PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Muslim activists launched a campaign on Wednesday against a series of educational books that they say promote anti-Islamic sentiment among U.S. school children.
"The World of Islam," a 10-book series, encourages young readers to believe Muslims are terrorists and seek to undermine U.S. society, said the ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State and school districts can now tap their 2010 allocations of stimulus school construction bonds, which total $11 billion, the Treasury and Education Departments said on Wednesday, as the U.S. Congress moved to create more demand for the debt.
States can sell a total $6.6 billion ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The New Jersey Casino Control Commission approved MGM Mirage's plan to sell its 50 percent stake in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, the casino operator said on Wednesday.
The stake sale is a response to a state agency's recommendation that the commission ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Lehman Brothers bankruptcy examiner's report will help securities regulators in their investigation of large financial firms involved in the Wall Street meltdown, a top regulator said on Wednesday.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro, testifying at a congressional hearing, provided scant details on who and ...More
MIAMI (Reuters) - The Wachovia Bank unit of Wells Fargo & Co has agreed to pay $160 million to settle U.S. allegations that it laundered Mexican drug money.
Under the agreement, Wachovia will forfeit $110 million, representing the proceeds of illegal narcotics sales that were laundered through the bank, the U ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York should avoid borrowing as a way to plug the state's deficit because the state already has too much debt, the comptroller said on Wednesday, as he sounded the alarm on talks in Albany already under way on more borrowing.
"More borrowing would become part ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that he had one thing going for him: On his own initiative, in anticipation of his first year in college ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ex-Governor Jerry Brown, the presumed Democratic nominee in California's gubernatorial race, has seen his lead over Republican front-runner Meg Whitman evaporate, according to a Field Poll of likely voters released on Wednesday.
Brown, the state attorney general who held double-digit leads over Whitman in Field Poll ...More
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Lance Mackey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, becoming the first musher to notch four consecutive victories in the world's most famous dog-racing event.
Mackey reached the Nome finish line with an official race time of eight days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nearly one in four Californians under age 65 lacked health insurance during all or part of last year, well above the latest national average, in a trend fueled by shrinking coverage due to mounting job layoffs, a new study on Tuesday found.
The number left uninsured for ...More
