Mercer, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Atlantic Timberframes provides additional timber framing options as a custom timber frame home builder focused on one thing -- building customers their timber frame dream ... Read More

By Mark Hosenball and David Ingram

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government formally acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it had killed four Americans, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

Attorney ... Read More

By Alina Selyukh and Liana B. Baker

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp is ramping up its Washington-centric campaign to thwart Japanese firm SoftBank Corp's bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, hoping to convince lawmakers and government reviewers that it poses national security ... Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday, a White House official said.

He will discuss why the use of drone strikes is necessary, legal, and just, while addressing the various issues raised by our use of target... Read More

By Alex Dobuzinskis

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Councilman Eric Garcetti declared victory Wednesday in his bid to become the next mayor and vowed to put the city's economic slump in the rear-view mirror, capping a race shaped by dire fiscal forecasts and questions about the p... Read More

By Elvina Nawaguna

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House threatened on Wednesday to veto a Republican bill to switch federal student loan interest rates to a market-based system, arguing the plan would create more uncertainty for students and families.

Under the legi... Read More

(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley's head of fixed income, Ken deRegt, is retiring from the firm, according to internal bank memos obtained by Reuters, after the company sustained a more than 40 percent decline in bond trading revenue in the first quarter.

The bank's fixed income business ... Read More

By Ian Chua

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The dollar hovered at a near three-year high against a basket of major currencies in Asia on Thursday, having risen broadly as Treasury yields jumped on the prospect that the Federal Reserve might scale back its stimulus program this year.

By Eric Kelsey

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines.

It is Wolf... Read More

By Paul Eckert

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Theft of trade secrets, chiefly by China, costs the U.S. economy $300 billion a year and must be fought with sanctions as tough as those used against terrorism and drug trafficking, an advisory panel said on Wednesday.

The Commiss... Read More

By Barbara Liston and Mark Hosenball

ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his possible links to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed by a federal agent in Florida on Wednesday after he suddenly turned violent, th... Read More

By Mary Wisniewski

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Board of Education voted on Wednesday to close 50 schools - including about 10 percent of all elementary schools - in the largest mass school closing in the nation.

The closings in mainly Hispanic and African-American... Read More