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Judge blocks key provisions of Arizona's controversial law from taking effect as scheduled today; governor to appeal decision.


Law - Arizona - Immigration - United States - Immigration law

Obama administration wants more e-mail records available without court order.


Federal Bureau of Investigation - United States - Telecommunication - Government - Barack Obama

A federal judge blocked key provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law from taking effect as scheduled Thursday, granting in part an injunction requested by the Obama administration.


Law - Arizona - Immigration - United States - Immigration law

Official in Afghanistan said sailor who had been missing since Friday was found shot to death.


Taliban - Afghanistan - United States - Politics - Asia

Less visible on gulf surface, it could be underwater or eaten up by microbes.


Water - Oil - Environment - Business - Alternative

Why Obama rubs elbows with average Joes during the day and woos the rich and famous at night.


Barack Obama - United States - President - History - Government

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most contested provisions of Arizona's new immigration law one day before they were to take effect, ratcheting up the legal and political debate over the increasingly divisive issue.


Law - United States - Immigration - Services - Lawyers and Law Firms

The Justice Department's inspector general is investigating whether hundreds of FBI agents violated rules in taking a 2009 exam meant to ensure that they could follow aggressive investigative guidelines without intruding on Americans' privacy rights, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III acknowledge...


Federal Bureau of Investigation - Robert Mueller - United States Department of Justice - United States - Government

For anyone trying to save a victim of cardiac arrest, the questions used to be: How many breaths do I give? How many chest compressions? And do I really want to do this in the first place?


Health - American Heart Association - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Business - Public Health and Safety

Ten years ago, many experts thought you couldn't bring antiretroviral therapy to people with AIDS in poor countries. The drugs cost too much, there weren't enough doctors, the patients wouldn't take the medicines correctly, and the risk of creating a resistant virus was too high.



HIV - AIDS - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Immune Disorders

Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) said Wednesday that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission should drop his push to re-regulate broadband lines.


United States - Government - Cecilia Kang - Facebook - Washington Post

The Obama administration is revising the latest report on its troubled mortgage-relief program, and the changes are likely to show a greater number of borrowers facing foreclosure after having their loans modified.


Recreation - Volkswagen - Thing - Makes and Models - Autos

Former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling is seeking to be released from prison on bail while an appeals court reconsiders convictions questioned by the Supreme Court.


Supreme Court of the United States - Supreme Court - Enron - Jeffrey Skilling - Law

A measure designed to ease stubbornly high rates of violent crime, including rape and sexual assault, within Indian reservations will be signed into law by President Obama on Thursday.



Crime - United States - President - Research - Barack Obama

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said Wednesday that senators who oversee the U.S. Postal Service's budget will block a proposal by the head of that agency to drop Saturday mail delivery.


United States Postal Service - United States - Postal Service - Mail - Government

Fairfax County is planning to move its public safety headquarters as the 43-year-old, asbestos-plagued Massey Building continues to deteriorate and spark health concerns.


Virginia - United States - Fairfax - Counties - Business

About 1.8 million women have served in the U.S. military, and with 245,000 female soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, it's estimated that within a decade, women will make up 16 percent of all veterans.


United States - Veteran - Military - Organizations - Government

Federal careers expert Derrick T. Dortch answered questions online recently. Following is an excerpt.



Law - Immigration - United States - Services - Lawyers and Law Firms

The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post's On Leadership site jointly produce the Federal Coach, hosted by Tom Fox, director of the partnership's Center for Government Leadership.


Leadership - Business - Management - Sport - Basketball

14% Active-duty troops who are women 17.6% National Guard and reserve troops who are women


People - Women - History - United States - Science and Technology

Joe Davidson is away. The Federal Diary will resume when he returns.

Forty thousand people turned up at Nationals Park on Tuesday night expecting Jim Riggleman to shout "Release the Kraken" as Stephen Strasburg strode to the mound for his 10th start.



Washington Nationals - sport - Miguel Batista - Mike Rizzo - Pitcher

TORONTO -- The Baltimore Orioles got the strong outing they've been clamoring for as Jeremy Guthrie contained a Toronto Blue Jays' offense that had engaged in batting practice against Orioles' pitching over the previous two nights.


Toronto Blue Jays - Baltimore Orioles - Baseball - Sports - Major League

The FBI and the Justice Department are working with the military to investigate the source of the leak of tens of thousands of classified military documents on the Afghan war to WikiLeaks.org, U.S. officials said Wednesday.


Federal Bureau of Investigation - Wikileaks - Afghanistan - United States armed forces - History

Is there an ominous message for President Obama coming from Down Under?


Barack Obama - United States - President - History - Languages

A team of federal investigators known as the "BP squad" is assembling in New Orleans to conduct a wide-ranging criminal probe that will focus on at least three companies and examine whether their cozy relations with federal regulators contributed to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, accordi...



