A man wanted in connection with the hijacking of a Pan Am flight to Cuba nearly 41 years ago was arrested in New York on Sunday, a Justice Department official said. Luis Armando Pena Soltren was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport for...

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Liz Rose Free Press.net Meanwhile FCC Moves to Force Cable to Open Up Access to Programming WASHINGTON — Comcast Corp. announced on Tuesday the launch of “TV Everywhere,” an online video service that is available only to Comcast cable subscribers....

Kristin Jensen Bloomberg.com Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, said he may be ready to vote for U.S. health-care legislation if lawmakers drop a planned government...

by Paul Krugman The New York Times originally posted December 13, 2009 When I first began writing for The Times, I was naïve about many things. But my biggest misconception was this: I actually believed that influential people could be moved by...

By William Douglas McClatchy Newspapers Opponents of the USA Patriot Act say that a congressional move to consider temporarily extending three key provisions that are due to expire at year’s end opens the door to try to alter or eliminate some of the...