July 26, 2006 (Wednesday) |
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July 19, 2006 (Wednesday) |
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- Merck & Co. wins a trial over a grandmother's claim that its Vioxx painkiller caused her to have a heart attack, reducing pressure on the company to settle 12,000 other cases about the drug. (Bloomberg)
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July 12, 2006 (Wednesday) |
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- The United States is considering establishing an independent command for South Korean troops. South Korea has command of its forces during peacetime, but currently the United States would take control if there were a war. (Reuters)
- Condoleezza Rice says Iran's rejection of the international incentives program will force the major powers to take decisions in the United Nations Security Council. (Reuters)
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- craigslist is sued because of illegal posts to that website. Amazon, eBay, AOL, Yahoo, and Google all file briefs as friends of the court in support of craigslist. (NPR News)
- President George W. Bush says in a rare conference out of Washington, D.C. in Chicago, that the United States had "a reasonable chance" of shooting down the long range missile fired by North Korea, if it didn't fail. He also said however that, "Our anti-ballistic systems are modest, they are new," and that, "I have always said it is important for an American president to exhaust all diplomatic avenues before use of force." (Associated Press)
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered a plot to bomb the Holland Tunnel and flood Lower Manhattan with water. (Daily News)
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