National Post | Excluding Census, jobs increase 224000; jobless rate rises to 9.9% MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The US added 290000 jobs in April, the biggest increase since March 2006, with broad gains throughout the economy. Yet the unemployment rate rose. However, nonfarm payrolls increased by a ... U.S. Economy Added 290000 Jobs in April |
The Guardian | Gulf oil spill reaches Freemason Island as BP prepares to lower giant funnel The Guardian The oil spill containment box aboard a barge in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP A giant steel and concrete box seen as the best chance of stopping the BP spill arrived at the scene in the Gulf of Mexico today, as authorities confirmed ... Factbox: How the oil spill containment dome works BP moves containment structure to oil spill site State AGs ask feds for help on oil spill damages |
Reuters | Times Square Bomb Suspect Waives Rapid Court Hearing New York Times A boy looked through the gate of a home belonging to the family of Faisal Shahzad in Mohib Banda, Pakistan, on Wednesday. More Photos » By MARK MAZZETTI, SABRINA TAVERNISE and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM A Pakistani-American charged in the failed Times Square ... Government revamps airline "no-fly" after failed NY bomb Faisal Shahzad praised by Pakistan Taliban spokesman who says 'fighters' are ... Inside Story of Attempted Terror Bombing in Times Square |
Globe and Mail | Flooded Nashville faces long recovery CNN By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- The Cumberland River is receding in swamped Nashville, Tennessee, but Music City faces a long recovery from the historic flooding. The floods left landmarks, homes and businesses underwater in the country music capital. ... River Begins to Recede in Tennessee Flooding causes power outages in Nashville Death toll in Tenn. flooding rises to 18 |
The Hindu | Times Square Attack Puts Focus on NYPD's Need for Funds to Fight Terror FOXNews The New York Police Department finds itself in the awkward position of having to use Saturday night's near-catastrophe -- a potenti » |
Financial Times | 'Very Lucky': Cops Comb Foiled Times Sq. Bomb Clues ABC News A T-shirt vendor saw something suspicious in New York's Times Square Saturday evening -- smoke coming from an unoccupied SUV on 45th Street near 7th Avenue -- so he alerted police. Authorities found potenti » |
The Hindu | In Gulf Oil Spill, Fragile Marshes Face New Threat New York Times Thousands of feet of containment boom line the Louisiana coast, an effort to protect the shore from the encroaching oil spill. By LESLIE KAUFMAN and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON COCODRIE, La. â€" With oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico unabated and officials ... Weather Complicates Oil-Spill Cleanup |
