Archive for April, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget the inflated rhetoric, the polls showing public anger about Wall Street, the convoluted details of financial derivatives and even the Capitol barbecue of Goldman Sachs moneymen.

Republicans and Democrats both got what…

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FAO dice que se puede erradicar el hambre en Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Panamá (EFE).- La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura (FAO) concluyó su trigésima primera Conferencia para América Latina y el Caribe con el…

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Washington, 1 may (EFE).- El presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, pidió hoy al Congreso limitar la influencia de las empresas y de grupos especiales de interés en los procesos electorales ante el…

– Consumers spent more and helped lift the economy last quarter but not enough to ignite the recovery and drive down unemployment.

Spending by consumers rose by the fastest pace in three years, the Commerce Department said Friday . That helped the…

Authorities arrested 596 illegal immigrants with prior criminal convictions in a three-day sweep across the Southeastern United States this week, the nation’s top immigration enforcement officer said Friday.

Most of them will be deported, though 22 may…

Gov. Bob McDonnell heads for an offshore technology conference in Houston on Monday, as workers in the Gulf of Mexico try feverishly to stop a well from leaking thousands of barrels of crude into the water.

McDonnell will sit on the aptly titled panel…

With the 24-7 cable TV news cycle now beamed all over the world, President Barack Obama must be wondering whether he will ever have a moment of peace. If it isn’t the Tea Party people calling him a socialist, it’s Republicans saying his administration…

Gov. Bob McDonnell told the Obama administration Friday that Virginia will not create a monetary pool to help people with life-threatening ailments afford insurance under the new federal health reforms.

The Republican governor told Health and Human…