SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders were scheduled to resume work Saturday on bridging California's $26 billion budget shortfall following an unexpected resumption of negotiations the day before. Late Friday, lawmakers from both parties expressed optimism about the ...Read More
Will investors get charged up over a stock offering by California electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc.? The answer to that question may be coming soon. The company plans to file for an initial public stock offering in the near future, Reuters ...Read More
Pay for California's top elected officials will be slashed by 18 percent next month, one year earlier than expected, to abide by an opinion issued Thursday from Attorney General Jerry Brown. Just in time for the holiday season, lawmakers will have ...Read More
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Despite multiple attempts to balance California's budget, the state can still expect to confront shortfalls approaching $20 billion during each of the next five years, according to a long-range forecast released Wednesday. The report by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's ...Read More
MILAN—California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won't say what his plans are when his term expires next year, but it won't be running for another office. "I have never labeled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything ...Read More
BAGHDAD (AP) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has dropped in on U.S. troops in Iraq, thanking them for the sacrifices they and their families are making. Schwarzenegger entered a crowded dining hall at Camp Victory on Baghdad's outskirts Monday to a ...Read More
BAGHDAD—California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has dropped in on U.S. troops in Iraq, thanking them for the sacrifices they and their families are making.
Schwarzenegger entered a crowded dining hall at Camp Victory on Baghdad's outskirts Monday to a loud roar from ...Read More
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The trial of a French teaching assistant who was arrested on spying charges following Iran's disputed election in June will resume on Tuesday, Iran's ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. Clotilde Reiss, who is out of jail on ...Read More
RAMALLAH, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) from the West Bank and Jerusalem on Saturday called on Hamas movement to end the current division as Egypt vowed to resume the dialogue on inter-Palestinian reconciliation by ...Read More
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was promoting a complex legislative package to rebuild California's water system, he often appeared alongside farmers who were unable to cultivate their land amid a third year of drought and federal pumping restrictions. Yet agricultural relief ...Read More
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG plans to resumeawarding contracts to Magna International Inc. for car parts,Bild Zeitung reported. Since losing a bid to purchase General Motors Co.’s Opeldivision, Magna is not considered a competitor of Volkswagen,and Europe’s largest carmaker will ...Read More
Reporting from Sacramento - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday gave federal judges a road map to reducing state prison overcrowding by waiving some state laws to allow sentences to be reduced and new private prisons to be built.
But the governor ...Read More
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- China will probably let the yuanstart rising against the dollar in early 2010 after the centralbank signaled it may pursue a more flexible currency policy,said Calyon, the investment-banking arm of Credit Agricole SA.
The exchange rate will ...Read More
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office says the governor will visit U.S. troops in Iraq next week. Schwarzenegger's communications director, Matt David, says the Republican governor will spend a couple days in Iraq early next week, but he said he ...Read More
GAZA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Islamic Hamas movement officials Wednesday said the movement will endorse an Egyptian-proposed reconciliation plan as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said his hand was extended to Hamas for the national dialogue. Earlier on Wednesday, Aziz Dweik, speaker ...Read More
With willow trees, migrating geese and local politicians as his backdrop, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday visited San Jose to sign a new water conservation law that aims to reduce urban use 20 percent statewide by 2020.
Schwarzenegger signed the bill, ...Read More
FRIANT — Framed by a shrinking mountain reservoir, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a far-reaching water bond measure Monday intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years. Yet at a ...Read More
(Adds economists' comments on outlook for Taiwan's exports.) Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TAIPEI (Dow Jones)--Taiwan's exports will likely resume robust growth in November after they fell at their slowest pace in more than a year in October because of strong demand for ...Read More
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) urged on Saturday Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya and de facto President Roberto Micheletti to return to the dialogue in an attempt to save the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Agreement. EU is concerned over ...Read More
