KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Bill Rancic is going to fire himself. Rancic, winner of the first season of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” (search) says he’ll stop working for Donald Trump when his contract ends in March. “That will probably be it for me,” he said at a global leadership forum Wednesday …
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WASHINGTON – The government’s $5 billion effort to help small businesses recover from the Sept. 11 attacks (search) was so loosely managed that it gave low-interest loans to companies that didn’t need terrorism relief — or even know they were getting it, The Associated Press has found. And while some …
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EL PASO, Texas – A Cuban militant accused of plotting a 1976 jetliner bombing that killed 73 people cannot be deported to Venezuela, an immigration judge has ruled. Luis Posada Carriles (search), who has denied that he planned the bombing, claims he would be tortured if sent to Venezuela, where …
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WASHINGTON – Inventories at U.S. businesses fell unexpectedly by 0.5 percent in July and the heaviest sales pace since December pushed the stocks-to-sales ratios to a record low, a Commerce Department (search) report showed on Thursday. Business inventories shrank after an unchanged reading in June, the report showed. Analysts polled …
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DENVER – A University of Colorado (search) panel recommended a full investigation Friday of research misconduct allegations against a professor who triggered a national outcry for likening some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi. The faculty committee called for investigating Ward Churchill (search) on seven allegations involving plagiarism, misuse of …
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LOS ANGELES – Walt Disney Co. (DIS) Wednesday said its movie studio division would post a loss of up to $300 million in the current quarter, hurt by weak box office ticket sales and higher marketing expenses from a larger slate of Miramax releases. Disney Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs …
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WASHINGTON – Seizing a historic opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court, President Bush swiftly chose conservative John Roberts (search) as chief justice Monday and weighed how to fill another vacancy that could push the nation’s highest court to the right on issues from abortion to affirmative action. Polished and plainspoken, …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s (search) president said Tuesday that Saddam Hussein (search) had confessed to killings and other “crimes” committed during his regime, including the massacre of thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s. President Jalal Talabani (search) told Iraqi television that he had been informed by an investigating judge …
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DALLAS – Texans are welcoming tens of thousands of refugees from deadly Hurricane Katrina. The American Red Cross (search) could not provide immediate information on the number of shelters open across Texas but shelters were known to be open in Houston, Dallas, Austin and cities all along the Texas-Louisiana border. …
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BEIJING – Hu Jintao (search) has set daunting goals for his first trip to Washington as China’s (search) president: improving Beijing’s image amid strains over its growing military power, rivalry for oil and a soaring U.S. trade deficit. Hu’s visit next week, which includes a White House meeting on Wednesday …
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