WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a tax incentive for small businesses that add workers, even as Congress struggles to figure out how such an idea would work. Lawmakers have been working for several months to develop a tax credi
Two months ago, NASA put out the call to its past and present employees: design a patch to symbolize the end of the space shuttle program coming to a close in 2010, and the chosen artwork will fly to orbit on one of the final flights. Its in-house p
MEXICO CITY - Mexico City police on Thursday freed 107 people who were forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory making shopping bags and clothing clasps, authorities said. Police raided the factory, which was hidden inside
WASHINGTON - Federal investigators have found no misconduct by U.S. Forest Service personnel in the deaths of five firefighters in a massive 2006 California wildfire. Under federal law, the inspector general for the Department of Agriculture is requ
OTTAWA/VANCOUVER - Canadian National Railway offered a potential olive branch on Tuesday to striking Canadian locomotive engineers, who are angry about a change in the amount of time they have to work each month. Canada's biggest railway said it wo
KHARTOUM - A Darfur gang which says it kidnapped three French aid workers in Chad and the Central African Republic threatened on Monday to kill the trio unless Paris negotiates directly with them, a spokesman for the shadowy group said. We want to
GSTAAD, Switzerland - Workers plowed snow away from Roman Polanski's Alpine chalet on Monday, as Swiss authorities worked with the director's lawyers to meet the conditions of his $4.5 million bail and house arrest. The Swiss Justice Ministry wouldn
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped by gunmen Sunday while delivering supplies to impoverished villages in the desert nation of Mauritania, a police official said. The two men and one woman were attacked while deliverin
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