Feds plan to clear up older veteran benefit claims
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-20 12:16:46 -0700 | political-news
The Obama administration said it plans to speed up processing of Department of Veterans Affairs claims dating back to more than a year ago. The department said Friday it would tackle a backlog of about 250,000 long-running claims and clear...
CNN gets ratings boost during Boston bombing coverage
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-20 11:52:28 -0700 | entertainment-news
CNN logged a 194 percent boost in viewers Monday through Thursday compared to the previous week with coverage of the Boston marathon bombings, ratings indicate. The cable news network edged out Fox News between 11 p.m. and midnight Thursday when...
Airline lawsuit won't block flight delays right away
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-20 08:17:00 -0700 | business-news
A U.S. airline industry trade group has joined two pilot unions in a legal challenge to air-traffic controller furloughs prompted by federal spending cuts. Airlines for America, which represents the airlines, the Air Line Pilots Association and the Regional Airline...
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder linked to pot's active ingredient
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-20 07:50:53 -0700 | health-news
Endocannabinoids, compounds chemically similar to the active ingredient in marijuana, play a role in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, U.S. researchers say...Basavarajappa of the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and New York state Psychiatric Institute investigated the effect...
Poll finds solid desire for home ownership in U.S.
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 15:10:49 -0700 | political-news
Most Americans either already own their homes or plan on buying one in the next 10 years, a Gallup Poll said this week. Only 11 percent of the population told the pollsters they did not currently own their own place...
Boston Comic-Con fans asked to leave 'weapons' home
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 13:23:27 -0700 | political-news
The producers of Boston Comic-Con asked costumed customers to leave their backpacks and prop weapons at home when the show opens Saturday...Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center but with increased security in the wake of the bomb blasts that occurred this...
Trident Diving recalls scuba air hoses
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 09:28:50 -0700 | business-news
Chatsworth, Calif. company Trident Diving Equipment is recalling high-pressure scuba air hoses due to potential leaks, regulators said. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said 200 air hoses were involved in the recall. The hoses are meant to connect regulators to...
J.P. Boden dungarees for children recalled
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 15:05:16 -0700 | business-news
U.S. regulators announced a volunteer recall of J.P. Boden dungarees for children due to studs and clasps that could pose a choking hazard. About 1,900 Mini Boden Chunky Cord Dungarees sold in sizes 0-24 months and 2Y through 4Y are...
Simpson, Bowles to offer new plan to wipe out debt
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 08:21:39 -0700 | business-news
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles say they are coming out with a new plan to bring the U.S. deficit under control. In a plan to be announced Friday, Bowles and Simpson, who led President Barack Obama 's 2010 fiscal commission,...
Man kills wife, dies in police shootout
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 06:15:37 -0700 | disasters-news
A man died during a shootout with police after he killed his ex-wife in a Pennsylvania parking lot, police said. The victim had just left a dress shop in Feasterville with her 16-year-old daughter, NBC News said. The two were...
U.S. leaders want gulf waters open for oil
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 05:35:17 -0700 | green-news
The United States can move closer to energy independence by opening offshore reserves near the Mexican border, lawmakers said...Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings , R-Wash., and House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere...
Amanda Knox says she considered suicide in prison
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 04:38:37 -0700 | entertainment-news
Amanda Knox writes in her memoir she considered killing herself while imprisoned four years in Italy for a murder she says she did not commit. Knox, now 25, was convicted in December 2009 after two years in prison and sentenced...
API: U.S. crude data show slow growth
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-19 03:33:48 -0700 | business-news
There's very slow recovery under way in the U.S. economy as measured by petroleum deliveries for March, API Chief Economist John Felmy said. The American Petroleum Institute reported that U.S. petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, were around 18.3 million...
More Astro Aerospace antennas for GPS-III
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-18 11:35:43 -0700 | business-news
More self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas for U.S. GPS satellites will be produced by Northrop Grumman under a Lockheed Martin follow-on award. The number of systems from Northrop's Astro Aerospace business unit number 48 and will be used on GPS-III satellites...
Air Force to lay off 1,000 civilian workers at 60 bases
Source: United Press International
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-18 10:46:52 -0700 | technology-news
Air Force bases will be laid off in coming months because of cuts to the Defense Department budget, officials say. The reduction-in-force is part of a personnel-slimming program begun last year and is not related to the current sequestration actions,...
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