Oil spill - New Orleans - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment

-- In today's Food section, which was printed in advance, Tom Sietsema's First Bite feature on the new restaurant Estadio misspells the first name of the chef. He is Haidar Karoum.


Corrections - Law Enforcement - Law - United States - State Agencies

The Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling:


Legal Information - Law - Sex Offenses - Crime - Child Pornography

Here is where BP chief executive Tony Hayward's executive compensation stands among that of other top U.S. and European oil executives.


Workers' compensation - Law - United States - Services - Lawyers and Law Firms

-- Oil from the BP blowout is degrading rapidly in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and becoming increasingly difficult to find on the water surface, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday. "The light crude oil is biodegrading quickly," Jane Lubchenco...



Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment - BP

CHICAGO -- Bombastic to the end, his voice shifting from a shout to a whisper and back again, the attorney for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich disparaged the federal corruption case against his client on Tuesday and urged the jury to find him not guilty.


United States - Rod Blagojevich - Barack Obama - Lawyer - Governor of Illinois

ITAMAR, WEST BANK -- While Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited Washington this week to talk about peace gestures toward the Palestinians, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was planting a tree in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank -- an indication of permanence that few Palestinians would...


Religion and Spirituality - Jewish - Middle East - Jews - Israel

United States Steel narrowed its second-quarter loss, to $25 million from $392 million a year earlier, as sales more than doubled, but it said there are hurdles ahead for the steel industry and it gave a shaky outlook for the current quarter.


Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms - Revenue - Disney - Xerox

Job worries drove U.S. consumer confidence in July to its lowest reading since February, according to data released Tuesday. One in six people said they were expecting lower income in the next six months, underscoring the precarious state of the economic recovery.



Home - Consumer Information - Advocacy and Protection - United States - Conference Board

As the country marks the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act this week, the Obama administration and Congress are taking steps to give the disabled greater access to federal jobs and technology.


ADA - Programming - Languages - Disability - United States

The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post's On Leadership site jointly produce the Federal Coach, hosted by Tom Fox, director of the partnership's Center for Government Leadership.


Stephen Strasburg - Washington Nationals - Miguel Batista - Mike Rizzo - Atlanta Braves

ASTROS 6, CUBS 1 Brett Myers pitched a complete game, Lance Berkman hit his first grand slam since 2008 and Houston beat Chicago.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation requiring fuller disclosure of the money behind political advertising, derailing a major White House initiative and virtually ensuring an onslaught of attack ads during this year's midterm election season.



United States - Politics - Senate - Government - Legislative Branch

Young Latinos born in the United States are far more likely to use text messages, social networking sites and other digital methods to communicate with their friends than their foreign-born parents or peers, according to two reports released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.


Latino - United States - Business - Government - Education

Oil from the BP blowout is degrading rapidly in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and becoming increasingly difficult to find on the water surface, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Gulf of Mexico - Energy - Business - Oil and Gas

President Obama said Tuesday that the Afghanistan war documents leaked this week raise no fundamentally new issues about the conflict but added that their disclosure "could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations."


Wikileaks - Barack Obama - President - United States - History

Two of the country's largest unions have resolved a vicious feud that roiled organized labor for 18 months, costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, undermining each other's organizing efforts, and distracting it from opportunities presented by Democratic control of Congress and...



Workers United - Work - United States - Labor Movement - Labor

Local governments across the country are facing an intensifying fiscal crisis that is forcing them to make deep cuts in personnel and services just as more hard-pressed residents are seeking their help, according to a report released Tuesday.


United States - Business - Counties - Personal Stories - Religion and Spirituality

Don't expect to hear the words "tea party" at the National Urban League's annual conference in Washington this week.


Business - Thermal Process - Industrial Goods and Services - Arts - Machinery and Tools

Four months after launching Network News, a tool that allows the Post's readers to rank content via Facebook's "Like" button, we're expanding the product and adding new Facebook and Twitter features to bring our articles together with the conversations they create.


Realtime - Arts - Digital media - Newspaper - Twitter

For a man who came to power by harnessing the potential of the Internet, President Obama has been oddly out of sorts in recent days as the medium turned against him.



President - Barack Obama - United States - History - Government

-- Chris Cillizza's Monday Fix column in the July 26 A-section, about political candidates who use their personal wealth in attempts to get elected, incorrectly cited Terry McAuliffe as an example. The column said that McAuliffe spent millions in his unsuccessful 2009 bid for the Democratic...


United States - Crime - Florida - NASDAQ - Eyelid

PARIS -- Falling into step with the United States, European nations significantly broadened economic sanctions against Iran on Monday in what was described as an effort to force Tehran to resume serious negotiations on its disputed nuclear program.


