The Los Angeles Times will cut 250 jobs, including 150 in the newsroom, and trim its published pages by 15 percent in an effort to save money in the face of declining revenues.
The president also said he was pleased that the House passed "a responsible war funding bill" that supports troops in Iraq without requiring "artificial timetables" for their withdrawal.
A Los Angeles traffic cop is suing Victoria's Secret for an eye injury she said she suffered because of what she alleges to be a defective thong. As she was putting on the garment, a piece of metal "popped into my eye," she said. "I was in excruciating pain."
Flooding in the Midwest has damaged thousands of acres of cropland at a time when corn prices are already at record highs and Americans are stretching their grocery budgets.
In a year of rising food prices and high fuel costs that are creating pressure to produce more ethanol, the country could really use a perfect corn crop. So far, it isn't happening.
The practice of decorating legislation with billions of dollars in pet projects and federal contracts is still thriving — despite public outrage that helped flip control of Congress two years ago.
President George W. Bush and his top policymakers exaggerated Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism and ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq's arms programs as they made their case for war, a Senate committee reported on Thursday.
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