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Chrysler repaying government loans
Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Monday that his company will save $300 million in interest a year when it repays $7.5 billion in US and Canadian government loans today. Chrysler plans to announce the repayment at a Detroit-area auto assembly plant.
Updated: 05/24/2011 05:02A
Pakistan's spy agency helped militant group, court hears
Attention to the trial in Chicago's federal court has increased in recent weeks, especially amid questions about whether the ISI had knowledge of bin Laden's whereabouts. Security has been tightened, with more armed guards and a metal detector outside
Updated: 05/24/2011 05:01A
Gag order can't quell salacious Giggs story
LONDON — Britain's scandal-hungry news media, an outspoken parliamentarian and thousands of ordinary people using the Twitter microblogging site have dealt a body blow to an institution of British justice, flouting a gag order
Updated: 05/24/2011 05:01A
Dismantling the Constitution: The 4th Amendment is under attack
If there is probable cause to believe there are illegal drugs in a residence, police must take the time and follow procedures to get a warrant. Catching every drug dealer at every single opportunity is not more important than the right of the people to
Updated: 05/24/2011 05:01A
Craft brewers can still distribute under Ill. bill
Anheuser-Busch InBev filed a lawsuit last year saying out-of-state and in-state brewers face different standards for self-distribution in Illinois. A federal judge agreed and stripped all brewers of that right. But the judge delayed implementing that
Updated: 05/24/2011 05:01A
Chrysler CEO hails 'payoff day'
DETROIT — Less than two years after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Chrysler is poised to pay off its government debt, Chrysler Group LLC and Fiat SpA CEO Sergio Marchionne said Monday. "Tomorrow is payoff day," Marchionne said Monday at a grand
Updated: 05/24/2011 05:01A
Harry & David may exit bankruptcy this summer
Last year, Harry & David posted losses of $57.6 million and earlier this year was unable to make required loan payments on its debt. That debt was primarily accumulated by its parent company, Wasserstein & Co., a private equity firm that purchased
Updated: 05/24/2011 05:01A
Organic Eggs Not Created Equal, Says New Scorecard
According to the Cornucopia Institute (CI), a non-profit which promotes economic justice for family scale farming, all organic eggs are not alike. They recently released the report Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic
Updated: 05/24/2011 05:00A
NEPAL: Mass withdrawal of cases violates Nepal's international human rights
This disposition shows that concerns for justice, accountability and rights to remedy for the victims were at the heart of the CPA and were considered the bedrock of the democratic system fostering the peace process. Withdrawing criminal cases amount
Updated: 05/24/2011 04:59A
Bank of America pays $410mn to settle overdraft dispute
The documents released Monday by a US district court in southern Florida said the class action lawsuit included some one million clients and that a final approval of the settlement would take place November 7. The case, which dates back to 2009,
Updated: 05/24/2011 04:55A
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