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E-mails show Goldman boasting as meltdown unfolds
NEW YORK (AP) -- E-mails released Saturday morning show top executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boasting about the money the firm was making as the national housing market collapsed in 2007. The e-mails suggest Goldman benefited from its bets that securities backed by subprime mortgages would lose value. The messages seem to contradict [...]
Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant
MADRID (AP) -- A hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a man a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features after he lost his face in an accident. Other transplant experts lauded the surgery but were not sure it could technically be called 'full-face.' The operation was carried [...]
Oil rig explodes; 11 missing, 17 hurt
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Rescuers in helicopters and boats searched the Gulf of Mexico for 11 missing workers Wednesday after a thunderous explosion rocked a huge oil drilling platform and lit up the night sky with a pillar of flame. Seventeen people were injured, four critically. The blast Tuesday night aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig 50 miles off [...]
Oklahoma City marks 15 years since bombing
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Survivors and family members of those who died in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are gathering to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the attack. Hundreds of people are attending Monday's ceremony at the Oklahoma City National Memorial to remember the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995, [...]
White Supremacists, demonstrators square off in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in downtown Los Angeles Saturday as hundreds of counter-protesters gathered to shout them down in a tense standoff that included several arrests, thrown rocks and police in riot gear. Police officers stood between the white supremacists and counter-demonstrators [...]
Lessons learned shape Obama’s court pick
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Expect a fight. Enlist supporters but keep them in line. Protect secrecy. Reach out to opponents even though you can't woo them. Inside the White House, those are some of the lessons learned from the selection and confirmation of President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee last year. With a vacancy coming this summer [...]
Obama Extends Health Care Rights to Gay Partners
President Barack Obama exits Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, April 15, 2010, after returning from a day trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a move hailed as a step toward fairness for same-sex couples, President Barack Obama is ordering that nearly all hospitals allow patients to say who has [...]
Tea Party Rally upbraids ‘gangster government’
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against "gangster government" and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and troubling to those in the loose movement. Several thousand rallied in Washington's Freedom Plaza in the shadow of the [...]
Foreclosure Rates Surge, Biggest Jump in 5 years
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A record number of U.S. homes were lost to foreclosure in the first three months of this year, a sign banks are starting to wade through the backlog of troubled home loans at a faster pace, according to a new report. RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday that the number of U.S. homes taken over by banks jumped 35 percent in the [...]
Update: China Quake kills 617
XINING, China (AP) -- China poured workers and equipment into a mountainous Tibetan region Thursday in a bid to find survivors more than a day after strong earthquakes killed more than 600 people and injured thousands. The series of quakes flattened buildings across remote western Yushu county and sent survivors, many bleeding from their [...]
