Heavy rain causing flooding across South - Charleston Daily Mail

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Heavy rain across the South on Wednesday caused flooding, school and road closures and a landslide that destroyed a home in North Carolina. Thousands of people lost power across the Carolinas as a cold front swept the region ...

Gaza Catastrophe: Resource Conflict? Natural Gas, Palestinian ... - OpEdNews.com

Israel claims it is fighting in Gaza to stop Hamas rocket-fire against Israel, the continuation of which constituted a flagrant breach of the six-months ceasefire. Hence, the objective of the military operation is limited by the aim of putting an end ...

Prolonged Nursing Shortage Threatens Patient Care - KDKA

Please, please accept a high-paying job with us. In fact, just swing by for an interview and we'll give you a chance to win cash and prizes. Sounds too good to be true, especially in an economy riddled with job cuts in nearly every industry. But ...

Alan Walters, Thatcher's economic adviser, dies at 82 - Guardian Unlimited

Sir Alan Walters, Margaret Thatcher 's influential and controversial economics adviser, has died at the age of 82 after suffering Parkinson's disease. His public criticism of the then-chancellor, Nigel Lawson, led to Lawson's resignation in 1989 ...

Bush meets Obama ahead of presidents' lunch - Boston Globe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush met successor Barack Obama for the second time at the White House on Wednesday ahead of a lunch with all living U.S. presidents some two weeks before Obama's inauguration. Bush, a Republican, and Obama ...