PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona on Thursday appealed a judge's decision to block key parts of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants and police in Phoenix arrested scores of activists protesting the remaining measures in the law.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for unemployment benefits slipped last week, but stayed at a stubbornly high level that underscored the labor market recovery was having trouble gaining traction.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A dead whale has been discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises luxury liner near Juneau, the third such incident for the company's Alaska fleet in a decade, officials said on Thursday.
CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (Reuters) - A $100,000 gem-encrusted belt buckle, luxury cars and private jet trips to glitzy resorts were among the bounty funded with millions taken from a body armor company by its former CEO, U.S. prosecutors charged at the end of a six-month trial on Thursday.
BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) - More than 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico shoreline, a panel of U.S. judges heard arguments from lawyers on Thursday on how piles of spill-related lawsuits against BP Plc should be merged.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen's ex-wife asked on Thursday to file a slimmed-down lawsuit that would bring fewer charges in their long-running battle over her claims he hid assets from her when they split.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three months into the worst oil spill in U.S. history, most Californians oppose offshore drilling, marking a strong shift in opinion on the issue, a poll has found.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general has subpoenaed MetLife Inc and Prudential Financial Inc as part of a probe into whether life insurers are defrauding families of deceased military personnel by siphoning off millions of dollars of death benefits for themselves.
TOKYO/DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall nearly 417,000 high-end passenger cars and SUVs in the United States and Canada to fix steering problems.
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