Talk about a backdoor cut.
The announcement Thursday that negotiations to end the NBA lockout would resume were followed by reports that some players are investigating the possibility of decertifying the union.
The NBA players union said it would (...)
The NBA laid off about 114 people over the last two days, planned cost-cutting moves that a league spokesman said Thursday are “not a direct result of the lockout.”
The laid off employees represent about 11 percent of the league office workforce in (...)
A sense of resolve and a clear purpose should not be partisan commodities, yet, in Washington, only the Republicans seem to have them. They know exactly what they want and pursue it with ruthless efficiency: preserve all the Bush-era tax cuts, no (...)
Two senior Afghan officials were showing President Hamid Karzai the evidence of the spectacular rocket attack on a nationwide peace conference earlier this month whenKarzai told them that he believed the Taliban were not responsible.
“The president (...)
The Obama administration considers Israel's blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another approach to ensure Israel's security while allowing more supplies into the impoverished Palestinian area, senior American officials said (...)
It'S unnerving, disorienting. A particularly noxious blend of helplessness, fear and fury that washes over you when you realize the country has again been dragged into a costly and scary maelstrom revolving around acronyms you've never heard (...)
Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations demands.
The United (...)
After the last insult had been spat from the Senate floor, after final passage of a legislative attempt to do something significant in this messy democracy, a leading voice of the opposition made a public prediction: “People will be hunting (...)
Indians own more gold than the citizens of any other country. They use the glittering metal as ornaments to flaunt family wealth, as a source of retirement savings and as insurance against calamities.
But lately, gold has become something else: (...)
The only survivor among the gunmen accused of killing more than 160 people here in November offered a dramatic and unexpected confession in the Mumbai court where he was being tried Monday, reversing months of denials, the prosecution said.
Moments (...)
Last week, comics fans were buzzing over a storyline planned for the 600th issue of Archie Comics, in which Archie Andrews would finally propose to either his longtime girlfriend, Veronica, or his longer-time girlfriend, Betty.
But on the official (...)
Israeli warplanes bombed a convoy of trucks in Sudan in January that was believed to be carrying arms to be smuggled into Gaza, according to American officials.
The American officials who described the Israeli role declined to be identified because (...)
An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion (...)
Ten polar bears, an unusually large number, were seen swimming in open water off the northern coast of Alaska recently, some heading for shore and some heading toward the retreating ice in the Chukchi Sea.
Susanne Miller, the biologist in charge of (...)
For Thom Dietmeyer, a retired naval officer, standing again on the bridge of his old ship was a dream come true, even if he was 70 feet below the surface of the ocean.
“I knew exactly where I was going as soon as I got down there,” he said, (...)
When Paul C. Sereno went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Sahara, his career took a sharp turn from paleontology to archaeology. The expedition found what has proved to be the largest known graveyard of Stone Age people who lived there when the (...)
Record prices for gasoline and jet fuel should be good news for Amtrack, as travelers look for alternatives to cut the cost of driving and flying.
Amtrak set records in May, both for the number of passengers it carried and for ticket revenues — all (...)
Signs are growing that the government may allow farmers to plant crops on millions of acres of conservation land, while a chorus of voices is also pleading with Washington to cut requirements for ethanol production.
The Midwest floods have washed (...)
Inflation is suddenly turning into a worry for the Federal Reserve, which knows that its credibility as a central bank would be damaged if investors concluded it was not determined to combat the recent rise in prices.
It still seems unlikely that (...)
A market that had been looking for direction in recent weeks seems to have found one: down.
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 220.40 points, or 1.83 percent, on Friday — closing below 12,000 for the first time since March — in a sell-off (...)
The Ford Motor Company said on Friday that it would delay introducing its new pickup, a vehicle critical to its plan to become profitable, and that it would probably lose money for a fourth consecutive year in 2009 because of a precipitous drop in (...)
Sylvester Stallone directed and wrote (with Art Monterastelli) the newest “Rambo,” and plays the title character. When we first encounter him, this weary warrior has retreated from geopolitics, passing the time at a remote river station in the Thai (...)
a romantic comedy about the rivalry between a jealous ghost and a flaky psychic for the love of a veterinarian — “Over Her Dead Body” is not bad. Eva Longoria Parker, as Kate, the ghost, represents the control-freak/ice-queen end of the female (...)
These rugged green mountains, once home to one of Asia's most productive coal regions, are littered with abandoned mines and decaying towns — backwaters of an economy of bullet trains and hybrid cars. But after decades of seemingly terminal decline, (...)
When the Senate Banking Committee approved on Tuesday legislation to help suffering homeowners refinance costly loans, lawmakers said they had found a way to rescue the housing market without requiring taxpayers to foot the bill.
By forcing the (...)
