Wed, May 23, 2012
By Jesús Aguado and Sarah White
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain said on Wednesday its rescue of problem lender Bankia would cost at least 9 billion ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon will seek to provide Israel with an additional $70 million in the coming months for its short-range rocket shield, known ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
LANSING, MI (WKZO) -- The State of Michigan is projecting it will take in about 115-million more in revenue in the school aide fund this ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
By A. Ananthalakshmi
(Reuters) - Silicon Valley startup Pinterest raised $100 million from a group led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc, valuing the company ...
Fri, May 11, 2012
By Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Viddy, the popular mobile video start-up, announced on Friday it has raised a hefty $30 million from institutional ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday after a sloppy debut by Facebook Inc
Fri, May 04, 2012
By David Schwartz
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving ...
Sun, April 29, 2012
Actor Omar Epps joined the couple as they visited Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to increase spending for the arts in schools across the ...
Sat, April 28, 2012
Actor Omar Epps joined the couple as they visited Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to increase spending for the arts in schools across the ...
Fri, April 27, 2012
Actor Omar Epps joined the couple as they visited Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to increase spending for the arts in schools across the ...
Wed, April 25, 2012
TOKYO (Reuters) - The doubling of the International Monetary Fund's firepower, an increase in Europe's bailout fund and liquidity injections should be enough ...
Mon, April 23, 2012
By Melanie Lee and Stephen Aldred
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's hot Internet sector is facing a problem it is unaccustomed to: a ...
Thu, April 19, 2012
By Gernot Heller and Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global finance chiefs pressed Europe in weekend talks to quickly put in place the economic reforms ...
Wed, April 18, 2012
By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday member countries had committed $316 billion toward new IMF ...
Wed, April 18, 2012
The 30 Rock star delivered a lecture on arts policy to highlight the need for affordable public access to dance, theatre and live music ...
Tue, April 17, 2012
The 30 Rock star delivered a lecture on arts policy to highlight the need for affordable public access to dance, theatre and live music ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
(Reuters) - Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman vetoed a proposal to restore Medicaid-funded prenatal care for illegal immigrants on Friday, but the initiative could still survive ...
Wed, April 11, 2012
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It's well-known that clinical trials of cancer treatments often can't cover their costs. But a ...
Wed, March 28, 2012
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress averted a weekend shutdown of thousands of transportation construction projects on Thursday by passing a stopgap funding ...
Thu, March 22, 2012
By Julie Mollins
LONDON (Reuters) - A $1.7 billion funding shortfall to fight tuberculosis (TB) over the next five years means 3.4 million ...
Mon, March 19, 2012
LANSING (WKZO) -- Michigan schools will receive an extra 22-point-two-million dollars from the federal Education Jobs fund this spring. The Michigan Department of Education says ...
Thu, March 15, 2012
LANSING, MI (WHTC) - Grand Valley State University President Thomas Haas was among four chiefs of public colleges who addressed a hearing of the House ...
Mon, March 05, 2012
By Philipp Gollner
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A judge on Monday handed a victory to the San Francisco 49ers pro football team and backers ...
Sun, February 26, 2012
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Sunday adjourned the trial of pro-democracy activists accused of illegally receiving funds from abroad, a decision lawyers said ...
Mon, February 13, 2012
By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked on Monday for a 17 percent hike in the Food and Drug Administration's budget ...
Thu, February 09, 2012
LANSING (WKZO) -- Governor Rick Snyder proposes a three-percent funding increase for community colleges and universities based on new distribution formulas.
For community colleges funding ...
Wed, February 08, 2012
By Sharon Begley and Janet Roberts
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity defines its mission as finding a cure ...
Sun, February 05, 2012
By Edmund Blair and Marwa Awad
CAIRO (Reuters) - The cases of 40 foreign and Egyptian activists, including 19 Americans subject to travel bans over ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
By Lisa Lambert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican-sponsored transportation legislation that would radically change funding for public transit advanced in the House of Representatives on Friday ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood Federation of America welcomed on Friday the decision by breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure to resume ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
By George Georgiopoulos
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece formally launched a bond swap offer to private holders of its bonds on Friday, setting in motion the ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
By David Morgan and Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation backed down from its decision to cut funding ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
(Reuters) - Planned Parenthood said on Tuesday that the leading U.S. breast-cancer charity would no longer provide new funding to the group, which performs ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation aimed at relieving shortages of crucial drugs used to treat cancer and other illnesses may get momentum next ...