European Union - Government - Iran - U.S. sanctions against Iran - Multilateral

AFGHANISTAN The two U.S. Navy sailors who disappeared Friday left a base on the outskirts of Kabul called Camp Julien, which houses NATO's counterinsurgency academy, and might have taken a wrong turn that sent them toward Logar province, NATO officials said.


NATO - Afghanistan - Taliban - Government - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

The Obama administration and its allies in Congress sought Monday to turn the leak of more than 91,000 classified documents about operations in Afghanistan into an affirmation of the president's decision to shift strategy and boost troop levels in the nearly nine-year-long war.



Pakistan - Afghanistan - Wikileaks - United State - Warfare and Conflict

For more than a year, General Electric has been notable among U.S. corporations for enjoying generally friendly relations with the White House. The company was broadly supportive of President Obama's stimulus efforts, and its chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, sits on a White House economic advisory board.


General Electric - United States - President - History - Obama Barack

As lawmakers and health experts wrestle over whether a controversial chemical, bisphenol-A, should be banned from food and beverage containers, a new analysis by an environmental group suggests Americans are being exposed to BPA through another, surprising route: paper receipts.


Bisphenol A - Business - Materials - Chemicals - Wholesale and Distribution

-- The timetable calls for workers to be in a position Aug. 2 to begin the "static kill" of the blown-out well from the top down and then about five days later to begin the "bottom kill" via the relief well, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad W. Allen said Monday.


Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment - Spill Containment and Remediation

The General Services Administration is attempting to become the first civilian federal agency to codify how workers should behave on Facebook and Twitter, but it faces resistance from one of its unions over the use of social media Web sites.



Facebook - Social media - Business - Marketing and Advertising - Internet Marketing

Former director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center


National Weather Service - Weather - United States - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Government

A report by the Center for American Progress says confidence in the federal government is at an all-time low. What can federal workers do to improve the view of government in the eyes of the American public?


Washington Post - Arts - Literature - World Literature - Sports

A Fairfax man accused of trying to join an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Somalia poses a danger to the community and his family and will remain in jail until trial, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis ordered Monday.


Fairfax - Services - Newspaper - Advertising - Fairfax Media

CARDINALS 4, CUBS 3 (11) Late Sunday Felipe Lopez hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the 11th inning to help St. Louis beat Chicago.

Using heat from a forge that turns out car parts and hand tools, a Michigan manufacturer is developing an energy-efficient way to warm a year-round greenhouse on the company's roof.


Garden - Home - Rooftop - FAQs Help and Tutorials - United States

Yahye Wehelie, 26, born and raised in Fairfax County, was supposed to have been home this spring, telling friends and family about his 18-month stay in Yemen: the technology classes, his quest for a Muslim bride, the wedding and reception that featured a DJ playing music by Michael Jackson and Ce...


Egypt - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Africa - United States - Government

In the first 24 hours after the unauthorized release of more than 91,000 secret documents about the war in Afghanistan, a few things became clear to the officials, lawmakers and experts reading them:


Afghanistan - Wikileaks - Asia - United States - Warfare and Conflict

After more than eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its NATO coalition partners continue to hire private contractors to support their intelligence and counterintelligence analyses and operations in that country.



Afghanistan - United States - Asia - Military - New York Times

Ten years ago, many experts thought you couldn't bring antiretroviral therapy to people with AIDS in poor countries. The drugs cost too much, there weren't enough doctors, the patients wouldn't take the medicines correctly, and the risk of creating a resistant virus was too high.


HIV - AIDS - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Immune Disorders

ISLAMABAD -- A passenger plane crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital Wednesday morning and officials said all 152 people on board -- including two Americans -- were killed.


Pakistan - Jet airliner - Asia - Islamabad - Karachi

KABUL -- The second U.S. sailor who went missing in eastern Afghanistan last week has been found dead and his body recovered, according to sources familiar with the search.


Afghanistan - Asia - NATO - Logar Province - Taliban

KABUL -- President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that the disclosure of the names of Afghan informants in the trove of classified U.S. military documents posted online by the WikiLeaks Web site was "extremely irresponsible and shocking."



Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai - Wikileaks - War in Afghanistan - Warfare and Conflict

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi police say a suicide attacker has driven a bomb-laden minibus into the entrance of an Iraqi army base near Saddam Hussein's hometown, setting off an explosion that killed four soldiers and wounded 10 others.


Iraq - Middle East - Warfare and Conflict - Mike Jackson - Richard Dannatt

LEBANON Lebanon is braced for another political crisis as a special tribunal set up to try the killers of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former prime minister, appears to be heading toward indicting members of Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group.


Lebanon - Middle East - Hezbollah - Syria - Politics

KABUL -- Every day, Gen. David H. Petraeus meets with senior NATO officials at headquarters for a 7:30 a.m. update, and at nearly every session, he returns to an issue that has bedeviled the U.S. campaign for years: Afghan corruption.


