The plan is a surprising and highly challenging new effort to reverse the tide of sectarian cleansing that has left the capital bloodied and Balkanized.
The push for a U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, already under fire in South Korea, is being viewed skeptically by U.S. manufacturers, especially carmakers, according to industry and congressional officials.
Emboldened with ideas aired at two private retreats, Senate Republicans are planning as soon as Thursday to release their 2007–2008 legislative agenda, which they hope will help the 21 GOP senators up for re-election next year keep their seats.
AP - About 13,000 Chrysler workers or 16 percent of the work force will lose their jobs under a plan the struggling automaker said Wednesday would cut costs and return its U.S. operations to profitability by next year.
AP - Sleet stung the faces of pedestrians and snow and ice coated windshields and streets Wednesday as a Valentine's Day blizzard roared out of the Midwest and shut down parts of the Northeast.
AP - A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran on Wednesday, killing 11 of them and wounding 31. An al-Qaida-linked Sunni militant group reportedly claimed responsibility.
Chrysler, whose year-long slump has dragged it down to fourth place among U.S. automakers, announced plans today to cut 13,000 jobs through 2009 as it tries to stem widening losses. The cuts represent 16 percent of the staff at the North American unit of DaimlerChrysler.
The uncle of an Iraqi-American U.S. soldier abducted last October in Baghdad has identified his missing nephew in a video posted on a militant Shiite Web site. U.S. Army Sgt. Ahmed K. Altaie was serving as a translator and is listed as "duty status whereabouts unknown."