Fri, January 27, 2012
By Ros Krasny
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow ...
Wed, January 25, 2012
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the Global Fund, the largest backer of the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, will step down in March ...
Tue, January 24, 2012
By Yinka Adegoke
(Reuters) - Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc is leading a $12 million round of funding into a start-up company that analyzes tweets ...
Tue, January 24, 2012
By Yinka Adegoke
(Reuters) - Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc is leading a $12 million round of funding into a start-up company that analyzes tweets ...
Thu, January 19, 2012
By Liana B. Baker
(Reuters) - Video game publisher Trion Worlds has raised $85 million in a new round of funding as the privately held ...
Sun, January 08, 2012
(Reuters) - Greece should leave the euro zone and devalue its new currency unless Europe is willing to provide "massive" funding for the indebted country ...
Tue, January 03, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's effort to build a massive high-speed rail network suffered another setback on Tuesday when a peer review group charged ...
Thu, December 22, 2011
(Reuters) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday urged member countries to quickly sign off on an agreement last year to double IMF resources and ...
Wed, December 21, 2011
(Reuters) - Republican Governor John Kasich on Wednesday signed into law a measure that prohibits abortion coverage under the insurance exchange Ohio must create to ...
Wed, December 21, 2011
(Reuters) - Ohio Governor John Kasich on Wednesday signed a law that would prohibit abortion coverage from the state insurance exchange Ohio must create under ...
Tue, December 20, 2011
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese low-end smartphone maker Xiaomi has received $90 million in B-round venture capital funding from investors such as IDG Capital, Temasek Holdings ...
Tue, December 13, 2011
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Deaths from malaria have fallen dramatically in the past decade thanks to increased aid giving more people access to ...
Mon, December 12, 2011
By Richard Hubbard
LONDON (Reuters) - The euro held firm against the dollar, while European shares and gold moved higher on Thursday, after the U ...
Mon, December 12, 2011
PARIS (Reuters) - OECD countries face a growing risk of a refinancing pinch next year as they battle to secure investor confidence while rolling over ...
Thu, December 08, 2011
By Sarah McBride
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Consumers spent a record $1.25 billion on Cyber Monday, according to comScore, highlighting how much people love ...
Wed, December 07, 2011
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The fight against AIDS risks being set back years by a global financial crisis, the head of the ...
Tue, December 06, 2011
BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in Germany on Tuesday that the European Central Bank was playing a positive role in ...
Wed, November 30, 2011
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp
Wed, November 30, 2011
By Kate Kelland
(Reuters) - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding crisis ...
Wed, November 30, 2011
By Douwe Miedema
LONDON (Reuters) - Banks face a double hit to costs and revenues from a spate of credit rating downgrades, another burden for ...
Wed, November 30, 2011
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding ...
Fri, November 25, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's downgraded Belgium's credit rating to AA from AA-plus on Friday, saying funding and market risk pressures are raising the chances the country's financial sector will need more support.
S&P said difficulties in the country's banking system and the government's inability to respond to economic pressures contributed to the downgrade.
Belgium's government debt position has worsened in recent months, particularly after it bought the Belgian arm of failing French-Belgian bank Dexia
Borrowing costs have increased sharply in recent days. The country's benchmark 10-year yield rose one percentage point to 5.832 percent on Friday from 4.817 percent at the beginning of the week.
"We think the Belgian government's capacity to prevent an increase in general government debt, which we consider to be already at high levels, is being constrained by rapid private sector deleveraging both in Belgium and among many of Belgium's key trading partners," S&P said in a statement.
(Reporting by David Gaffen; Editing by Padraic Cassidy)
Fri, November 25, 2011
By Josie Cox and Alex Chambers
LONDON, Nov 25 (IFR) - European companies are in for a tough time next year. The euro zone debt ...
Fri, November 25, 2011
By Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks posted their best week since Christmas, even with a mixed finish on Friday after strong earnings from ...
Thu, November 24, 2011
By Wayne Cole and Vidya Ranganathan
SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - For weeks, Asian banks and businesses have seen their borrowing costs climb as cash-strapped European ...
Tue, November 22, 2011
By Marc Jones and Steve Slater
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone banks' demand for central funding surged to a two-year high on Tuesday, and ...
Tue, November 22, 2011
LANSING, MI (WKZO) -- Governor Snyder says Universities should have to meet performance criteria if they want all their state money, but college officials say ...