Afghanistan - Asia - Government - Aid and Development - United States

Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2001 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by the Pentagon:



Afghanistan - Asia - Warfare and Conflict - Afghanistan Civil War - Improvised explosive device

BEIJING -- Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China on Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods to hit the country in more than decade.


China - Flood - Earth Sciences - Natural Disasters and Hazards - Yangtze River

BOGOTA, Colombia -- An emergency meeting of South American leaders has been scheduled Thursday in Quito, Ecuador to defuse a bitter dispute that began when Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accused his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, of supporting Colombian guerrillas.


Colombia - Venezuela - South America - United States - Business and Economy

BARCELONA, Spain -- Lawmakers in the region of Catalonia thrust a sword deep into Spain's centuries-old tradition of bullfighting, banning the blood-soaked pageant that has fascinated artists and writers from Goya to Hemingway.


Catalonia - Spain - Bullfighting - Animal rights - Barcelona

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A packed bus hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 people aboard, as NATO announced another U.S. service member died in a rapidly rising monthly death toll.



Afghanistan - Asia - Improvised explosive device - Nimruz Province - Kabul

Toyota Corp. said Thursday that it is recalling 412,000 Avalons and Lexuses for steering problems, bringing the number of cars recalled around the world since October to nearly 9 million.


Toyota - Automobile - auto - Toyota Avalon - Makes and Models

Former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling is seeking to be released from prison on bail while an appeals court reconsiders convictions questioned by the Supreme Court.


Supreme Court of the United States - Supreme Court - Enron - Jeffrey Skilling - Law

Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) said Wednesday that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission should drop his push to re-regulate broadband lines.


United States - Government - Cecilia Kang - Facebook - Washington Post

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.



White House - United States - President - Government - Executive Branch

Was Tony Hayward right, after all? Back in May, BP's chief executive told a British newspaper that "the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean," and the vast amounts of oil and chemical dispersants dumped into it were small by comparison. After he said that, BP's well leaked for two more months....


Gulf of Mexico - Energy - Business - Oil and Gas - Operating Companies

The U.S. economy is out of the ditch. But is there enough gas left in the engine to reach highway speed?


Economic - Asia - Politics - Barack Obama - United States

The Obama administration is revising the latest report on its troubled mortgage-relief program, and the changes are likely to show a greater number of borrowers facing foreclosure after having their loans modified.


Education - Methods and Theories - Learning Theories - Digestion - Volkswagen

Employees at seven federal agencies will soon receive notice that they could have a new employer this time next year: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.



United States - Home - Consumer Information - Advocacy and Protection - Business

Energy provider Dominion Resources said Wednesday that a sale of its assets and higher electric demand helped its net income more than triple in the second quarter.


Fannie Mae - Business - Programming - NET - Component Frameworks

As President Obama and his adversaries look for winning themes in the run-up to the November congressional election, both sides are noisily clamoring to prove their support for a critical constituency: America's small-business owners.


Small business - United States - Democratic - Politics - Republican

The FBI and the Justice Department are working with the military to investigate the source of the leak of tens of thousands of classified military documents on the Afghan war to WikiLeaks.org, U.S. officials said Wednesday.


Federal Bureau of Investigation - Wikileaks - Afghanistan - History - United States armed forces

President Obama's message to voters this election year is simple and full of populist zeal: Democrats are on the side of the little guy, not the Wall Street brokers, celebrities and chief executives.



Barack Obama - United States - President - Government - Elections

By the time the U.S. Postal Service announced plans to raise rates earlier this month, an unusual alliance of customers was in place to oppose it.


Mail - United States - Recreation - United States Postal Service - Stamps

President Obama said Wednesday that Republicans should join Democrats in passing legislation to help provide loans to small businesses.


Small business - Business - Barack Obama - United States - President

Small business - Business - Barack Obama - United States - President

TOKYO -- Her new country needs her, her new employer adores her, and Joyce Anne Paulino, who landed here 14 months ago knowing not a word of the language, can now say in Japanese that she'd like very much to stay. But Paulino, 31, a nurse from the Philippines, worries about the odds. To stay in J...



Law - United States - Immigration - Services - Lawyers and Law Firms

A team of federal investigators known as the "BP squad" is assembling in New Orleans to conduct a wide-ranging criminal probe that will focus on at least three companies and examine whether their cozy relations with federal regulators contributed to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, accordi...


Oil spill - Environment - United States - Energy - United States Department of Justice

The Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling:


Legal Information - Law - Sex Offenses - Crime - Child Pornography

New census data released Tuesday confirm a huge spread in the rate of uninsured from state to state and the big difference in impact that can be expected as a result of the health-care overhaul recently passed by Congress.


