Lowe's Cos. Inc. avoided joining the home-building industry's walking wounded this morning, reporting record earnings for the quarter and beating some of Wall Street's expectations. But the world's second-largest home improvement chain retailer, behind only Home Depot, still showed some vulnerability to a wobbly housing market.
Thanksgiving is a holiday that reminds Americans about the true joys of living in this wonderful country. A Chinese immigrant friend of mine captured it with charming awkwardness when he referred to the holiday as "Thank-you-giving."
AP - In an apparent bid to counter U.S. influence in the region, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited his Iraqi and Syrian counterparts to a weekend summit in Tehran to tackle the chaos in Iraq, Iraqi lawmakers said Monday.
AP - A school bus packed with high school students smashed through a guardrail along an overpass Monday and crashed nose-first 30 feet below, killing three teenage girls and injuring at least 30 others, some critically, authorities said.
AP - The Bush administration cast a wary eye Monday on signs that Iran and Syria were taking a more active diplomatic role in Iraq, even as debate in the U.S. centered on how many troops to keep in the war.
A third high school student has died after a school bus plunged 30 feet off the side of a highway overpass in Huntsville, Alabama, according to local officials. "The students, when they were hurled over the side of I-565 ... they were just tossed around inside the school bus," police spokesman Wendell Johnson said. A witness told police it appeared that a small car struck the bus.
Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday the House Democratic Party leadership would not support a call by Rep. Charles Rangel to reinstate the draft.