GROZNY, Russia – A top pro-Kremlin party led in early returns Monday from Chechnya’s first parliamentary election since federal troops reinvaded more than six years ago, and President Vladimir Putin hailed the vote as a key to restoring law and order. Sunday’s election was the centerpiece of the Kremlin’s strategy …
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This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” November 28, 2005, that was edited for clarity. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Consumers spent close to $28 billion over the Thanksgiving weekend, half of that just from my wife. (LAUGHTER) CAVUTO: That’s more than 20 percent better than last year. …
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WASHINGTON – Traffic was snarled around the nation’s capital early Wednesday after a tanker truck carrying 8,700 gallons of gasoline exploded on Interstate 95 on one of the busiest travel days of the year. The truck driver was able to escape unharmed after he noticed one of his rear wheels …
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LONDON – With drums beating time to a favorite African hymn, Uganda-born John Sentamu was enthroned Wednesday as the first black archbishop in the Church of England. The drums resounded as Sentamu traveled by boat along the River Ouse from his official residence to the ceremony celebrating his becoming the …
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BALTIMORE – Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope (search) suggest. Pluto, discovered as the ninth planet in 1930, was thought to be alone until its moon Charon (search) was spotted in 1978. The new moons, more than twice as far away as Charon …
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NEW YORK – Jessica Simpson says the relentless gossip about her marriage to Nick Lachey drove her to visit a therapist. “Yes I have,” the singer-actress tells Teen People in its December-January issue, on newsstands Friday. “I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren’t …
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Militants pulled a deputy provincial governor from his car and shot him dead and killed a former district chief while he prayed in a mosque in the latest attacks on supporters of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, officials said Saturday. Namatullah Yusuf Zai, southern Nimroz province’s deputy governor, …
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This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” November 16, 2005, that was edited for clarity. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: My next guest made a fortune in the Internet, but sensed that maybe the bubble was about to burst, got out with a fortune, literally, made him a …
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This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” November 17, 2005, that was edited for clarity. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: All right, well, if you think oil companies are getting rich from high gas prices and the like, you may be surprised who is really raking it in. …
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LOS ANGELES – McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) on Tuesday said October sales at hamburger restaurants open at least 13 months rose a higher-than-expected 3.4 percent due to a popular Monopoly game promotion in the United States and improved performance in Europe. Two Wall Street analysts had been expecting growth of 1.2 …
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