CHATHAM, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Residents and business owners in the beach communities of Cape Cod and nearby islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard hung plywood over their shop windows on Friday and rued the arrival of Hurricane Earl, which appeared set to spoil their holiday weekend.
But ...
Earl was located about 230 miles south-southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts, moving north-northeast at a quick 22 mph (35 km per hour) with maximum sustained winds down to 80 mph from 85 mph at midday.
While Earl was not forecast to make U.S. landfall, it was expected to steer along the Eastern ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will outline new measures next week to boost the U.S. economy after August data on Friday showed again that jobs -- the central issue in November elections -- were being created too slowly.
Obama, speaking to reporters in the White House Rose Garden, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the drop was far less than expected and private hiring was a positive surprise, relieving concerns about a stalling economic recovery.
Nonfarm payrolls fell 54,000 as jobs were lost in the government sector, and the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors in Gabriel Capital LP, a so-called feeder fund that funneled money to imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, were awarded $12.74 million by a panel of three arbitrators, court records show.
The award to two New Jersey investment funds was disclosed in a filing Thursday ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday launched an investigation into Mariner Energy Inc's Gulf of Mexico platform fire, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
A light oil sheen spotted near the offshore facility was not believed to be a leak and is thought to be related to Thursday's ...
Some harnesses supplied by Johnson Controls for lighting in 2010 model-year Soul cars and 2011 model-year Sorento SUVs were improperly soldered, leading to possible electrical shorts, Kia said in a letter to U.S. safety regulators on August 30.
There were no reports of accidents or injuries due to ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc removed a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on Friday afternoon, a company spokesman said.
"The Deepwater Horizon BOP stack was successfully detached" from the Macondo well shortly after 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT), spokesman ...
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Miami Dade County, the Fraternal Order of Police said the city should void the cuts and come up with other ways to fill a $105 million budget gap, like stepping up its collections enforcement.
Miami declared a "financial emergency" in July and said ...
By Susan Heavey and Lisa Richwine
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - It wasn't what you would call a casual get-together.
