AP – Britain’s financial regulator has hit Goldman Sachs & Co. with a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine for failing to notify U.K. authorities about an investigation in the United States.
Also tagged 17-5-million, britain, business, financial-regulator, goldman, goldman-sachsAP – BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible preview of its legal strategy, it also pointed the finger at its partners on the doomed rig.
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Also tagged ambassador, bible, broadway-street, burning, flag, oppose, pakistani-urges, portland-oregon, quranReuters – President Barack Obama, fighting to keep Democrats in charge of Congress, said on Wednesday the United States could not afford to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich and accused Republicans of being fiscally irresponsible.
Also tagged business, choices-based, congress, democratic, democrats, obama, office, opinion, president, their-opinion, united-states, upcoming, wednesday, whiteReuters – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday the United States needed more incentives to stimulate job growth and bolster a slow recovery from a “savage” recession.
Also tagged business, needed-more, said-on-wednesday, slow-recovery, stimulate-job, timothy, timothy-geithner, treasury, treasury-secretary, united-states, wednesdayReuters – BP shifted much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States’ worst-ever oil spill onto its contractors Transocean and Halliburton.
Also tagged blame, its-contractors, rig-blast, science, shifted-much, spill-onto, the-blame, transocean, united-states, worst-ever-oilA runaway who said her father threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity from Islam has been granted permanent residency in the United States, her lawyer told CNN on Tuesday. View original post here: Runaway Christian convert granted U.S. residency The Portland, Oregon bankruptcy attorneys and Vancouver Washington … Read the original post: Runaway Christian convert granted U.S
Also tagged christian, christianity, cnn, father, islam, lawyer, oregon, runaway-christian, tuesday-view, united-states, vancouverReuters – Google will launch its new service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room.
Also tagged autumn, business, desktop, extends-its, its-chief, living, united-states, will-launchAFP – World oil prices diverged on Monday, the end of the traditional peak demand season for motor fuel in the United States.
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