by Lucy Ren | Jul 30, 2015 | Business & Tech, Topics
Experts project robust growth in trading volumes on Nasdaq OMX Group’s new energy derivatives exchange, despite oil prices’ recent moves into bear market territory. After U.S. oil prices met the common definition of a bear market last week — by falling more than 20%...
by Siyuan Du | Jul 29, 2015 | Topics
Boeing Co., in its 100th year in business, will consider moving key parts of its operation to other countries if Congress does not vote to revive the Export-Import Bank, which expired last month, Boeing Chairman James McNerney said Wednesday. “We love making and...
by Ezra Kaplan | Jul 29, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA – Camp X-Ray received the first prisoners in the War on Terror in January 2002. Suspected al-Qaida and Taliban fighters arrived shackled wearing orange jumpsuits, blackout goggles and face masks. They were on their way to eight by eight cube cells...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 29, 2015 | Business & Tech, Environment
WASHINGTON– A new government rule that promises to do more to protect streams near coal mining operations entered a critical stage this week, with coal industry lobbyists and environmentalists already lining up for battle. A 60-day comment period opened Monday....
by Ezra Kaplan | Jul 29, 2015 | GITMO, National Security
GUANTANAMO NAVY BASE, CUBA — The July commission hearings for accused war criminal Abd al Hadi al Iraqi halted abruptly this week after the defendant decided he did not trust his assigned Pentagon Lawyers. Not a single one of the motions set to be argued was...
by Nikki McGee | Jul 29, 2015 | National Security
This week marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, and the 20th anniversary of the Korean War Veterans Memorial. Service members and families gathered at the memorial over the weekend to hear the names read of the fallen soldiers. The Korean War...