Census - Government - United States - Department of Commerce - Executive Branch

General Electric agreed Tuesday to pay $23.4 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint that GE bribed Iraqi government officials to win contracts to supply medical and water purification equipment under the U.N. Oil for Food program.



General Electric - Business - Oil-for-Food Programme - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Allegedly Unethical Firms

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation requiring fuller disclosure of the money behind political advertising, derailing a major White House initiative and virtually ensuring an onslaught of attack ads during this year's midterm election season.


Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate - United States - Democratic - Senate - Government

Two of the country's largest unions have resolved a vicious feud that roiled organized labor for 18 months, costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, undermining each other's organizing efforts, and distracting it from opportunities presented by Democratic control of Congress and...


Workers United - United States - Work - Labor Movement - Labor

BP said Tuesday that it plans to cut its U.S. tax bill by $9.9 billion, or about half the amount pledged to aid victims of the disaster, by deducting costs related to the oil spill.


BP - Tax - United States - Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico

The forthcoming electric car the Chevrolet Volt will cost $41,000, General Motors announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above those of similarly sized conventional autos.



ChevroletVolt - General Motors - Chevrolet - ChevyVolt - Recreation

BP gave investors a glimpse of its future Tuesday, one that will feature a new American chief executive, slimmed-down operations, and $32.2 billion or more in payments to clean up and compensate people affected by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


BP - United States - Tony Hayward - Gulf of Mexico - TNK-BP

A panel of world financial officials has reached "broad agreement" on new rules to govern the global banking system but has postponed some key elements for as long as seven years while the impact is studied, the Switzerland-based group said Monday.


Business - Financial Services - Banking Services - Banks and Institutions - Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

When Democratic Rep. John Boccieri went home to Ohio early this year to talk with voters in his Canton-based district, he figured he would have to do battle with at least some constituents over his support for health-care reform. And the economic stimulus. And the auto company bailouts.


Energy - United States - Rust Belt - Democratic - Technology

Some suggested measures to control systemic risk by limiting credit and asset bubbles:



Politics - Term Limits - Campaigns and Elections - Election Reform - Games

The European Union opened two antitrust probes of IBM on Monday, accusing the U.S. technology giant of abusing its dominant position in the mainframe computer market. One investigation stems from complaints by IBM competitors T3 and Turbo Hercules, who say that IBM "shuts out providers of emulation...


IBM - European Union - Operating system - Microsoft - European Commission

He fell just short of winning the White House in 2004. Four years later, he was rumored to be a leading contender to be secretary of state, until President-elect Barack Obama stunned everyone by tapping his former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.


Climate change - Environment - John Kerry - Activism - Organizations

While the nation's housing market struggles amid a sudden downdraft that has once again battered sales, the Washington region appears relatively insulated and poised for a turnaround.


Real estate economics - Business - Residential - Real Estate - Housing

With powerful senators watching closely, federal investigators search high and low for evidence of insider trading in shares of Microsoft. One of Wall Street's best-known hedge fund managers is targeted, but the feds can't find proof. Years pass, and they close the case without filing charges.



Business - Arts - Literature - Whistleblower - Internal Revenue Service

-- Chris Cillizza's Monday Fix column in the July 26 A-section, about political candidates who use their personal wealth in attempts to get elected, incorrectly cited Terry McAuliffe as an example. The column said that McAuliffe spent millions in his unsuccessful 2009 bid for the Democratic...


Corrections - Law Enforcement - Law - State Agencies - United States

PARIS -- Falling into step with the United States, European nations significantly broadened economic sanctions against Iran on Monday in what was described as an effort to force Tehran to resume serious negotiations on its disputed nuclear program.


European Union - Government - Iran - Multilateral - U.S. sanctions against Iran

For more than a year, General Electric has been notable among U.S. corporations for enjoying generally friendly relations with the White House. The company was broadly supportive of President Obama's stimulus efforts, and its chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, sits on a White House economic advisory board.


General Electric - United States - Barack Obama - President - History

As lawmakers and health experts wrestle over whether a controversial chemical, bisphenol-A, should be banned from food and beverage containers, a new analysis by an environmental group suggests Americans are being exposed to BPA through another, surprising route: paper receipts.



Business - Pulp and Paper - Materials - Paper - Bisphenol A

CHICAGO -- As governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich was a bully who rigged state business to build his campaign treasury and line his pockets, a federal prosecutor said Monday, urging jurors to find Blagojevich guilty of two dozen corruption charges.


Rod Blagojevich - Barack Obama - United States - United States Senate - Federal Bureau of Investigation

Americans might be counting on the day when home and retirement-fund values start to rise again, but anyone expecting to benefit from a future boom in prices should take note: Economic policymakers around the world are looking for ways to make sure that doesn't happen, or at least not with such i...


