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By Signal Editorial Staff | Feb. 25, 2009Lawyers in Washington hired by mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac are quietly investigating the firm's own $2 million lobbying campaign The Associated ...
Read More »Lawyers in Washington hired by mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac are quietly investigating the firm's own $2 million lobbying campaign The Associated ...
Read More »CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Illegal methamphetamine "cooks" are traipsing undetected through an unknown number of motels and hotels with covert drug-making ...
Read More »COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels, facing likely defeat on the battlefield, appealed for a cease-fire Monday - a call immediately rejected ...
Read More »BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The sounds of the last desperate minutes in the cockpit aboard Flight 3407 could be clues to the cause of a crash that came violently ...
Read More »PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - The government agreed to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive across much of northwest Pakistan on Monday in ...
Read More »President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said Monday a referendum victory that removed limits on his re-election is a mandate to intensify his socialist agenda ...
Read More »WASHINGTON - An $838 billion economic stimulus bill backed by the White House survived a key test vote in the Senate Monday despite strong Republican ...
Read More »Poland condemned the apparent beheading of one its citizens by Pakistani militants as "bestial." The killing underscored the challenges facing a new ...
Read More »NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez admitted Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-2003, saying he did so because of the pressures of being ...
Read More »QUETTA, Pakistan - Authorities searched for an American U.N. worker kidnapped Monday in southwestern Pakistan in an attack that underscored the security ...
Read More »FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky's governor will ask President Barack Obama on Monday to speed up federal aid dollars as costs spiral past $45 million for emergency ...
Read More »An Israeli aircraft's missile struck a car traveling in the southern Gaza Strip, killing a Palestinian militant on Monday. A volcano near Tokyo erupted ...
Read More »Bolivian voters embraced a new constitution Sunday that promises more power for the long-suffering indigenous majority and grants leftist President Evo ...
Read More »SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Taking his defense to the airwaves rather than his impeachment trial, Gov. Rod Blagojevich lashed out at his accusers Monday ...
Read More »BAGHDAD (AP) - Two U.S. helicopters crashed Monday in northern Iraq, killing four American troops, the U.S. military said, in the deadliest single incident ...
Read More »JERUSALEM (AP) - Gaza's streets brimmed with energy Monday as people picked up the pieces of their lives, while Israeli officials said they planned to ...
Read More »The Russian state news agency reported Monday that Russia and Ukraine reached a deal to settle a gas dispute. A suicide car bomb attack killed five ...
Read More »ATLANTA (AP) - The inauguration of the first black U.S. president is a huge step toward realizing civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of ...
Read More »CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration ...
Read More »The stock market suffered one of its worst single days since the September financial meltdown Monday with the Dow industrials falling nearly 680 points ...
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