Yep, as many predicted, Apple has decided to give every iPhone 4 user a case — be it one of Apple’s Bumper cases or a third-party iPhone case — in the hopes of stamping out complaints of reception problems. Details on how to get your free case are still a bit sketchy, but here’s what [...]
So, what exactly is a short sale? Put simply, a short sale is the sale of a home in which the amount owed to the lender(s) is more than the amount that the home can be sold for. Instead of the home owner having to bring in money to complete the sale, the sale is [...]
NEW ORLEANS – BP finally choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday — 85 days and up to 184 million gallons after the crisis unfolded — then began a tense 48 hours of watching to see whether the capped-off well would hold or blow a new leak. To the [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa – An Iowa tea party group on Wednesday replaced a billboard comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, calling the sign a bad decision that reflected poorly on the organization. Workers papered over the sign in downtown Mason City at the request of the North Iowa Tea Party. “We [...]
Taxpayers have paid out nearly $1 million per year in settlements to congressional employees who have been harassed or otherwise treated badly by their political bosses over the past 14 years, according to records from the Office of Compliance. The payouts stem from hundreds of complaints from employees, some of whom may have been sexually [...]
If you focus only on the averages, life in the typical American town frankly doesn’t seem so hot right now. The median home continues to lose value. Cash-strapped state and local governments are cutting services. And unemployment, at 9.3%, is still high. But those bummer statistics obscure one important-and encouraging-fact: There are plenty of outliers. [...]
BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) said Monday that it has successfully installed a new sealing cap as part of efforts to stop oil from gushing out of a broken well in the Gulf of Mexico. The cap was installed at about 7 p.m. central time (0000 GMT), the company said in a statement. Starting Tuesday, the [...]
Click here to see interactive graphics about every BP solution: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704545004575353364174224780.html#project%3DOIL_FLIP_BOOK10 BP PLC is pushing to fix its runaway Gulf oil well by July 27, possibly weeks before the deadline the company is discussing publicly, in a bid to show investors it has capped its ballooning financial liabilities, according to company officials. At the same [...]
Maybe the odds of winning the lottery would be a lot better if Joan Ginther would stop buying all the good tickets. By now you may have heard of the Las Vegas resident, who you probably want sitting next to you when an asteroid, slungshot by aliens, is aimed at your plane. She recently cashed [...]
President Obama didn’t get a raise last year — nor did most of his senior staff. That’s according to the White House’s latest salary list, eports a nearly $39 million annual payroll. This year, the White House has made the report, which it files with Congress every year, available online for the first time. The [...]
With stock prices spiraling downward and treasury yields tanking, the market has been sending a clear message this week: The fragile economic recovery is in trouble. But just how bad is the outlook? In the aftermath of a bleak second quarter, experts are still divided about the likelihood of a double-dip recession. What’s becoming clearer [...]
WASHINGTON — Buy those Forever stamps now. The cost of mailing a letter is going up again. Fighting to survive a deepening financial crisis, the Postal Service said Tuesday it wants to increase the price of first-class stamps by 2 cents — to 46 cents — starting in January. Other postage costs would rise as [...]
PASAR KAGET USA: ACARA PERDANA YANG MENGAGETKAN Diperkirakan lebih dari seribu pengunjung masyarakat Indonesia di Southern California dikagetkan dengan keberadaan dan kemeriahan acara “Pasar Kaget USA†pada hari Sabtu, 26 Juni 2010 di Riverside (CA). Ini merupakan acara perdana dari Indonesian Community Southern California dalam rangka menjamu masyarakat Indonesia di Amerika khususnya Southern California yang [...]
WASHINGTON — As Americans gear up for the Fourth of July barbecues and festivities, the nation’s emergency doctors, hand surgeons, and ophthalmologists brace for an influx of patients with fireworks-related injuries. The Level I trauma center at the University of Kentucky hospital in Lexington is already crowded during summer months from a wide range of [...]
The Pentagon is preparing to nominate a living soldier for the Medal of Honor — the military’s highest distinction — for the first time since the Vietnam War, the Washington Post reports Thursday. The Pentagon has not released the nominee’s name while the award is under consideration, but the Post reports that he ran through [...]
JOHANNESBURG – No matter how much the United States continues to emerge as a competitive World Cup nation, there is little doubt that the international perception of American soccer will always be doused with suspicion. Why? Because Americans don’t even call the sport by its proper name, of course. They don’t call it “football.†They [...]
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