Buzzword - Music and Audio - Multimedia - Buzz - Business

Tony Hayward is about to get his life back. According to multiple news reports, the embattled CEO is expected to step down after the board discusses and approves his exit in a meeting today. One of the biggest questions many will be asking: What took them so long?


Tony Hayward - BP - United States - Organizations - Gulf of Mexico

For a London-based petroleum company that relies largely on oil produced in the United States and Russia, Robert Dudley might be just the ticket.



United States - Business - Chief executive officer - Tony Hayward - BP

Wikileaks' decision to transfer tens of thousands of raw classified field reports on the Afghan war to the New York Times and two European news organizations reflects the growing strength and sophistication of the small nonprofit Web site, founded three years ago to fight what it considers excess...


Wikileaks - United States - Julian Assange - War in Afghanistan - Classified information

Nonprofit health insurers may be setting aside unnecessarily large surpluses even as some of them continue to raise premiums, according to an analysis by a consumer rights group.


Insurance - Consumer organization - Home - Health - Consumer Information

-- Thomson Financial


Sports - Teams - United States - Security - Stock

These firms recently filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court's local clerk of court offices.



Bankruptcy - United States - Law - Services - Lawyers and Law Firms

CSC of Falls Church named Debbie Granberry vice president of business development for its North American public sector civil and health services group; Kristine A. Burnell vice president of business development for its North American public sector applied technology group; and Kenneth W. Deutsch...


Windows - Stock - Chief executive officer - United States - Press release

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United States - Apple - IPhone - Wi-Fi - Education

As the first reports of the Gulf of Mexico oil-rig explosion trickled in to BP's London headquarters in April, BP chief executive Tony Hayward wondered whether to fly immediately to the United States.


United States - Business - Chief executive officer - Tony Hayward - BP

PORTO DO ACU, BRAZIL -- Here along the golden sands that grace the Atlantic coastline 175 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, China is forging a new economic reality.



Brazil - South America - Travel and Tourism - Government - Travel Services

Hundreds of angry residents of Bell, Calif., marched to the homes and businesses of city officials of the modest blue-collar Los Angeles suburb Sunday in a protest sparked by the sky-high salaries of three recently departed administrators.


Bell - City council - Los Angeles - United States - Counties

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner took the lead Sunday in continuing the Obama administration's push for extending middle-class tax cuts while allowing similar cuts for the nation's wealthiest individuals to expire in January.


United States - Tax - Taxation - Accounting - United States Secretary of the Treasury

In February, when unpredictable Sen. Jim Bunning single-handedly stalled extensions of unemployment benefits for several days, his Republican colleagues quickly abandoned him, worried that the GOP would be cast as the party against helping people who are out of work.


United States - Politics - Republican - Parties - Opposing Views

Even as the public's disdain for politics and politicians rises to historic levels, a new crop of millionaires -- and billionaires -- is spending freely from their fortunes in hopes of winning elected office.



United States - The Fix - Politics - Business - Government

PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA. -- Ten minutes is usually all it takes for Susan Estler to find an inviting beach scene, snap it with her iPhone camera, and blast it to roadside digital billboards from Baltimore to Atlanta.


Environment - Energy - Oil spill - Petroleum in the Environment - Spill Containment and Remediation

Steven A. Museles Position: Co-chief executive and board member of CapitalSource, a Chevy Chase-based commercial lender that provides financial products to middle-market businesses.


Business - CapitalSource - United States - California - Entrepreneur

My law school days were an exciting time on Wall Street. There were hostile takeovers, exciting mergers and acquisition transactions and leveraged buyouts. Corporate and securities law was an attractive area to focus on, so I stuck with it.


United States - Business - CapitalSource - Employment - Southern California

In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers.



United States - Immigration - Law - Anti-Immigration - Services

Tony Hayward's departure from his job as BP's chief executive will be at the center of the agenda when the company's board of directors meets Monday night, according to a source close to the company.


Tony Hayward - BP - United States - Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico

KENNER, LA. -- If there is no smoking gun in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, it is because there is smoke coming from so many places.


Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment - Spill Containment and Remediation

President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress are setting the stage for a high-stakes battle over taxes in the final weeks before the November congressional elections, betting that their plan to eliminate tax breaks for the wealthy will resonate with voters who have lost houses and jobs to w...


Tax cut - United States - Tax - Republican - Politics

DENVER -- When Matt Cook was coaxed out of early retirement to become Colorado's chief revenue enforcer three years ago, he assumed his time would be spent overseeing the casinos, liquor stores and car dealerships he had been keeping an eye on for much of his career.



Medical cannabis - Colorado - United States - Health - Cannabis

DETROIT -- Among workers building the Jeep Grand Cherokee here, there are few obvious distinctions. Clutching lunch sacks and mini-coolers, they trudge together through the turnstiles at the plant's main gate each day to tinker with the same vehicles, along the same assembly line, performing the...


