International Business News - US/Canada http://www.ibtimes.com/subsection/politicsnpolicy/uscanada.htm All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Two rail cars have jumped the track and overturned in southern Louisiana, leaking hydrochloric acid and forcing police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile of the accident. 118061 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/2-rail-cars-overturned-residents-evacuated.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 10:54:15 EDT As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast. 118027 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48190-oregon-senate-race.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/oregon-race-could-spell-end-of-schumer-streak.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/oregon-race-could-spell-end-of-schumer-streak.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 10:34:10 EDT The NAACP board of directors has chosen Ben Jealous, a 35-year-old former news executive and lifelong activist, as the organization's next president and the youngest in its 99-year history. 118029 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/naacp-picks-young-activist-as-its-new-president.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 10:29:12 EDT State investigators were trying to determine what caused a spinning carnival ride at a county fair to collapse and injure all 24 people aboard. The carnival ride, called the Yo-Yo, collapsed shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, about 80 miles southeast of Sacramento. 117984 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/carnival-ride-collapses-in-california-24-injured.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 09:40:00 EDT Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said. The bodies of an elderly man, an elderly woman _ who were not related _ and a younger man with defensive wounds had been dead for several days in the Tenafly home, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. 118002 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/police-find-3-decomposing-bodies-inside-nj-home.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 08:20:55 EDT Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that financial markets are "considerably calmer" now than they were two months ago. He predicted the economy will be rebounding by the second half of this year. 118058 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48183-earns-retail.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/treasury-secretary-says-markets-are-calmer-now.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/treasury-secretary-says-markets-are-calmer-now.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 08:12:27 EDT A lucky lottery player who stopped into a suburban Cincinnati liquor store has a Mega Millions ticket worth $196 million. Lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said Friday night that the ticket for the drawing was bought from Main Street Wine & Spirits in Amelia in southwest Ohio. 117981 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/winning-mega-millions-ticket-sold-near-cincinnati.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 07:48:06 EDT Huge swathes of farmland were destroyed by the earthquake in central China, but the losses should not cause food shortages or big price hikes nationally, a senior official said Saturday. 118049 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48137-china-earthquake.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/china-says-earthquake-wont-affect-food-prices.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/china-says-earthquake-wont-affect-food-prices.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 07:41:35 EDT An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station, killing the driver and hurting seven people, authorities said. 117994 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/van-jumps-curb-in-nyc-killing-1-trolley-crashes-in-la.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 07:24:55 EDT Olympian Tim Montgomery had everything he ever wanted. Once known as the "world's fastest man," Montgomery won a silver medal in the 400 relay at the 1996 Olympics and gold in the same event in 2000. In 2002, he set a record of 9.78 seconds in the 100-meter dash. 118023 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48134-track-star-fraud.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/olympian-montgomery-gets-46-months-for-check-fraud.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/olympian-montgomery-gets-46-months-for-check-fraud.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 07:09:49 EDT NFL owners could opt out of their agreement with the players union next week, leaving open the possibility of a 2010 season without a salary cap. The labor agreement is on the agenda for the league meetings in Atlanta on Tuesday. 118048 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48136-spygate-kraft-football.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/nfl-owners-may-opt-out-of-labor-deal-next-week.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/nfl-owners-may-opt-out-of-labor-deal-next-week.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 06:57:36 EDT Jennifer Marsh was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eyesore on the drive to her studio each day. So the aspiring artist and inspired activist came up with an idea _ to cover the gas station with a colossal handmade blanket in a way that would bring greater attention to the world's dependency on oil. 118035 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/artist-covers-old-gas-station-with-huge-blanket.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 06:47:24 EDT Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah. 118016 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/48193-appeasement-idaho-senator.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/senator-dead-since-1940-figures-in-2008-presidential-furor.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/senator-dead-since-1940-figures-in-2008-presidential-furor.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 06:45:10 EDT The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator. Area residents believe the reptile was washed into the 600-foot-diameter crater by water from surrounding swamps. 118034 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/texas-sinkhole-becomes-a-lake-home-to-alligator.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 05:01:38 EDT IN THE HEADLINES Clinton tells Oregonians she won't give up, unveils 3 new ads ... McCain asks staff to disclose lobbying connections ... Huckabee quips about gun aimed at Obama in speech to NRA, later issues apology ... 118026 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/47960-obama-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/today-on-the-presidential-campaign-trail.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/today-on-the-presidential-campaign-trail.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 04:04:10 EDT After nine months of turmoil that started with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, Wall Street appears to be at a turning point of sorts. The data of the past few weeks have given investors some hope that the worst of the credit crisis has passed, that the economy isn't losing jobs at a dangerous rate and that inflation isn't out of control. The result has been relative calm in the financial markets, enabling the major indexes to reach levels they hadn't seen since early in the year _ including the Dow Jones industrials' brief return earlier this month to the 13,000 mark. 118022 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/47964-wall-street-new-kids-on-the-block.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/summer-may-bring-a-turning-point-for-stock-market.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/summer-may-bring-a-turning-point-for-stock-market.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 03:57:44 EDT Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. 118018 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/court-sides-with-myspace-in-suit-over-sex-assault.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 03:34:44 EDT Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign. 117985 http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/47945-obama-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/obama-criticizes-mccain-for-naive-foreign-policy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/obama-criticizes-mccain-for-naive-foreign-policy.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 03:08:45 EDT A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid, possibly while he was still alive. 118009 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/chemist-gets-life-for-killing-husband-in-acid-vat.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 03:06:49 EDT A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday. 118008 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/texas-minister-charged-in-internet-sex-sting.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 03:01:35 EDT