Archive for December, 2009
It’s how you finish, not how you start
NEW YORK (AP) — That gaudy 6-0 record the Denver Broncos held in October has faded under an avalanche of weak performances. Unless they win Sunday and get some help, the Broncos will be watching the postseason, not participating in it. When the Giants stormed to a 5-0 mark, talk of winning a second Super Bowl in three years dominated the New York football scene.
AP sources: CIA base chief killed in attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a suicide bombing at a base in Afghanistan. The Associated Press has learned that one of them was the chief of the CIA’s post in Afghanistan’s southeastern Khost Province.
Former Gitmo detainees help al-Qaida grow in Yemen
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go home to Saudi Arabia and work at his family’s furniture store. Instead, al-Shihri, who was released in 2007 under the Bush administration, is now deputy leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a group that has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day attempted bomb attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.
Treasury winds down bank bailouts with $29M outlay
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department said Thursday it has pumped $29.3 million into 10 banks, which will be the last to receive investments as part of the taxpayer-funded program to shore up the financial system. The aid comes from a $700 billion financial bailout program created last year during the height of the financial crisis. The investments in the 10 banks are the last under Treasury’s so-called Capital Purchase Program, Treasury officials said
At Decade’s End, Revelers Wonder What Future Holds
By Samantha Gross, Associated Press Writer Out with the old and in with the — what? With the nation at war on two foreign fronts,…
Giants place CB Ross, HB Jacobs on injured reserve
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants placed running back Brandon Jacobs and cornerback Aaron Ross on injured reserve on Thursday, ending their…
