Today, I issued the following statement regarding the Labor Department’s March jobs report indicating the national unemployment rate has dropped to 8.8 percent: Today’s jobs numbers are a positive sign that our economy is moving in the right direction and further evidence that tax relief, not stimulus spending, is the best way to get job [...]

Obama was due on Saturday to make a public statement on the pact with South Korea, which has been held up for three years because of U.S. auto and beef industry concerns. President Barack Obama on Saturday was expected to start building the case for approval of a free-trade agreement with South Korea that he [...]

AHN News Staff Srinagar, India (AHN) – Chief Minister of the beleaguered Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, has written a complaining letter to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the Indian Army’s very public criticism of his government and constant interference into the state policy issues. Omar’s letter to the PM [...]

AHN News Staff D.C., Washington, United States (AHN) – The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is now checking all U.S. flight passengers against terrorism watch lists, TSA Administrator John Pistole disclosed Tuesday. This means 197 air carriers, including 127 airlines that fly internationally, are part of TSA’s screening program. Pistole’s announcement confirmed the statement on the [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The United States on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the legislative election process in Egypt as reports of irregularities emerged in the absence of international monitoring. Commenting on “the conduct during and leading up to Egypt’s Nov. 28 legislative elections,” National Security Council spokesman [...]

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Business Roundtable Executive Director Larry Burton offered the following remarks on the proposal put forward yesterday by National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Co-Chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson: “The debt crisis our country faces is real and needs to be addressed. We are on an unsustainable path and will lose our national [...]

Good things come in small packages, and no statement is more true of small businesses than this fact. Small businesses are vital in any and every economy – from the shop on the corner to the company with single-digit number of employees that services the immediate community. View full post on All Stories

The Media Line Staff Beirut, Lebanon (TML) – The Lebanese Army has moved to dismiss rumors that its ranks could be ripped apart by sectarian strife over heightened political polarization in the mixed Christian/Muslim country. In a bulletin entitled There is no Cause for Civil Strife, issued by the Guidance Directorate of the Lebanese Army [...]

Australia’s QR National has completed the acquisition of some A$3 billion worth of loans from 11 banks before its planned initial public offering, the company said in statement today. View full post on All Stories

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States has refused to comment on the recent admissions of the former Pakistani military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, who in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, said that Pakistan, a close ally of the U.S., trained underground militant groups to [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States on Thursday refused to get bogged down by the unilateral decision by Pakistan to shut down supply routes to the NATO led-ISAF forces in Afghanistan, in retaliation for an air strike. U.S. Department of Defense spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told [...]