BOMBINGS IN IRAQ HAVE KILLED SIXTY-THREE (9a.)PEOPLE IN A SERIES OF COORDINATED ATTACKS THAT SPECIFICALLY TARGETED SHIITE MUSLEMS ATTENDING A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL IN BAGHDAD ALONG WITH OTHER LOCATIONS ACROSS THAT MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY. AT LEAST ONE OF THE ATTACKS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TO BE THE WORK OF AL-QAEDA’S IRAQI ARM. THE BOMBINGS AND SHOOTINGS COME [...]

DISAPPOINTING JOB NUMBERS AT HOME AND GROWING UNCERTAINTY OVERSEAS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO WHAT LOOKS TO BE A DOWN MONDAY IN SHARES AND COMMODITIES TRADING. VALUES OF THE EURO ARE STILL DOWN, BUT NOWHERE NEAR AS DOWN AS THEY WERE FRIDAY WHEN THE EURO SANK TO A LEVEL NOT SEEN IN ALMOST TWO YEARS. CRUDE OIL [...]

DURING THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF 2012, NON-FARM PAYROLL EMPLOYMENT INCREASED ON AVERAGE BY 226-THOUSAND. BUT THAT ENCOURAGING TREND HAS SLOWED TWO MONTHS INTO THE SECOND QUARTER WITH THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS THIS MORNING RELEASING MAY EMPLOYMENT DATA. IT SHOWS THAT THE ECONOMY ADDED 69-THOUSAND JOBS FOR THE MONTH, FEWER THAN APRIL’S GAIN [...]

IT’S NOT OVER ‘TIL IT’S OVER, AS THE SAYING GOES. AND MITT ROMNEY’S PURSUIT OF THE 2012 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION MOVED PAST THE PRESUMPTIVE STAGE BY VIRTUE OF HIS DECISIVE VICTORY IN TUESDAY’S PRIMARY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. IN CAPTURING THE LONE STAR STATE’S 155 DELEGATES YESTERDAY, ROMNEY PUT HIMSELF COMFORTABLY OVER THE TOP [...]

FROM AFGHANISTAN COMES WORD THAT N-A-T-O FORCES HAVE KILLED A SENIOR LEADER OF AL-QAEDA IN AN AIRSTIKE IN THE EASTERN PART OF THAT COUNTRY WHERE U-S AND OTHER COALITION FORCES HAVE FOUGHT FOR TEN YEARS. MOST OF THE AL-QAEDA HIGHER-UPS IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD HAVE FLED TO NEIGHBORING PAKISTAN, WHICH IS WHERE OSAMA [...]

WHAT MAY HAPPEN WITH THE ECONOMIC AND DEBT CRISES OF GREECE IS NOT CLEAR. BUT IF THE SCENARIO DEVELOPS TO THE POINT THAT GREECE LEAVES THE EURO ZONE, EACH OF THE OTHER ECONOMIES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY HAVE AGREED TO FORMULATE THEIR OWN PLAN ‘B’ IN SUCH A CASE. THIS WAS DETERMINED IN AN HOUR-LONG [...]

WHILE THE NATION’S SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM MAY BE RELEGATED TO HISTORY, THAT DOESN’T MEAN AMERICA HAS ABANDONED THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE. NOR HAS N-A-S-A GIVEN UP ON THE IDEA. BUT SOMETHING NEW IS BEING ADDED TO THE EQUATION AS A PRIVATE ROCKET HAS LIFTED OFF FROM FLORIDA’S CAPE CANAVERAL. IT’S CALLED THE DRAGON, AND THE [...]

ESTIMATES FROM THE CENSUS DEPARTMENT LAST YEAR POINT TO THE LATEST TREND IN THE MIX OF AMERICA’S MELTING POT. FOR THE FIRST TIME, MORE THAN HALF OF THE BIRTHS IN THE NATION WERE TO PEOPLE OF ETHNIC AND RACIAL MINORITIES. IN SPITE OF THIS, THE CENSUS BUREAU’S NEW DATA ALSO SHOWS THAT RECENT TRENDS IN [...]

REBEKKAH BROOKS WAS NOT A FAMILIAR FIGURE TO NEWS WATCHERS OUTSIDE GREAT BRITAIN UNTIL THE PHONE HACKING SCANDAL AT RUPERT MURDOCH’S NEWS INTERNATIONAL BROKE LAST SUMMER. SINCE THEN, THE U-K TABLOID BROOKS ONCE EDITED — NEWS OF THE WORLD — HAS CEASED TO EXIST. ALSO, A COMMITTEE IN PARLIAMENT HAS DECLARED BROOKS’ BOSS MURDOCH UNFIT [...]

JP MORGAN CHASE — ONE OF THE GIANTS OF AMERICAN BANKING AND FINANCE LEFT STANDING AFTER THE CRISIS OF 2008 — IS STILL STANDING IN PART BECAUSE OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. LAST WEEK, IT BECAME KNOWN THAT JP MORGAN CHASE LOST SOME 2 (B) BILLION DOLLARS THROUGH THE SAME KIND OF PRACTICES THAT CONTRIBUTED TO [...]