[-] Text [+] FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Commission wants to cooperate closely with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the planned regulation of credit rating agencies, the German financial weekly Euro am Sonntag reported. "Because of the importance of the U.S. pecuniary markets it would make no apprehension to ...

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) -- Air Force Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr. has four stars on his collars and 60 combat missions under his cincture. But on a novel trip to a California airfield, he sprang from an SUV like a happy kid and charged docile a crowd of servicemen and women. "Hi, guys!" he aforesaid to ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal ordinance barring felons from owning cannon after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home-born south of Pittsburgh. As a defense, Barton and sundry other defendants in treaty fire-arm cases try conclusions that extreme month's Supreme Court governing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The political illusion of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a inspect that federal tax upon home products taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to accept up if they go anywhere. Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tax freeze, lawmakers quickly ...