Fri, November 18, 2011
By Philipp Halstrick and Marius Zaharia
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Fear over European banks' exposure to risky government debt stalked markets and harried bank executives ...
Thu, November 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill to fund the government until December 16, the White House said, after it was ...
Mon, November 14, 2011
By Emelia Sithole-Matarise
LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks fell on Friday, extending an overnight slide, with renewed pressure on Spanish bonds reflecting fears the euro ...
Mon, November 14, 2011
UNDATED -- Conservation groups are concerned about what the congressional Super Committee might do to programs that affect recreation opportunities in Michigan, like this week ...
Tue, October 11, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business-software company Box has won $81 million in funding to expand its business, illustrating investors' continued appreciation for start-up companies that ...
Thu, October 06, 2011
By John O'Donnell and Huw Jones
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union executive flagged plans for a coordinated injection of funds into the ...
Tue, October 04, 2011
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that puts the government on stable financial footing for six ...
Tue, October 04, 2011
LANSING, MI (WTVB) - The struggle over school funding in Michigan isn’t over. If anything it will just get worse in the coming years ...
Mon, October 03, 2011
By David Bailey
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - One of two Minnesota women facing charges of raising money for the al Qaeda-affiliated Somali group al-Shabaab was cited ...
Fri, September 30, 2011
(Reuters) - The House of Representatives has proposed a cut in certain federal student aid funding in fiscal 2012, potentially hurting for-profit colleges.
The House ...
Wed, September 28, 2011
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are willing to try and find more money for highway and bridge ...
Wed, September 28, 2011
(Reuters) - The House of Representatives has proposed a cut in certain federal student aid funding in fiscal 2012, potentially hurting for-profit colleges.
The House ...
Mon, September 26, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives is expected to pass on Thursday a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown, a top Republican ...
Mon, September 19, 2011
By Suzi Parker
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A federal appeals court began reviewing a lower court order on Monday that would end state payments ...
Mon, September 19, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two scientists on Monday appealed a ruling that permitted federal funding of human embryonic stem research to go forward, an effort by ...
Thu, September 15, 2011
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate approved legislation on Thursday to temporarily renew funding for airport and highway improvement projects, averting threatened shutdowns of ...
Thu, September 15, 2011
The Russian project, based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil, won over the ...
Fri, September 09, 2011
By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund resources could prove to be sorely lacking if global financial conditions worsen and more countries turn ...
Tue, September 06, 2011
By Karen Pierog
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's administration warned on Tuesday that some state agencies will run out of money in ...
Thu, September 01, 2011
CHICAGO (Reuters) - South Dakota's Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state's school funding system even though a lawsuit raised "serious questions ...
Tue, August 30, 2011
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican lawmaker announced on Tuesday she was seeking to cut off U.S. funds to any United ...
Fri, August 26, 2011
The filmmaker and his partner Fran Walsh have been quietly funding the West Memphis Three investigation for years after they joined celebrities like Eddie ...
Thu, August 25, 2011
The filmmaker and his partner Fran Walsh have been quietly funding the West Memphis Three investigation for years after they joined celebrities like Eddie ...
Fri, August 19, 2011
By Sarah White and Marius Zaharia
LONDON (Reuters) - Soaring costs for borrowing dollars to fund the daily business of Europe's banks is hitting ...
Tue, August 16, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cloud-storage and file-sharing company Box.net is raising $35 million in new funding, underscoring again the appeal of one of Silicon ...
Mon, August 15, 2011
LONDON (Reuters) - The risk of a credit crunch in southern Europe is rising as banks face stress in their medium- to long-term funding, forcing ...
Thu, August 11, 2011
By Elliott Blackburn
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted a former Texas children's advocacy executive on charges of stealing more ...
Thu, August 11, 2011
By James Regan and Ian Simpson
PARIS/MILAN (Reuters) - A piecemeal ban on short-selling of financial stocks in Europe sparked a rush of alternative ...
Wed, August 10, 2011
By Steve Slater
LONDON (Reuters) - Four years to the week since global financial markets totally seized up, European bank funding is again in short ...
Thu, August 04, 2011
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government does not plan to go after more than $400 million in airline revenue from fare increases that ...
Wed, July 27, 2011
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Struggling Swedish car maker Saab
Tue, July 26, 2011
By Steven C. Johnson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A downgrade of the United States' AAA credit rating is a bigger risk than a default and ...
