| Home Is Where the Tax Exemption Is | As tax authorities look for cheats, they are finding that many people who are eligible for the benefit fail to apply for it.
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| Turkish Action Film Depicts Israeli Raid | ?Valley of the Wolves: Palestine? is built around the unsuccessful attempt in May by a six-boat Turkish flotilla to breach Israel?s naval blockade of Gaza.
  | | New York Times | | Putin Extends Ban on Russian Grain Exports | Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin announced Thursday that Russia?s ban on grain exports would be extended well into next year because of continued uncertainty over production.
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| Stimulus funds for BWI projects help to keep workers employed | | Keith Jones, a project manager for Baltimore-based P. Flanigan & Sons, watched Thursday as his construction crew at one end of the parking lot apron at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport worked on a new underground system that collects de-icing fluid from planes. | | Washington Post | | 'Overhaul' details rescue of U.S. automakers | | In one of the first detailed insider accounts by a member of President Obama's team, a chief architect of the federal bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler has penned a 300-plus page description of the policy improvisation performed by the administration as the economy swooned at the outset of... | | Washington Post | | Analyst: GM plans to sell shares on Nov. 18 | | DETROIT -- General Motors plans to start trading shares again on Nov. 18, timing that allows the company one more quarter of earnings to build its case to investors, a firm that researches initial public offerings said Thursday. | | Washington Post | | Plans sought for new SC passenger cruise terminal | COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The top executive of the South Carolina State Ports Authority said Thursday he has asked architects to submit design proposals for a new cruise ship passenger terminal to open within two years in Charleston.
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| Unfulfilled promises to black farmers and Native Americans | | JOHN BOYD JR. has had it. Mr. Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, has worked for the past quarter-century to win some semblance of justice for African American farmers, who for decades were denied government loans because of the color of their skin. Yet something goes wrong... | | Washington Post | | The EPA's new gas-mileage labels are good but not perfect | | THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency is asking for comments on its proposed new gas mileage stickers for automobiles -- so here's ours. On the whole, both of the agency's two suggested alternative stickers represent much-needed improvement over current fuel-economy labeling. They more clearly and... | | Washington Post | | Del. Norton deserves reelection to Congress | | DEL. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is faulted by her opponent in the Sept. 14 primary for not being able to deliver voting rights to the city. This failure, even with solid Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, is why challenger Douglass Sloan thinks that she should be replaced. That... | | Washington Post | | Shouldn't winning the war be Mr. Obama's top mission? | ENDANGERED Democrats beseech President Obama to focus on the problems at home. Republicans smelling blood attack him if he talks about anything but the recession. His own aides promise, from time to time, that his mission will consist of "jobs, jobs, jobs."
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| AOL & Google reset ad pact | | Aol renewed a deal with Google for paid search advertising, passing over rival Microsoft in the process.
The new, five-year pact also includes searching on mobile devices and on AOL's video content that will appear on Google's YouTube site.
The accord expands a partnership the companies forged in... | | New York Post | | Moinian's Broadway flop | | A unit of Deutsche Bank AG sued to foreclose on the Manhattan office tower that formerly housed Newsweek magazine, claiming that developer Joseph Moinian failed to repay a $250 million mortgage.
Moinian Group stopped making payments on the mortgage on 1775 Broadway in January, according to the lawsuit filed in... | | New York Post | | Flash crash probe | | The US Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether high- speed traders helped destabilize equity markets during the May 6 crash by repeatedly placing and canceling orders in an attempt to manipulate share prices, a person with direct knowledge of the inquiry said.
The strategy is among several practices being... | | New York Post | | Lehman 'myth' regretted | | Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he regretted not saying in congressional testimony shortly after the failure of Lehman Brothers in 2008 that the central bank had no authority to save the firm.
The testimony at the time "has supported this myth that we did have a way of saving... | | New York Post |
| Could this be the new green heart of Downtown? | | The city has just added a little California dreaming to its plans to give Downtown a sparkling new park.The Economic Development Corporation just named San Francisco-based open space firm Hargreaves Associates to design Willoughby Square Park, which will replace a dour strip of tenement buildings on Duffield Street ? once... | | New York Post | | AOL & Google reset ad pact | | Aol renewed a deal with Google for paid search advertising, passing over rival Microsoft in the process.
The new, five-year pact also includes searching on mobile devices and on AOL's video content that will appear on Google's YouTube site.
