Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Congress Friday swiftly passed a deal to extend the payroll-tax cut through the end of 2012, continue paying unemployment benefits and avoid a steep cut in Medicare doctors’s fee, moving forward from a lengthy fight that had tied up legislators for months. The [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Stephen Colbert’s “The Colbert Report” was shut down this week because of the host’s ailing 91-year-old mother, according to reports from The New York Post. On Thursday, Comedy Central suspended production due to “unforeseen circumstances.” The network is filling the time by [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week to the lowest level in nearly four years. The Labor Department reported Thursday that initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 348,000, the lowest since March 2008. Economists [...]
AHN News Staff Paris, France (AHN) – French aviation workers continued their strike for a third consecutive day Wednesday, forcing carrier Air France to cancel 30 percent of its domestic flights and 40 percent of long-haul flights. The strike has not only affected Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport and regional airports but also thousands of [...]
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims for the week ending Jan. 21 rose by 21,000 to 377,000, compared with the previous week’s revised figure of 356,000, the U.S. Department of Labor said. The less volatile four-week moving average was 377,500, a drop of 2,500 from the [...]
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Initial unemployment claims dropped to 352,000 during the week ending Jan. 14, their lowest level in nearly four years. First time claims for jobless benefits dropped by 50,000 from the previous week’s revised tally of 402,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Trenton, MI, United States (AHN) – Kathleen Edward, the sick 9-year old girl who made national headlines after being taunted by a neighbor on Facebook, has lost her battle with Huntington’s Disease. Kathleen’s father told Fox2 News Detroit that his daughter passed away at 10:07 p.m. Wednesday. Kathleen suffered [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – Age related memory loss is widely believed to begin around the age of 60, but new research shows that memory and other mental declines may often begin years earlier. A new British study is the first to attempt to track cognitive skills among [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C, United States (AHN) – It appears that quite a few Americans got pink slips for Christmas. In the week before the holiday, the number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits rose. Roughly 381,000 people filed initial jobless claims in the week ended Dec. 24, the Labor [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – If you thought the Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries marriage and divorce was quick, nothing compares to Sinead O’Connor’s latest marriage and spilt. Just 16 days after O’Connor and Barry Herridge said “I do,” the couple said, “I don’t.” The British “Nothing Compares 2 [...]
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