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Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli has concluded that some senior Marine officers were negligent in failing to investigate the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November, officials said.
White House officials are planning for new Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to take up the president's antitax crusade and swiftly move for new tax cuts and a possible major reform of the system, including the curtailing or elimination of the alternative minimum tax.
American companies continued to hire workers at a solid pace last month, but at a slower rate than economists had been expecting. The Labor Department said this morning that nonfarm payrolls grew by 121,000 in June. The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.6 percent. Many analysts had been expecting job growth in the 175,000 to 200,000 range. Expectations got a real boost earlier this week when the ADP employment report—developed by Automatic Data Processing and Macroeconomic Advisers and covering some 225,000 companies—showed an increase of 368,000 jobs in June. That was the most in its five-year history.
As U.S. and other intelligence agencies scrutinize North Korean preparations for a possible long-range missile launch, the Bush administration is readying a response if North Korea does fire – and puzzling over the rogue nation's motives.
AP - Israeli tanks and troops clashed with militants in eastern Gaza early Saturday, Palestinian security officials said, as Israel broadened an incursion to force the release of a captured soldier.
AP - Over Chinese and Russian objections, Japan introduced a draft Security Council resolution Friday that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its series of rocket test-launches and also order a halt to its development of ballistic missiles.
AP - Two of the four suicide bombers who attacked London last July 7 spent time at an al-Qaida camp to prepare themselves for a suicide mission, the deputy leader of the terror network claimed in a video Friday.
U.S. and international authorities say they disrupted a plot by eight terrorists to blow up a commuter train tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, the FBI announced Friday. FBI Assistant Director Mershon said the target was one of the PATH rail tubes running under the Hudson River. He added the plan was "what we believe was the real deal," a scheme involving al Qaeda on three continents.
California-born al Qaeda member Adam Gadahn speaks out against U.S. troops on a video that has been released by As-Sahab, the terror network's video-production outfit.
Stocks tumbled Friday, with the Dow and Nasdaq closing down over 1 percent, after disappointing corporate news and the monthly jobs report pointed to slowing growth and rising inflationary pressure in the world's largest economy.