As entrepreneurship continues to grow in popularity with college students, the nation’s entrepreneurial centers are responding with more classes, teachers, and programs focused on the business of entrepreneurship, according to a new study by the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Indiana University. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s NEW …
Read More »East Timor Ruling Party Refuses to Fire Prime Minister; Foreign Minister Resigns
DILI, East Timor – East Timor’s ruling party refused to fire the prime minister Sunday, defying the demands of the popular president and triggering the resignation of the Nobel prize-winning Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta. The developments threatened to completely unravel the government as it struggled to regain control following the …
Read More »Roughly 35,000 Hourly Workers at General Motors Take Buyout, Retirement Offers
DETROIT – About 35,000 hourly workers at General Motors Corp. (GM) have taken buyout or early retirement offers, surpassing the company’s expectations as it tries to cut costs by paring its hourly work force, GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said Monday. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Autos page. The …
Read More »Controversial Charles Bukowski Archive Donated to Refined California Museum
SAN MARINO, California – The genteel Huntington Library, which contains the rare documents by the likes of Chaucer and Dickens, is to house the gritty literary collection of author Charles Bukowski. Bukowski’s widow on Wednesday announced that she was donating her late husband’s chronicles of the hard-drinking, bar-brawling life in …
Read More »Specter Offers Ultimatum on Eavesdropping Rules
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says he’s prepared to force telephone company executives to testify about the White House’s eavesdropping program if the Bush administration doesn’t fully cooperate in drafting new rules on what’s allowable. “If we don’t get some results, I’m prepared to go back to demand …
Read More »Soldier's Diary: Zarqawi is Just One Obstacle Removed in Iraq
BAGHDAD – Editor’s note: U.S. Army Capt. Dan Sukman is serving a one-year deployment to Iraq. For previous entries and his bio, see the Soldier’s Diary archives. 9 June 2006 AMZ [Abu Musab al-Zarqawi] was killed yesterday. I cannot claim to know the effects on higher levels, but here are …
Read More »Marine: Song Written About Killing Iraqis a 'Joke'
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – A Marine corporal seen in a video singing about killing members of an Iraqi family says the song was a joke. “It’s a song that I made up and it was nothing more than something supposed to be funny, based off a catchy line of a movie,” …
Read More »Body of Missing 12-Year Old Girl Found, Farmhand Charged With Homicide
WAYNESBURG, Pa. – The body of a 12-year-old girl who disappeared last week was found buried at a farm where she liked to visit horses, and a farmhand was charged in her death, authorities said. Gabrielle Bechen was reported missing Tuesday after she went riding on her all-terrain vehicle near …
Read More »Norway Building Remote Arctic 'Seed Vault' in Case of Global Catastrophe
OSLO, Norway – It sounds like something from a science fiction film — a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island ready to serve as a Noah’s Ark for seeds in case of a global catastrophe. But Norway’s ambitious project is on its way to …
Read More »Texas Executes Man for 1999 Triple Slaying
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Proclaiming his innocence, an admitted drug dealer was executed Tuesday evening for a shooting spree in 1999 that left three men dead and two others wounded outside a Fort Worth convenience store. Lamont Reese, 28, had to be carried into the death chamber. “I want everyone to …
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