Sat, July 23, 2011
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration, the arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation responsible for air passenger safety, furloughed about 4,000 ...
Thu, July 21, 2011
MEMPHIS, Tenn (Reuters) - Memphis could see a late start to its school year after the school board, in a move that sent officials scrambling ...
Wed, July 20, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microblogging service Twitter is working on an $800 million funding deal that values the company at $8 billion, the website All ...
Wed, July 20, 2011
MEMPHIS, Tenn (Reuters) - Memphis city council and school board members were scrambling Wednesday to come up with solutions after the board voted to indefinitely ...
Wed, July 13, 2011
By Walter Brandimarte
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fitch Ratings on Wednesday downgraded Greece deeper into junk territory, citing the absence of a new and fully ...
Wed, July 13, 2011
By Douwe Miedema
LONDON (Reuters) - A Europe-wide test of the safety of its banks risks becoming a sideshow as long as politicians struggle to ...
Mon, July 11, 2011
By Sui-Lee Wee
BEIJING (Reuters) - It will be a "big mistake" for donors to cut funding to China in the fight against AIDS, the ...
Tue, July 05, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - LightSquared, the telecom start-up backed by Philip Falcone's Harbinger Capital hedge fund, said on Tuesday that it has raised $265 ...
Tue, June 28, 2011
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Annual funding for research and development (R&D) in the fight against malaria has quadrupled over 16 years, generating ...
Tue, June 28, 2011
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (Metro Source) - State House Democrats are pushing to get cuts to K-12 education restored by Governor Rick Snyder. The minority party ...
Sat, June 25, 2011
By Susan Guyett
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction preventing the state of Indiana from enforcing a law that eliminated ...
Thu, June 23, 2011
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alzheimer's experts urged U.S. lawmakers on Thursday to increase funding for research of the debilitating disease and ...
Tue, June 14, 2011
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. leadership on global economic issues could fade if Washington does not retain influence at the World Bank ...
Tue, June 14, 2011
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - European neuroscientists said on Tuesday that the withdrawal by some big drugmakers from research into illnesses like depression, schizophrenia ...
Thu, June 02, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WIBQ) -- The Health and Human Services Department is warning other states, don’t be like Indiana. HHS said yesterday that it’s ...
Sun, May 29, 2011
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's government said it needs $125 billion in funding over the next five years to finance a massive economic program aimed ...
Wed, May 25, 2011
(Lansing, MI) -- A state House-Senate committee as well as the full Senate approved a 15-percent funding cut to universities. A House-Senate conference committee also ...
Thu, May 19, 2011
(Lansing, MI) -- A plan is in the works to limit the per-student budget reductions for K-through-12 education to about 100 dollars per student. Governor ...
Thu, May 19, 2011
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Planned Parenthood would no longer get a million dollars in state and federal money for women’s health programs, under a ...
Tue, May 10, 2011
MARSHALL -- The Marshall school board has taken steps to prepare the district for what could be the deepest state funding cuts in history. In ...
Mon, May 09, 2011
FARMINGTON HILLS -- Senator Debbie Stabenow and Representative Gary Peters want Congress to expand funding for research and development of new advanced vehicle technologies. Peters ...
Wed, May 04, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives approved a measure on Wednesday to broaden a ban on federal funding of abortion and deny tax breaks ...
Sat, April 30, 2011
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - UW-Madison’s embryonic stem cell research won another temporary victory in a federal appeals court Friday.
An appellate court in Washington ...
Mon, April 25, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WIBQ) -- Supporters of an anti-tobacco program are working to restore its funding to the proposed state budget with just days left in ...
Wed, April 20, 2011
(Lansing, MI) -- Governor Snyder's proposed 470 dollar per student cut in school aid has been softened a bit by a state Senate subcommittee ...
Tue, April 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers are poised to cut spending on the United Nations by hundreds of millions of dollars, less than a week after U ...
Tue, April 12, 2011
By Joe Wessels
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Cincinnati's plan to build a streetcar line was dealt a setback Tuesday when a state agency pulled $51 ...
Mon, April 11, 2011
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - One of the state’s most popular programs could be jeopardized by the governor’s next budget.
Governor Scott Walker wants ...
Sun, April 10, 2011
The X-Men star is horrified by proposed government budget cuts which he claims will have a detrimental effect on the country's cultural institutions ...
