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• Official fired after helicopter ride to wedding
BUCHAREST, Romania - A Romanian Cabinet minister was fired Tuesday after he used a government helicopter to make it to his wedding on time. Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu fired Education Minister Cristian Adomnitei, 33, after it ...
• Chinese lawyers pressured to drop milk cases
The government has been struggling to show the public that it is dealing successfully with the scandal, which has battered the country’s image, so carefully cultivated during the Beijing Olympics. At least four babies have died and more than 54,000 ...
• A new, more powerful Fed emerges in crisis
Radical steps by the Fed under chairman Ben Bernanke — all in the name of seeking to halt the panic sweeping financial markets — are turning it into a financial colossus. They're also putting the government deeper in debt and taxpayers further at ...
• Gas below $3.50 for first time since April
WASHINGTON - U.S. retail gasoline prices fell 15 cents a gallon over the last week, dropping below an average $3.50 a gallon for the first time in six months, the government said on Monday. The national price for regular unleaded gasoline is $3.48 a ...
• Scientists go online to discuss drugs with kids
ROCKVILLE, Md. - It's nothing to LOL about. Students these days often have ready access to marijuana, alcohol and tobacco but they don't feel comfortable talking about the ramifications. So, some of the nation's government scientists went to the ...