Posts Tagged ‘California’

New U.S. Unemployment Claims Drop To 421,000

Latest Personal Loan Offers: Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment compensation dropped to 421,000 for the week ending Dec. 4, a decrease of 17,000 claims from the week before, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Not all jobless workers are insured by the unemployment [...]

U.S. Experimental Space Warplane Ends Orbital Test

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – The U.S. Air Force has completed a 7-month flight test for what is believed to be a futuristic space fighter plane after the unmanned spacecraft left its orbit and landed at a California airbase on Friday. The spacecraft dubbed X-37B or [...]

Google Goes Fashionable With Boutiques.com

AHN News Staff California, United States (AHN) – After helping people around the world search and learn about anything under the sun, popular search engine Google has come up with an online fashion store, which it calls “Boutiques.com.” This store would allow the users to “create and edit” their own boutiques through computer vision and [...]

Home Values Continue To Decline To Near Unprecedented Levels

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Seattle, WA, United States (AHN) – U.S. third quarter home values fell for the 17th consecutive quarter. Home values are now on average 25 percent below their June 2006 peak. Rising from 22.5 percent in the second quarter, 23.2 percent of single-family homeowners with mortgages were underwater on [...]

Even Republicans Are Fighting Back Against Dirty Oil in Two California Propositions

Propositions 23 and 26 threaten the health of California’s environment and economy. View full post on All Stories

U.S. Taps Mexican Drug Cartel Phone Calls Deep In Mexico

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent San Diego, California, United States (AHN) – U.S. law enforcement agencies are using satellite equipment to monitor phone calls by drug cartel leaders deep inside Mexico even as concern grows among Mexican politicians about interference in their domestic affairs. The FBI wiretaps were revealed in a recent 86-page federal [...]

Justice Dept. Appeals Injunction Against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block an injunction on the law prohibiting gays from serving openly in the military, even as the Pentagon said it would abide by the ruling. Government lawyers requested the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals [...]

10/10/10 Environmental Events Set To Begin

David Goodhue – AHN News Reporter United States (AHN) – Environmental awareness celebrations are planned worldwide Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, or 10/10/10. The events are organized by the group, 350.org, founded by Bill McKibben, who is an environmental author. The name of the group refers to getting carbon levels down to 350 parts per million, [...]

California Legislature passes state budget

One hundred days after the beginning of the fiscal year, California officials on Friday adopted the state’s latest budget, a plan to solve a $19 billion deficit with no new taxes or severe cuts to services. Gov. Arnold… View full post on All Stories

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