The accord expands a partnership the companies forged in... | | New York Post | | Moinian's Broadway flop | | A unit of Deutsche Bank AG sued to foreclose on the Manhattan office tower that formerly housed Newsweek magazine, claiming that developer Joseph Moinian failed to repay a $250 million mortgage.
Moinian Group stopped making payments on the mortgage on 1775 Broadway in January, according to the lawsuit filed in... | | New York Post | | Flash crash probe | | The US Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether high- speed traders helped destabilize equity markets during the May 6 crash by repeatedly placing and canceling orders in an attempt to manipulate share prices, a person with direct knowledge of the inquiry said.
The strategy is among several practices being... | | New York Post |
| Why I miss bubba | | There's been a lot of talk about Bush nostalgia lately.
At Martha's Vineyard, the Obama-bilia wasn't moving like it was during the Obamas' previous visit there. The big seller was a T-shirt depicting a smiling George W. Bush with the tagline "Miss Me Yet?"
In response to... | | New York Post | | Queens' toxic pols | | What's in the water in Queens?
Rep. Joseph Crowley -- chairman of the borough's Democratic Party -- finds himself the target of an ethics probe.
The Office of Congressional Ethics -- an outside, independent body of former members of Congress -- recommended this week that the House Ethics... | | New York Post | | Brooklyn's wild goose chase | | THE ISSUE: The gassing of 400 Canada Geese in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
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It is unfortunate that Andrea Peyser failed to let her readers know about the alternative measures available to wildlife management agencies to humanely deal with the growing population of Canada Geese in the city ("Silly Goose War... | | New York Post | | Borrowing trouble: dems' deficit damage | | THE ISSUE: Comparing the costs of the federal economic-stimulus plan and those of the Iraq war.
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The chart that accompanies your fine editorial, "Obama's Spending Spree" (Aug. 30), disproves, once and for all, the progressive Democrats' deceitful narrative about the economy.
It shows that the fairly healthy and improving... | | New York Post |
| Tony Blair on the Panic | | Britain's former prime minister understands better than most the origins of the financial crisis. | | Wall Street Journal |
| Bernanke Defends Record On Lehman | | Fed chief Ben Bernanke told a panel that he had no options to prevent Lehman Brothers' failure in September 2008 even though he knew its downfall would be "catastrophic." | | Wall Street Journal | | New Jobless Claims Decline | | Fewer workers filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, the second week in a row such claims declined and a rare bright spot in an otherwise grim job market. | | Wall Street Journal | | Putin Extends Wheat-Export Ban | | The Russian prime minister's move helped push up the price of wheat and sparked fears of supply shortages and broader unrest over rising food costs. | | Wall Street Journal | | ECB Raises Growth Forecast | | The European Central Bank raised its central forecast for 2010 economic growth in the euro zone after leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record-low of 1%, as expected. | | Wall Street Journal |
| Bundesbank Seeks Sarrazin's Dismissal | | The German central bank said its board will ask the country's president to dismiss Thilo Sarrazin, whose comments on immigration have caused a political storm. | | Wall Street Journal | | Putin Extends Wheat-Export Ban | | The Russian prime minister's move helped push up the price of wheat and sparked fears of supply shortages and broader unrest over rising food costs. | | Wall Street Journal | | ECB Raises Growth Forecast | | The European Central Bank raised its central forecast for 2010 economic growth in the euro zone after leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record-low of 1%, as expected. | | Wall Street Journal | | Probe Circles Globe to Find Dirty Money | | A slim lead helped spark a global inquiry that found some of Europe's vaunted banks actively evaded U.S. law in aiding sanctioned countries to move $2 billion undetected. | | Wall Street Journal |
| H-P Outguns Dell in Takeover Duel | | It wasn't the biggest bidding war the tech world has ever seen, but the battle between titans H-P and Dell for a humble maker of data-storage systems certainly qualified as one of the wildest ever. | | Wall Street Journal | | Toshiba To Launch New Tablet Computer | | Toshiba Corp. said Friday that it will release by year-end a tablet computer that runs on Google Inc.'s Android operating system as the company aims to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPad. | | Wall Street Journal | | A New Digital Battlefield | | TV shows are emerging as a new front in the war over digital media between Amazon.com and Apple amid their ongoing battles over electronic books and online music. | | Wall Street Journal | | Samsung Unveils iPad Rival | | Samsung introduced its Galaxy Tab to rival Apple's iPad tablet. The device could help the company make up for lost ground in its smartphone business. | | Wall Street Journal |
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