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Romney's tough line on immigration jars with some
Feb 27, 2012 17:34 EST
MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - For years, Nora Castaneda watched her Mormon community grow and grow as it drew converts from a burgeoning Hispanic population in Mesa, Arizona. Then, in 2010, it all went into slow motion.
Insight: Laws leave cruise-ship victims at sea
Feb 21, 2012 01:14 EST
(Reuters) - When Walter Henry Alderfer learned last month about the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy, it brought back bad memories.
Insight: Fed housing blueprint lost in din of politics
Feb 21, 2012 01:07 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In mid-2011, with the U.S. economy at risk of a new recession, top Federal Reserve officials began to explore a different way to shore up the recovery: looking for fixes for the battered housing market.
Fed's housing blueprint is lost in din of politics
Feb 21, 2012 01:07 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In mid-2011, with the U.S. economy at risk of a new recession, top Federal Reserve officials began to explore a different way to shore up the recovery: looking for fixes for the battered housing market.
Carlynsanity - one reporter's quest for a trademark
Feb 17, 2012 18:05 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 23-year-old New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin has become not only a sports legend but a major business opportunity for everyone who can come up with a pun on his name.
Stemming the tide of overtreatment in U.S. healthcare
Feb 16, 2012 08:39 EST
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A leading group of U.S. doctors is trying to tackle the costly problem of excessive medical testing, hoping to avoid more government intervention in how they practice.
The criminal probe of Sheldon Adelson's casino empire
Feb 08, 2012 17:48 EST
SAN FRANCISCO/MACAU, China (Reuters) - It's never good for the candidate when a big donor runs afoul of the law - as President Barack Obama learned this week: his campaign returned large donations from Chicago's Cardona brothers after it was reported that a third brother is a fugitive from U.S. drug and fraud charges.
Insight: Komen charity under microscope for funding, science
Feb 08, 2012 11:57 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity defines its mission as finding a cure for breast cancer. In recent years, however, it has cut by nearly half the proportion of fund-raising dollars it spends on grants to scientists working to understand the causes and develop effective new treatments for the disease.
Exclusive: Angelides to lead distressed mortgage firm
Jan 13, 2012 15:32 EST
New York (Reuters) - Phil Angelides, formerly the chairman of a federal commission who led investigations into why the financial markets collapsed, is heading an investment group that hopes to "do a good thing" for America while turning a profit from the wreckage of the housing market.
U.S. "BBQ diplomat" wary of young North Korean leader
Dec 21, 2011 18:37 EST
HACKENSACK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Photographs of North Korean diplomats line the walls at Cubby's, a New Jersey barbecue restaurant whose owner says he bonded with officials from the secretive Communist state over baby back ribs.
Exclusive: Falcone's wireless company running out of cash
Dec 19, 2011 15:40 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The upstart wireless company that is being bankrolled by Philip Falcone's $5 billion Harbinger Capital Partners hedge fund could run out of money during the second quarter of 2012, according to the company's financial statement.
Health panel takes heat on cancer screening advice
Dec 18, 2011 08:15 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Ned Calonge knows firsthand how hard it is to tell Americans they'd be better off with fewer routine medical tests.
Corrected:Bill Gross can't stop bleeding from flagship bond fund
Dec 16, 2011 18:00 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gross's PIMCO Total Return Fund, the world's largest bond fund, keeps shrinking as investors look to put their money with some of his competitors.
Gross can't stop the bleeding from flagship bond fund
Dec 15, 2011 17:23 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gross's PIMCO Total Return Fund, the world's largest bond fund, keeps shrinking as investors look to put their money with some of his competitors.
Bill Gross can't stop the bleeding from flagship bond fund
Dec 15, 2011 16:59 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gross's PIMCO Total Return Fund, the world's largest bond fund, keeps shrinking as investors look to put their money with some of his competitors.
Steve Cohen says insider trading rules are "vague"
Dec 13, 2011 17:56 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen in sworn testimony earlier this year called the rules on insider trading "very vague" and said sometimes it's a "judgment call" as to whether a tidbit about a public company is inside information.
Exclusive: Steve Cohen calls insider trading rules "vague"
Dec 13, 2011 14:06 EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen in sworn testimony earlier this year called the rules on insider trading "very vague" and said sometimes it's a "judgment call" as to whether a tidbit about a public company is inside information.
Insight: Super committee had glimpse of elusive compromise
Nov 22, 2011 02:10 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It didn't seem like mission impossible just two weeks ago.
Super committee had one glimpse of elusive compromise
Nov 22, 2011 01:06 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It didn't seem like mission impossible just two weeks ago.
Football abuse scandal devastates small mountain town
Nov 19, 2011 07:11 EST
LOCK HAVEN, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - For the better part of a decade, Jerry Sandusky was a fixture in this small, blue-collar community nestled in the Appalachian mountains: a volunteer football coach and eager mentor to some of its disadvantaged young boys.
