GOP official: ND Gov Hoeven to run for US Senate
AP via Yahoo! News
North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven has decided to run for the U.S. Senate, a Republican official with knowledge of Hoeven's plans told The Associated Press on Monday.
Dollar to rise, yen to fall- China wealth fund official
The Guardian
BEIJING, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An investment strategist at China's $300 billion wealth fund said the world's third-largest economy now had say in the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar, which it expects to rise while the yen should fall further....
CIC Official Says China May Raise Rates Before Fed, MNS Reports
BusinessWeek
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- A China Investment Corp. official said the Asian nation may raise benchmark interest rates before the U.S. because it faces a greater risk of an asset bubble, Market News International reported today. The U.S. dollar ...
Dollar Gains as China CIC Official Sees End to Greenback’s Drop
Bloomberg
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar rose against the euro after an official at China Investment Corp. said he saw an end to the U.S. currency’s recent decline.
Kenyan official: Radical cleric to stay in prison
San Jose Mercury News
Kenyan Minister for Immigration Otieno Kajwang, speaks at a press conference in his office in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 . Kajwanj said that Kenyan authorities will hold radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric Sheik Abdullah el-Faisa...
Official wants probe into bogus Tiger Woods child abuse claim
The Independent
A Florida lawmaker is calling for an investigation into who phoned a hot line claiming Tiger Woods' children were being abused. A Florida lawmaker is calling for an investigation into who phoned a hot line claiming Tiger Woods' children wer...
UN Humanitarian Official Visits Cairo And Damascus
Scoop.co.nz
Senior United Nations humanitarian official Catherine Bragg today begins a four-day mission to Egypt and Syria to boost the world body’s partnerships with actors in the region.
Closer Look at Accident of Ex-Official
New York Times
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is investigating an accident last week in which Howard Safir , the former New York City police commissioner, backed his sport utility vehicle into a pregnant woman on the Upper East Side and then dro...
China wealth-fund official talks up dollar: report
Market Watch
An official with China’s sovereign wealth fund moves foreign-exchange rates after reported comments from a speech in Beijing that are dollar-bullish and yen- and gold-bearish.
Suspended Jersey City employee indicted in massive corruption sting
Bridgeton News
The indictment charges Guarini with one county of conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion under color of official right, which carries a 20 year maximum prison term and $250,000 fine. He is also charged with four counts of attempted ob...
Hundreds of Yemeni rebels slain in clashes: Saudi official
Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News
RIYADH/SANAA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Yemeni Shi'ite infiltrators have been slain in border clashes, a top Saudi defense official said on Tuesday, after state media said four Saudi soldiers were killed in the fighting with the rebels.
Ex-top NASA official charged in Mississippi
AP via Yahoo! News
A former high-ranking NASA official pleaded not guilty Monday to nine federal charges accusing him of steering a $600,000 contract to Mississippi State University, a client of his consulting firm.
AP Sources: Obama likes national health exchange
YAHOO!
Obama met with union leaders Monday, and one union official familiar with the discussions said labor leaders and White House staff also explored the possibility of exempting or delaying health plans covered by collective bargaining agreemen...
