Ecuador was on course to re-elect President Rafael Correa after yesterday's voting in an emphatic endorsement of his leftwing rule, which would make him the first incumbent in a century to win two consecutive terms. Exit polls gave the combative and ...Read More
Declaring a fiscal emergency in New Jersey is one option open to Gov.-elect Chris Christie as he searches for a way out of the state's deep financial deficit, the head of his transition team said. Jeff Chiesa, executive director of Christie's ...Read More
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Voters have narrowly elected a Democrat to lead Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city. With most of the votes counted, Anthony Foxx was leading challenger John Lassiter, a Republican, by nearly 3,000 votes out of 105,000 cast. But Lassiter ...Read More
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's president is in London this week to promote a unique proposal: pay his country $3 billion not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon reserve. Germany and Spain have expressed interest in President Rafael Correa's ...Read More
Ecuador and Norway have condemned a recent terrorist attack in southeastern Iran that killed at least 41 people, including some military commanders.
The terrorist group Jundallah has claimed responsibility for the bombing that was carried out in Sistan-Baluchestan Province on Sunday.
Ecuadorian ...Read More
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Nicaragua's leftist President Daniel Ortega appears to have won the right to seek re-election in 2011. The constitutional commission of the Supreme Court is dominated by judges loyal to Ortega's Sandinista party. It has thrown out a ...Read More
In what may be the ultimate job rating, 43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today, down from 52 percent six months ago, from April 22-23, 2009. Obama's job ...Read More
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson is proposing nearly $1 billion budget cuts to health care and education combined to deal with the state's $3 billion deficit. Sources with knowledge of the plan said Paterson will propose just under half a billion in ...Read More
LOS ANGELES -- When Daniela Lopez visited her parents' hometown in Ecuador this summer, she talked to her mother every night on the phone.
One evening, Gloria Lema called and her daughter didn't answer. The 26-year-old Los Angeles woman was found ...Read More
QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador says it will consider changes to draft mining and water laws that provoked a clash with Indians last week that claimed a protester's life. Vice President Lenin Moreno says an accord signed with Indian leaders will bring ...Read More
MACAS, Ecuador — Several hundred Shuar Indians wearing black war paint and toting wooden spears on Thursday reinforced a highway blockade that police failed to break up a day earlier in a bloody melee that left one Indian dead and ...Read More
QUITO, Ecuador — Police clashed with Amazon Indians protesting proposed water, oil and mining laws Wednesday, leaving one Indian dead and 40 police and nine Indians wounded, Ecuadorean officials said. Indians said two civilians were killed. The clash took place on ...Read More
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Former Vice President Al Gore touted New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's economic recovery efforts and his policies on health care and the environment as he urged the state's Democrats to do all they can to help ...Read More
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - The Ecuadorean government says President Rafael Correa's chief of security has died of swine flu. The online government publication El Ciudadano says air force Lt. Col. John Merino died Sunday after being hospitalized for 28 days. El Ciudadano ...Read More
Chevron Corp. escalated its long-running legal battle over pollution in Ecuador by releasing to YouTube videos that purportedly show a $3 million bribery scheme involving the judge hearing the case and the president of Ecuador. In the videos, edited and transcribed ...Read More
(AP) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought to rally support for his domestic initiatives, while Sen. John McCain called for Americans to support Iranian election protesters. The one-time presidential rivals both cited the spirit of the nation's founders in their ...Read More
Michelle Obama stopped by Moscone West on Monday to kick off President Obama’s national call to public service. Speaking to a sold out crowd of almost 5,000 people at the opening of the three-day National Conference on Volunteering and Service, Obama ...Read More
10 immigrants killed in SUV crash Ten undocumented immigrants "stacked like wood" in the back of a sport utility vehicle crammed with at least 22 people were killed when the driver lost control and rolled over on a remote southern Arizona ...Read More
WEST ORANGE, N.J. - Vice President Joe Biden says he and President Barack Obama will help re-elect Jon Corzine as governor. Biden appeared at Corzine's campaign kickoff on Tuesday night to rally the Democratic faithful and draw attention away from the ...Read More
QUITO, May 30 (Reuters) - Ecuador's government-run centralbank has ordered private banks to repatriate $1.2 billion inoverseas deposits and investments to help jump-start the economy,leftist President Rafael Correa said on Saturday. The central bank board imposed a domestic liquidityrequirement to force ...Read More
May 19 (Bloomberg) -- Target Corp. shareholders should votefor the retailer’s proposed directors and keep its board size at12 instead of backing activist investor William Ackman’snominees, according to proxy firm Glass Lewis & Co. “The current board and management are working ...Read More
