January 8th
TODAY: Obama says Congress must act boldly and now on economy - Charleston Daily Mail
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama implored Congress to "act boldly and act now'' on Thursday to fix an economy growing perilously weaker, and leading lawmakers set an informal goal of mid-February for enacting tax cuts and government ...
Mass. to require restaurant chains to post calorie counts - Union-News & Sunday Republican
BOSTON - Massachusetts plans to fight its obesity problem by requiring restaurant chains to post calorie counts and waging an aggressive campaign to educate parents about overweight students. According to the Department of Public Health, the ...
Dutch and Japanese aid workers released in Somalia - NRC Handelsblad
The aid worker, Willem Sools, and the doctor, Keiko Akahane, were kidnapped by Somali rebels in September 2008. At the time they were working for Medecins du Monde, an international aid organisation, in Ethiopia's remote eastern Ogaden region. The ...
Ga., Minn. part of national salmonella outbreak - Minneapolis Star Tribune
ATLANTA - Georgia, Ohio and Minnesota are among the states that are part of a national salmonella outbreak that has sent at least a dozen people to the hospital and sickened nearly 400 people, officials said Thursday. Forty-two states have reported ...
European shares end lower on gloomy data, Wal-Mart - Reuters
LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - European shares fell on Thursday, led lower by banks and miners, as a flurry of gloomy economic data raised worries about a deep global recession and weak sales by the world's top retailer, Wal-Mart ( WMT.N ), hurt sentiment ...
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