LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Increasingly vocal calls for taxes on sugary drinks and junk food are fueling a behind- the-scenes battle that public health officials say is reminiscent of America’s war on cigarettes.
ROME, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A group of 91 countries have finalised the first global treaty to fight illegal fishing, seeking to shut ports to rogue vessels plundering the seas, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Tuesday.
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Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal court’s order that the state reduce its prison population by 40,000 inmates, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Here’s the figure: $2.878 billion. That’s how much money the government owes car dealers for the “Cash for Clunkers” program.
More than $200 million of that is owed to dealers in Illinois and Indiana, so CBS 2′s Mai Martinez checked with some of them to see how much money they’ve collected from Uncle Sam.
DETROIT (AP) - The popular Cash for Clunkers program boosted Ford Motor Co.’s U.S. sales in August by 17.2 percent over last year, but shortages of smaller vehicles weighed on rival Chrysler Group LLC.
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The City Council is considering a bill that will make it illegal to “bring onto transit property odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system, whether such odors arise from one’s person, clothes, articles, accompanying animal or any other source.”
Now, Kansas is poised for an unlikely distinction: It’s about to get into the casino business, not merely by blessing gambling and taxing the profits but by becoming the legal owner of the casinos themselves.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google’s Gmail service has been knocked offline for much of the day in many places.
Google says a “majority” of users were affected.
3D technology looks set to hit the home consumer market next year, with Sony on Wednesday announcing plans to sell 3D televisions globally by the end of 2010.
In a high-profile 1991 transaction, hockey great Wayne Gretzky and Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall bought the elusive T206 Honus Wagner baseball card for $451,000. The American Tobacco Co. produced the T206 from 1909 to 1911, but only 50 were ever distributed to the public. As early as 1933, the card could supposedly fetch $50 on the collectibles market, which made it the most expensive baseball card in the world.
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It has been known since the early 1980s that the U.S. federal budget embodies a large structural imbalance - one that persists through the economy’s ups and downs. In 1980, Ted Kennedy referred to this during his campaign for the presidency; Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama commented on it during theirs.
