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At the 22nd Annual Governor’s Ag Conference, several presenters from Nebraska and other states offered insight about the future of the agriculture.
The McDonald’s Corporation , the fast-food chain, said on Monday that sales at restaurants open at least a year climbed 4.8 percent in February on strong overseas growth and a small rise in United States sales.
Stocks traded in a tight range Monday after a new round of mergers and acquisitions raised hopes for the economy.
The European Union plans to create a European Monetary Fund to better coordinate the economies of the 16 countries that use the euro and prevent financial debacles such as the Greek debt crisis from undermining the credibility of Europe’s single currency.
Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 36 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
A fast-paced high school tournament basketball game in Rochester, New York took an interesting turn at the last second.
A child apparently directed pilots last month from the air traffic control center at John F. Kennedy Airport, one of the nation’s busiest airports, according to audio clips.
TERM LIMITS for all! No more career politicians! No more ’special’ benefits like premium healthcare insurance and read more retirement programs.
Last update: March 1, 2010 - 11:03 AM Monday morning, Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared unworried and unpressured by the coming afternoon vote to override his veto of General Assistance Medical Care spending.
One of the memes going around Washington is that Obama’s biggest political problem is that he doesn’t scare anybody .
One runway is causing a whole lot of problems at one of the nation’s most delay-plagued airports.
Al Gore now says the Himalayan glaciers story was just ‘one small error’. In fact, it was every green’s trump card.
Bill Hardiman says he is running for the congressional seat being vacated by fellow Republican Vernon Ehlers .
President Barack Obama hasn’t kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday after the 48-year-old’s first medical checkup as commander in chief.
Make no mistake: If President Barack Obama actually wanted to be the post-partisan agent of Washington change, his health-care summit would have looked a whole lot different than the meeting he recently held across the street from the White House.
His Republican vote is news in the town where the partisan divide is colder and harder than a steel rod buried in Arctic ice.
After years of a stagnant economy, furloughs are nothing new to private-sector workers - including newspaper reporters! - and even many state and local employees.
But Ryan is right . Rep. Paul Ryan will be among the three dozen lawmakers at a White House health care summit Thursday.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda apologized personally and repeatedly Wednesday to the United States and millions of American Toyota owners for safety lapses that have led to deaths and widespread recalls.
The Senate voted Wednesday to extend for a year key provisions of the nation’s counterterrorism surveillance law that are scheduled to expire at the end of the month.
Toyota Motor Corp chief Akio Toyoda stepped to center stage in a sprawling U.S. investigation of the Japanese automaker’s safety crisis, apologizing to consumers and pledging reforms to skeptical lawmakers.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that U.S. diplomacy has moved China closer to the American view that Iran’s continuing refusal to come clean on its nuclear program demands tough new U.N. sanctions.
This June 10, 2006 photo shows a 1996 Camry driven by Koua Fong Lee that crashed into the back of an Oldsmobile Ciera in St.
The Obama administration will work with Congress in developing a plan for sending astronauts to Mars and will release it in the a oecoming months,a the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today.
House Communications Subcommittee member Greg Walden , a former broadcaster and one of the industry’s strongest champions on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, is taking a leave of absence to push for House reforms as leader of the GOP Congressional Transparency Initiative.
Something has gone very wrong. Was it just a year ago that Democrats assumed more control in Washington than the party has had in my lifetime? It was.
Tom Davis never saw the bomb that destroyed his humvee as he rounded a corner in Ramadi just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006.
Bharti Airtel, the largest Indian mobile phone company by subscribers, confirmed on Monday that it is in talks to buy the African assets of the Kuwaiti telecom company Zain for about $10.7 billion.
Finance ministers in the euro zone are expected to recommend Vitor Manuel Ribeiro Constancio, the governor of the Bank of Portugal, as the next vice president of the European Central Bank on Monday.
If the German government wants to buy account data stolen from Swiss banks, then the Swiss accounts of German officials and other public figures should also be exposed, according to the head of an influential lobby that represents the interests of Swiss taxpayers.
The Bert Wasserman department of economics and finance in the Zicklin School of Business is enabling students to develop newly demanded skills in the banking industry through intense courses offered in a range of topics in finance.
Abu Dhabi: Nissan has the potential to double its market share in the Middle East but needs to offer the consumer more smaller and cheaper cars, Renault-Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn said yesterday.
Stock futures are pointing to a higher open Tuesday as hopes grow the European Union will provide Greece with some support for its mounting debt burden.
As Senate Democrats look to pass a jobs bill before Presidents Day, experts say the debate is an opportunity to see if calls for bipartisanship will be answered.
“I am not an ideologue,” protested Barack Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last month.
Toyota will recall 437,000 hybrid cars globally to fix faulty braking systems on four models, including the Prius, adding to almost 8 million vehicles the company is repairing for separate defects.
The president’s proposed a package of small business tax breaks and new lending that he hopes will appeal to Democrats and Republicans.
It’s the Year of the Tiger, but Chinese fortune tellers say it’ll be a rough patch for the world’s most famous one: disgraced golfer Tiger Woods.
An effort is under way to have an upstate New York post office named after a 19-year-old Marine recently killed in action in Afghanistan.
Congressman Bob Brady says “There will never be another Jack Murtha,” adding “He went out on top of his game.” The Pennsylvania Democrat died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan.
Feb. 9–During his lengthy career in Congress, U.S. Rep. John Murtha earned the respect of his colleagues and even his political rivals.
Some New Hampshire business owners who are against a pending tax are holding a news conference in favor of a bill that would repeal the action.
Among states, California arguably has the most to gain from an overhaul of its health care system: it has the greatest number of uninsured residents in the country and the largest public insurance program for the poor, which struggles to serve 6.5 million people while reimbursing doctors at one of the nation’s lowest rates.
” The nation cannot afford Congress continuing to borrow and print its way into a financial Apocalypse to pay for unsustainable entitlement programs.
State Legislature needs more candidates. The filing deadline for the upcoming primary and general elections passed at midnight Jan.
Longtime legislators Mollohan, Rahall face challenges. American voters chose change in 2008.
Comic Jon Stewart told Bill O’Reilly that the “no spin zone” ringleader had become the voice of sanity on Fox News Channel, although “that’s like being the thinnest kid at fat camp.” The host of “The Daily Show” and Fox’s kingpin exchanged some good-natured shots Wednesday during Stewart’s appearance on a network he relishes mocking.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed concerns Wednesday about the economic recovery during a ceremonial swearing-in for another four-year term.
So the candidate filings are done, or mostly done, unless you mailed yours from someplace other-worldly like Itmann.
By Ben Pershing President Obama is counseling his fellow Democrats to stay aggressive on both the political and legislative fronts, even as the party is divided internally over how to proceed on their biggest priorities.
