VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada and the United States have adopted a unified warning system to better advise skiers and snowmobilers about the avalanche danger, Canadian officials said on Wednesday.
Canada unveiled the new warning system just days after a big snow slide slammed into a snowmobile rally near Revelstoke, British Columbia ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. grand jury formalized criminal charges on Wednesday against two former computer programmers at swindler Bernard Madoff's firm, alleging they conspired with others to falsify investor records using a special program.
The two men, Jerome O'Hara, 47, and George Perez, 44, were originally ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday urged Congress to be cautious about imposing strict rules on how and whether law enforcement officials can interrogate terrorism suspects they detain.
Some Republican lawmakers have questioned whether critical information was lost because the intelligence community was not present for interviews of ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission plans to announce in coming weeks an agenda of proceedings stemming from the recommendations in the national broadband plan, an agency official said.
Phoebe Yang, general counsel of the FCC's broadband task force, said on Wednesday that the FCC will launch more than ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. gasoline prices head toward $3 a gallon, states with many drivers in rural areas would take the biggest financial hit if pump costs spiked to record levels again, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
Consumers in all states are dependent on oil for ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gay rights activists are renewing their fight to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, hoping a mix of moneyed supporters and celebrity star power will tilt the scales in their favor.
A group called Fight Back New York, created with money from software entrepreneur and openly gay ...More
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - A message to all those confident young American women from pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem: For all the advances in women's rights in the past 40 years, equality remains a distant hope.
As she turns 76 next week, the woman who walked the front lines of ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit accusing Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and four executives, including Chief Executive Gerald McCaughey, of misleading investors about the bank's exposure to subprime mortgages.
Judge William Pauley of Manhattan federal court rejected claims on Wednesday in the ...More
MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. cruise companies are eager to add Cuba to their itineraries; but even if U.S. policy allowed that, Cuba's ports would need years of rebuilding to accommodate the ships, industry officials said on Wednesday.
"Our business has grown so much that these ports in Cuba ...More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's Nexus One smartphone will soon be available to subscribers of Sprint Nextel Corp, the second U.S. wireless service provider to announce an agreement to support the touchscreen phone.
Sprint said on Wednesday it would announce the pricing and availability date soon for the ...More
