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  • AIG Asks Recipients To Give Back Part Of Bonus
    House lawmakers grilled AIG Chief Executive Edward Liddy on Wednesday about the $165 million in bonuses paid out to executives at the firm. AIG is a major bailout beneficiary, and the bonuses have provoked outrage from congressional members as well as the public. Liddy says he has asked some of the employees to return part of the bonus.
  • Layoffs Slow But Jobless Rate Still Higher In April
    The Labor Department reported Friday that the pace of layoffs slowed in April. Employers cut 539,000 jobs — the fewest in six months. However, the unemployment rate climbed to 8.9 percent.
  • Sanjoy Sachdev founded the Dehli-based Love Commandos.
    He was hailed as a crusader for love. Now he's accused of being a villain
    Sanjoy Sachdev was lauded as India's cupid. But Sachdev and his group have became villains in the eyes of many of the people they promised to help.
  • Violence Breaks Out Ahead of Nepalese Elections
    Nine people have reportedly been killed in Nepal in the run-up to Wednesday's elections. The elections, the first in seven years, are for relatively minor municipal jobs. But they've become the focus of a worsening standoff between the embattled king and mainstream political parties and Maoist insurgents.
  • Information Surfaces on Bhutto's Final Moments
    Thousands turned out to pay respects to Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who was buried in a family mausoleum near Karachi. New information has come to light about the final moments before her motorcade was attacked Thursday. Her assassination set off riots, but the violence seems to be subsiding.
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom shakes hands with Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, D-Los Angeles County, after signing Gabriel's bill that raises taxes on guns and ammunition in Sacramento on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023.
    California is first state to levy a tax on guns and ammo to fund safety programs
    New law will impose an additional 11% in addition to federal tax. It's one of nearly two dozen gun laws signed into law on Tuesday. but Newsom acknowledges some might not survive legal challenges.
  • Emergency responders work the scene of semitruck crash in Teutopolis, Ill., on Saturday. Federal regulators confirmed they are reviewing the crash of a semitruck carrying a toxic substance in central Illinois, resulting in "multiple fatalities" and dangerous air conditions that prompted the evacuation of area residents.
    A truck crash in Illinois kills 5 and forces temporary evacuation over ammonia leak
    The crash caused a large plume of anhydrous ammonia that caused dangerous air conditions in Teutopolis. Residents were later allowed to return to their homes after being evacuated.
  • A destroyed house sits in muddy debris near Oso, Wash., on Sunday. A rain-soaked hillside let loose a wall of mud Saturday, inundating neighborhoods along the Stillaguamish River's North Fork.
    14 Known To Have Died, But Mudslide's Toll May Go Higher
    In Washington state, a county official says scores of people remain unaccounted for. A wall of mud swept across the Stillaguamish River on Saturday into a community north of Seattle.
  • The 1987 presidential campaign of Democrat Gary Hart was derailed by revelations of an affair with model Donna Rice.
    Political Affairs Now An Open Book
    Allegations of a long-term affair involving Herman Cain offer evidence that presidential candidates can't count on their private lives staying private.
  • The 1987 presidential campaign of Democrat Gary Hart was derailed by revelations of an affair with model Donna Rice.
    Political Affairs Now An Open Book
    Allegations of a long-term affair involving Herman Cain offer evidence that presidential candidates can't count on their private lives staying private.
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