 Million in Fines, Admit Guilt
New York, NY - - JPMorgan Chase & Co is near a final settlement of probes into its London Whale derivatives loss and expects to pay about $700 million, according to source fami...
Washington – Obama: No Ground Troops, Air Campaign In Syria
Washington - President Barack Obama is pledging that he won't deploy ground combat troops or wage a prolonged air campaign against Syria.
In his speech to the nation Tuesday see...
New York – BlackBerry’s Shares Rise As Company Closing In On Rescue Deal
New York - BlackBerry Ltd's U.S. shares rose 3 percent on Monday after a report that a Canadian investor was closing in on a rescue deal for the battered smartphone maker that put ...
New York – CBS, Time Warner Cable Reach Agreement To End Blackout
New York - CBS and Time Warner Cable have ended their payment dispute and expect programming to resume in millions of homes by 6 p.m. ET on Monday.
The agreement ends a monthlon...
New York – Liberty Island Ferry Makes Hard Landing; Riders OK
New York - A ferry shuttling passengers to the Statue of Liberty has made a hard landing at a pier, but there are no serious injuries reported.
The accident happened Tuesday aft...
Baltimore – Passenger Tries To Open Door On Mid-Flight AirTran Jet Bound For Texas
Baltimore - An AirTran Airways flight made an emergency landing in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday evening after a passenger tried to open an emergency exit on the plane, a televisio...
Cairo – Egypt Vice President ElBaradei Resigns
Cairo - Egypt's vice president and pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has resigned to protest deadly police assaults against two sit-in protest camps by supporters of the ousted p...
Washington – Justice Dept. Files Lawsuit to Block US Airways-American Merger
Washington - The Justice Department and a number of state attorneys general on Tuesday challenged a proposed $11 billion merger between US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines'...
Washington – US Employers Add 162K Jobs, Rate Falls To 7.4 Pct.
Washington - U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in July, the fewest since March. But the gains were enough to lower the unemployment rate to a 4 ½ -year low of 7.4 percent.
The L...
Fort Meade, MD – Bradley Manning Acquitted Of Aiding The Enemy; Convicted Of 5 Espionage Counts In WikiLeaks Case
Fort Meade, MD - U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy — the most serious charge he faced — but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges Tuesd...
Eilat – Rocket Fired From Egypt Found In Israel
Eilat - Israeli troops found the remains on Tuesday of the first rocket to be fired from Egypt since the July 3 overthrow of the Islamist government there, a military official said...