United States - Canadian Auto Workers - Government - Assembly line - General Motors

The sun never rises for BP. Or so it seems. After it had finally stanched the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico last week, this week brought news that the "cap" it placed on the gushing wellhead might be producing "seepage" elsewhere on the sea floor. From triumph to tribulation, over the course ...


United Airlines - Los Angeles - Denver International Airport - Federal Aviation Administration - Washington Dulles International Airport

If he had his wish, Alex Maltby would be working with autistic children as a classroom aide, the best job he ever had. Instead, he is at his mother's kitchen table in Silver Spring pondering job possibilities -- 33 years old and visually impaired, looking for a way to make a living.


Disability - Business - Unemployment - Federal Reserve System - Sports

LAS VEGAS -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stepped into a convention of liberal activists here Saturday with a blunt appeal: The gates to a progressive agenda have opened under Democratic control, she said, and they will close if Republicans seize power in the fall midterm elections.



Democratic - United States - Politics - Nancy Pelosi - Parties

CORNWALL, N.Y. The hardest part was northbound on the New York State Thruway, especially near the Sloatsburg Service Area, where state troopers are especially active. I dropped the Mustang's six-speed manual transmission into fourth gear and prayed the car wouldn't stray past the posted 65-mph li...


Ford - Mustang - Makes and Models - Recreation - Autos

Your next boss might want to know more than your last one about your personality, thought processes, motivations, work style, values and aptitude for the job. Or perhaps she just needs to screen out three-quarters of the applicants quickly. Either way, pre-employment testing is gaining as a tool ...


Tests - Programming - Business - Commercial Services - Security

Lily Garcia has advised companies on employment law and human resources for more than 10 years. This is adapted from a recent online discussion.


British Indian Ocean Territory - Asia - Jerry Garcia - Diego Garcia - Amir Bar-Lev

N ew york -- In hindsight, Scott Feldman's decision to sell his first home in late 2006 could have been a case study in a textbook called "How to Time the Real Estate Market."



Real estate - United States - Business - Services - Property Law and Real Estate

Sometime this spring, Democrats stopped calling Sen. Chris Dodd's bill "financial reform" and started calling it "Wall Street reform." Most of the headlines and news releases on the sweeping legislation focused on the well-heeled, white-collar, upper crust of finance -- investment banks,...


Loan - Payday loan - Business - Financial Services - Payday Advance Services

Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest mutual fund, takes a seat in a conference room and makes a confession. Overlooking the ocean at the headquarters of Pacific Investment Management Co., Gross describes missteps that doomed his bond firm's earlier experiment with equities.


Pimco - Bond - Business - Investing - Stocks and Bonds

Instead of focusing on the politics behind the firing and subsequent redemption of Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod, we should consider what she was trying to tell us when she addressed the NAACP.


Economic - Social Sciences - Consumption and Wealth - Inequality - Math

97% of Pimco's fixed-income rivals have fared worse than its signature fund has in the past decade.



Business - Pimco - Mutual fund - Investment management - Hong Kong

It's a mess across the pond. The problems facing Europe and the euro cannot be papered over with the rescue package of nearly $1 trillion the European Union cobbled together for Greece, Spain and Portugal. Not only are the "Club Med countries" spending too much, they are not competitive in world...


European Union - Government - Multilateral - Business - Investing

Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, has earned a reputation for spot-on analysis of the stock market and the economy as well as having a knack for connecting with individual investors.


Charles Schwab Corporation - Liz Ann Sonders - Wall Street - Business - Stock market

The oil and gas industry's offshore safety and environmental record in the Gulf of Mexico has become a key point of debate over future drilling, but that record has been far worse than is commonly portrayed by many industry leaders and lawmakers.


Oil spill - Energy - Environment - Petroleum in the Environment - Business

EARNINGS Ford posted a strong second-quarter profit Friday, its fifth straight quarterly profit, but trimmed its U.S. sales forecast and predicted weaker results in the second half as the economy slowly recovers.



McDonald - Business - United States - Middle East - Thomson Reuters

Sunrise Senior Living said Friday that it has agreed to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission over an investigation into the McLean company's financial reporting from 2003 to 2005.


Sunrise Senior Living - Business - Real estate - United States - Seniors

More than 160 distressed homeowners lined up in downtown Washington before dawn Friday in hopes of obtaining better mortgage terms, with help from housing advocacy group Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America.


United States - Mortgage - Business - Financial Services - JPMorgan Chase

Federal investigators have identified about 20 Pentagon employees and contractors who allegedly bought and downloaded online child pornography and in some cases used their government-issued computers to view the illegal material.


Child pornography - Crime - Sex Offenses - Legal Information - Pornography

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Friday named a top staffer at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to be acting director of the agency when John C. Dugan leaves office next month.



