SEATTLE – Machinists at Boeing Co. (search) approved a new labor contract on Thursday, ending a four-week strike that shut down the company’s commercial airplane assembly plants. About 80 percent of those voting accepted the three-year pact, said Mark Blondin, president of Machinists District Lodge 751 (search). Approval cleared the …
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Eating dinner as a family can help kids long after the meal is over, a new study shows. The report comes from The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA). It’s based on national phone survey of 1,000 teens and 829 parents of teens. Teens who …
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WASHINGTON – A former Bush administration official was arrested Monday on charges he made false statements and obstructed a federal investigation into his dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff (search), according to court documents and government officials. David Safavian (search), then-chief of staff of the General Services Administration (search) and a …
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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration on Tuesday dismissed North Korea’s (search) demand for civilian nuclear reactors and appeared confident about a final agreement to end that nation’s nuclear weapons program (search). Still, the United States and South Korea (search) foresee difficulties. The next round of negotiations is planned for early …
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HOUSTON – The city of Houston opened two more giant centers for victims of Hurricane Katrina (search) on Friday after refugees filled the Astrodome to capacity. As shelters in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio filled up, the governor’s office reached out to the state’s mid-sized cities to find additional space. …
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NEW YORK – Visa USA Inc. (search) said Thursday it is delaying by three months its plan to cut ties with CardSystems Solutions Inc. (search) , a payment processor hit by a large security breach earlier this year. Visa said the delay was for “the sole purpose” of helping the …
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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration lost a last-minute bid Thursday to get the Supreme Court (search) to intervene and protect a federal panel’s military base closing and realignment recommendations. What was to be a routine paperwork delivery to President Bush was threatened by a cross-country legal fight. Judges in Connecticut …
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TEL AVIV, Israel – Opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s (search) Gaza pullout said Tuesday they would keep trying to oust him and quash his peace efforts, a day after the Israeli premier narrowly survived a challenge to his leadership of the governing Likud Party (search). The Israeli military pressed …
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WASHINGTON – After a three-day tour to the Gulf states region, President Bush (search) heads to the Energy Department in Washington on Monday to attend a briefing on energy issues related to the recent hurricanes along the Gulf Coast. On Sunday, Bush had barely finished his three-state survey of the …
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See you weeknights in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… Katrina’s aftermath… the war in Iraq… and Iran’s nuclear threat. With her boss facing tough criticism, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joins us in the No Spin Zone with …
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