NJ Governor-Obama TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - President Barack Obama will appear at the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel - not New Brunswick - when he comes to New Jersey for a campaign rally for Gov. Jon Corzine next week.The Corzine campaign announced on its Web site Thursday that the rally would be moved from Rutgers University in New Brunswick to accommodate a larger crowd.Corzine campaign manager Maggie Moran says in a Web video the move was made to accommodate the anticipated crowd.
More than 50,000...
New General Motors about to roll off assembly line DETROIT (AP) - The new General Motors is about to roll off the assembly line as a leaner, greener model, maybe even a profitable one, too.Once the world's largest and most powerful automaker, the troubled company was expected to emerge from bankruptcy protection by early Friday cleansed of massive debt and burdensome contracts that would have sunk it without federal loans.The new company, 61 percent owned by the U.S. government, will clear bankruptcy in record time to face a brutally...
VP Biden expected in RI for funeral wake PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Providence to attend the wake for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd's sister.Colleen Flanagan, a spokeswoman for the Connecticut Democratic Party, says Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are due in Rhode Island on Thursday evening for a wake at a Providence funeral home.Dodd's sister, Marta Dodd Buonanno, died Monday of cancer. She was 68.
VP Biden expected in RI for funeral wake PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Providence to attend the wake for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd's sister...
Woman vanishes at skyscraper near ground zero NEW YORK (AP) - A Manhattan skyscraper in one of the most security-conscious parts of the city has become the scene of an unlikely missing persons mystery.Police are trying to figure out what happened to a cleaning woman who vanished midway through her shift Tuesday evening at an office tower a few hundred feet from the World Trade Center reconstruction site.Eridania Rodriguez, 46, punched in for work at 2 Rector Street around 5 p.m. She donned her blue uniform, chatted with other after-hours...
China Earthquake BEIJING (AP) - A moderate earthquake rocked southwest China Thursday evening, injuring at least 336 people and collapsing 10,000 homes, state media said.The magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province's Yao'an county, damaged another 30,000 homes, the Xinhua News Agency said.Thirty people suffered severe injuries, while the other 305 were slightly injured, Xinhua said.The quake was followed by eight aftershocks and the provincial civil affairs department was sending 4,500 tents, 3,000...
US first lady tours quake-hit city L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) - Michelle Obama and other first spouses toured the center of L'Aquila on Thursday to see the destruction wrought by an earthquake in the Italian city hosting world leaders for the Group of Eight summit this week.Obama shook her head as she took in the extent of the damage to centuries-old churches and other treasures turned to rubble by the earthquake that claimed more than 300 lives.The U.S. first lady walked along piles of debris though L'Aquila's main square and in...
NJ - Train Fatal (Secaucus, NJ) -- A woman was killed after she jumped in front of a train in Secaucus this afternoon. Police say just before 1 p.m. the woman lept in front of a moving train at the Secaucus Transfer Station and she was killed...
Britain: Newspaper Privacy LONDON (AP) - British police say there will be no new investigation into allegations that journalists from a tabloid newspaper illegally hacked into the mobile phones of hundreds of celebrities and politicians.Assistant Commissioner John Yates was asked by London's police chief to look into the claims against the News of the World paper. But Yates said Thursday he won't launch any new inquiry.In 2007, the paper's royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for four months for hacking into royal...
Obama On Climate Change (L'Aquila) -- President Obama says nations of the world are making some "important strides forward" in addressing global climate change. At the G8 economic summit in Italy, Obama called global warming "one of defining challenges of our time." He argued that the U.S. has an "historic responsibility to lead." Obama also insisted that there's no reason why the nations of the world cannot achieve both environmental sensibility and robust...
Honduras Coup SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Leaders of the government that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in a coup arrived in Costa Rica Thursday for talks aimed at resolving the crisis, but with both sides questioning the other's claim to the presidency, there seemed to be very little common ground.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is mediating negotiations between Zelaya and interim leader Roberto Micheletti at the request of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary...
Ritual Cited In Stamford Grave Theft Police officials believe some kind of ritual may have been behind the theft of a child's body from a grave in a Stamford cemetery. Police say evidence found at the scene where the body was stolen in Stamford and was recovered in New Jersey both point to a ritual. Before her death, doctors dubbed the child a miracle baby, as she lived for more than two years with a disease that usually kills a baby either right before or right after birth. The case...
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Obama gets jersey, and maybe a dig, from Brazil President Barack Obama seemed pleased with the gift he received Thursday from Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but it was bittersweet nonetheless.Silva gave Obama, a big sports fan, an autographed yellow Brazilian soccer jersey at the start of their morning meeting at the G-8 summit in Italy.During their banter, which reporters partly heard through a translator, Silva spoke animatedly of the June 28 soccer match between the U.S. and Brazilian national teams...
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