Mar 8, 2012 – Recent remarks by U.S. President Barack Obama that he is not thinking of military action against Iran are positive, according to Iran's supreme leader, Iran's state-run Press TV reported Thursday. But Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized Obama's threat to impose more sanctions on Iran, saying Tehran's enemies have been imposing repeated sanctions...

Mar 8, 2012 – Wells Fargo will start charging $7 a month for checking accounts in six more states, expanding on its efforts to do away with free checking accounts altogether. While Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500) stopped offering free checking accounts to new customers in 2010, existing customers were able to hold onto their...

Mar 8, 2012 – The often ice-cold relationship between President Obama and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is beginning to thaw. The sudden cooperation between the Virginia Republican and the Obama White House is surprising, most notably because it’s happening during an election year. On Tuesday afternoon, the White House issued its official statement of...

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Mar 7, 2012 – The US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, has pushed back against fresh demands for US military involvement in Syria to end President Bashar al-Assad's deadly crackdown on his people. "What doesn't make sense is to take unilateral action right now," Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday about advising President Barack...

Mar 7, 2012 – The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights. The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the effects should start smacking Earth around 7 a.m. EST Thursday, according to forecasters at the federal...

Mar 7, 2012 – Mitt Romney's campaign team has appealed for his rivals to quit the Republican presidential race, claiming that it is near impossible for them to catch him after the Super Tuesday results and that by staying in they are boosting President Barack Obama's re-election chances. But Rick Santorum, boosted by his three...

Mar 7, 2012 – The US Senate has voted to uphold Washington's ability to impose duties on subsidised goods from China and Vietnam. This follows a US court ruling against the practice. The House of Representatives is expected to pass the bill, which will then go to President Barack Obama to sign into law. Opponents say...

Mar 7, 2012 – The Occupy Wall Street movement may be losing its spotlight in the United States, but it's gaining attention in Iran, where a handful of American professors recently traveled to attend a conference focusing on the anti-capitalist protests. "The discourse (in Iran) seems to be veering from 'Down with America!'...

Mar 7, 2012 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is "working worse and worse". In a TV debate, Mr Sarkozy defended his plan to almost halve the number of new arrivals if re-elected next month. Mr Sarkozy is trailing in the opinion...

Mar 7, 2012 – Barack Obama's victory Tuesday in Oklahoma's Democratic primary was far less emphatic than typical for an incumbent president, and his poor showing in more than a dozen of the state's counties threatened to cost him a unanimous re-nomination. With all but six of the state's 1,961 precincts reporting, Obama had...

Mar 7, 2012 – At a Politico breakfast this morning, Los Angeles mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, the Democratic convention chair, said the Democratic party's platform should include same sex marriage. But one wonders what the president might say about Villaraigosa's comment. After all, Obama is opposed to same sex marriage. “I believe that marriage is...

Mar 7, 2012 – Iceland is reportedly looking to ditch their unstable currency and adopt the Canadian dollar, the Globe and Mail reports — and Canada might let them. Canadian ambassador Alan Bones is due to say tomorrow that if Iceland is sincere in its intention, the two countries should enter talks.

Mar 7, 2012 – Hiring in the private sector picked up in February, according to a report released Wednesday by payroll processor ADP. Private employers added 216,000 jobs in the month, ADP said, roughly in line with forecasts for 218,000 jobs gained. "I'm really heartened by these numbers," said Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, which...

Mar 7, 2012 – Gross domestic product grew by 2.7pc last year, down from 7.5pc growth in 2010, dragged back by higher business costs and lower industrial output. Economists had forecast a 2.8pc rise in gross domestic product. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, Brazil's GDP grew by 0.3pc in the final three months of 2011,...

Mar 7, 2012 – Retiring Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) will not endorse former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) in a Democratic primary. "I usually don't take sides in contested primaries, so that's pretty much where I am," he told The Hill on Tuesday. Kerrey has long been national Democrats' preferred choice, but after he initially...

Mar 6, 2012 – Editor's Note: By Mallory Carr. Rick Santorum decisively won North Dakota with 40% of the vote, a full 13 points ahead of Ron Paul, who finished 2nd. Paul was counting on a good showing here tonight. He typically fares better in caucus states, largely due to...

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Mar 6, 2012 – A fired employee of Episcopal High School in Jacksonville, Florida, returned to the school Tuesday, shot and killed the headmistress and then killed himself, authorities said. The gunman, who was terminated earlier in the day and carried an assault rifle in a guitar case, went to the office of Headmistress Dale...

Mar 6, 2012 – Newt Gingrich put his love of space exploration into action on Super Tuesday by going to Space Camp. “Of all the places we’ve held rallies, this may be the most amazing, just to stand here,” Gingrich said, surveying the space rocket above him. “I invite Saturday Night Live to come here...

Mar 6, 2012 – The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing its plan for a biometric data system to track when immigrants leave the United States and will present it to Congress within “weeks,” a top department official told a House Homeland Security subcommittee Tuesday. An exit system to track who is leaving the country...

Mar 6, 2012 – The White House abruptly announced Monday that it had scuttled plans to hold the coming G-8 economic summit in Chicago and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland's mountains north of Washington. It was an unusually late location change for a large and highly...

Mar 6, 2012 – The Townhall Polltracker average shows Santorum leading narrowly in the former state and comfortably in the latter, but RealClearPolitics…

Mar 6, 2012 – Ron Paul hoped a speech to North Dakota Republican caucus goers in Fargo could bring him the first state victory of his presidential campaign Tuesday. Rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum waited to see whether their own North Dakota campaigning would pay dividends. North Dakota Republicans prepared to visit one of...