John C. Dugan - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency - United States - John Dugan - Presidency of Barack Obama

Facebook may be growing like gangbusters, but the question clouding the storybook rise of Silicon Valley's latest phenomenon is whether it can figure out how to make money at the same pace.


Facebook - Social network - Business - Online Communities - Rockyou

First, the cellphone industry told San Francisco it wouldn't host its annual trade show there again. Now, it's suing.


San Francisco - CTIA - United States - California - San Francisco Bay Area

Federal officials who inspected a Johnson & Johnson manufacturing plant that makes Mylanta, Pepcid and other popular heartburn medicines unearthed quality control problems, chaotic recordkeeping and complaints by consumers that medicines were either ineffective or contained pills from different...


Johnson & Johnson - United States - Tylenol - Pennsylvania - Food and Drug Administration

LONDON -- A broad probe into the health of Europe's financial sector found virtually every major bank in the region fit to withstand severe economic shocks and declared only a handful of smaller institutions at risk.



European Union - Mental Health - Health - Stress - Business

The federal budget deficit, which hit a record $1.4 trillion last year, will exceed that figure this year and again in 2011, the White House predicted Friday, providing fresh ammunition to Republicans who are hammering President Obama for all the red ink as they campaign to regain control of Cong...


Deficit - United States - Economic - Government - National Budget

The government's pay czar scolded 17 banks for handing out $1.6 billion in excess executive pay while benefiting from taxpayer bailout funds at the height of the financial crisis. But he will not force banks to return any of the money.


Kenneth Feinberg - Business - Executive compensation - Financial Services - United States

Corporate America, like Massey Energy's CEO, has lost its sense of responsibility.


Massey Energy - Technology - Energy - Education - Oceania

More than 160 homeowners lined up in downtown Washington before dawn Friday in hopes of obtaining better terms on their home loans with help from the housing advocacy group Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America.



Loan - Financial Services - Business - Mortgage - Processing

The housing bust isn't over, but the worst is past, according to economists participating in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce panel this week.


Housing - Real estate - Business and Economy - Affordable and Low Income Housing - Property

More than a dozen companies that received federal bailout money handed out $1.6 billion in excess executive compensation at the height of the financial crisis, according to a report to be released Friday by the government's "pay czar."


Business - Investing - Mutual fund - Funds - Law

Education Secretary Arne Duncan proposed Thursday that for-profit colleges be required to show through certain new measures that their graduates are not saddled with too much debt, an initiative he said was meant to protect students from "a few bad actors" in the industry.


Education - Colleges and Universities - United States - Directories - For-profit school

Looks as though Santa's summer vacation is getting cut short.



Black Friday - Business - Christmas - Holidays - Consumer Goods and Services

Capital One of McLean posted a second-quarter profit Thursday as it set aside less money to cover bad loans. For the three months ending June 30, Capital One earned $608 million ($1.33 a share). That compared with a loss of $277 million (66 cents), a year earlier, when the bank repaid the government...


United States - Newspaper - Magazines and E-zines - Oceania - Digestion

Merely days old, the financial regulatory law has already generated its first real-world hiccup.


Business - United States - Ruby - Old School (film) - Publishing

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told lawmakers Thursday that he will use his regulatory authority to impose strict new rules to remedy the revolving-door problems in his department.


Business - Petroleum industry - Barack Obama - United States House Committee on Natural Resources - Bureau of Land Management

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Thursday rejected calls from some Democrats to extend tax cuts for the nation's top earners past their 2010 expiration date, saying the fragile recovery is no reason to avoid raising taxes on the wealthy.



United States Secretary of the Treasury - United States - Tax - Timothy Geithner - Politics

Sales of previously owned homes dipped in June for the second consecutive month and are expected to keep dropping at least through the rest of the summer, now that a lucrative homebuyer tax credit has expired.


Tax credit - United States - Business - Accounting - National Association of Realtors

Deputy Treasury secretary, 48 -- Education: Yale, BA; University of Oxford, MS; Yale Law, JD. -- What he does: Second in command at Treasury. Works directly for Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. -- Prior experience: In 2008, joined the White House as deputy assistant to the president and de...

More than a dozen firms that received federal bailout money handed out $1.6 billion in excess executive compensation at the height of the financial crisis, according to a report to be released Friday by the government's "pay czar."


Kenneth Feinberg - Promotion - Web Design and Development - Pay-Per-Click Advertising - Goldman Sachs

BEIJING -- Hundreds of firefighters and civilian volunteers used bare hands, chopsticks and plastic garbage bags Thursday to wage a low-tech battle against a giant oil slick spreading off China's northeastern coast.



Oil spill - Environment - Energy - China - Petroleum in the Environment

Is Hungary suffering Europe's first case of budget-cutting fatigue?


Hungary - International Monetary Fund - European Union - Government - Politics of Hungary