Fri, April 08, 2011
Spacey was supposed to testify before Congress on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts but the hearing was cancelled in favour of ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona has restored funding for some organ transplants that the state cut last year in a controversial move to help close a ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
By Susan Cornwell and David Alexander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Nations is counting on continued strong financial support from the United States, Secretary-General Ban ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
(Lansing, MI) -- State university leaders are concerned about Governor Snyder's proposal to change how universities are funded. The Ann Arbor Republican told the ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
By Lisa Lambert
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal board will soon propose that U.S. states disclose more about their pension funding as worries ...
Wed, March 30, 2011
By Lisa Lambert and John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of bridges in the United States need major repair or replacement, and maintenance ...
Wed, March 30, 2011
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Russian Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies, an investor in social network company Facebook, has joined a group of investors funding hundreds ...
Sat, March 26, 2011
By Taiga Uranaka
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies' demand for funding has soared since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, with the country's top ...
Fri, March 18, 2011
By Wendell Marsh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to end federal funding for National Public Radio, following recent controversies that ...
Thu, March 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate's approval of a short-term funding bill gives Congress time to find common ground on a spending plan that will ...
Thu, March 17, 2011
By Wendell Marsh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted Thursday to end federal funding for National Public Radio, following recent controversies that entangled ...
Thu, March 10, 2011
By Elisabeth O'Leary and Sonya Dowsett
MADRID (Reuters) - Moody's downgraded Spain's sovereign debt rating on Thursday as it more than doubled ...
Sat, March 05, 2011
COLDWATER (WTVB) - A dim view for Branch County government budget planning when it comes to state funding in a number of areas emerged from ...
Thu, March 03, 2011
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin health insurers would no longer have to pay for birth control under Governor Scott Walker’s proposed new state budget ...
Wed, March 02, 2011
LONDON (Reuters) - British athletes are facing a funding shortfall which could affect their preparations for next year's Olympic Games in London, the British ...
Wed, March 02, 2011
LANSING (WKZO) - The State Senate last week approved about 100 million dollars in parks funding as part of the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund ...
Mon, February 21, 2011
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Internet music service Spotify is in the process of closing at least $100 million financing led by venture firm DST, according to ...
Thu, February 17, 2011
By Lisa Richwine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs more funding to help discourage staff turnover and help speed reviews ...
Thu, February 17, 2011
(Detroit, MI) -- It started as a joke on Twitter, but it now looks like a RoboCop statue could be built in Detroit. Organizers of ...
Wed, February 16, 2011
DETROIT (Reuters) - From sci-fi cult film, to Twitter phenomenon to Detroit landmark-in-the-making.
Plans for a statue honoring RoboCop, the half-man, half-machine crimefighter of the ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday said it would stop funding a multibillion-dollar U.S.-European missile defense program known as MEADS after ...
Tue, February 08, 2011
LANSING -- A Michigan House of Representatives committee has approved ten-million dollars to continue to the "Pure Michigan" ad campaign. The Natural Resources, Tourism, and ...
Fri, February 04, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday defended the agency's record for bringing credit crisis cases ...
Thu, January 27, 2011
By Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that Congress was causing a "crisis on my doorstep" by failing to approve Pentagon ...
Wed, January 26, 2011
By John Whitesides
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to eliminate public financing of presidential campaigns, calling the ...
Tue, January 25, 2011
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans threatened on Tuesday to use their new power as the majority in the House of Representatives to withhold ...
Mon, January 24, 2011
By Georgina Prodhan
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Startup website Foursquare has enough money to last it through to the end of the year and is ...
Thu, January 20, 2011
By Paul Day
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain is finalizing plans to find fresh funds for its troubled savings banks, officials said, prompting speculation the government ...
Fri, January 14, 2011
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Environmentalists are trying to kill U.S. funding for a massive power plant in South Africa that could bring new jobs ...
Wed, January 12, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp <CLWR.O> shares rose more than 1 percent after the wireless service provider said board member Ben Wolff is ...
Tue, January 04, 2011
By Emily Stephenson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican opponents of new U.S. food safety legislation are promising a fight over its funding and announced their ...
Thu, December 16, 2010
LANSING -- After much hand-wringing, the Pure Michigan tourism ad campaign has been granted the funding needed to continue in other states for the rest ...
Sun, December 12, 2010
By Anirban Nag
LONDON (Reuters) - Expectations of low U.S. interest rates and one-way bets against the dollar saw it emerge as the new ...
Fri, December 10, 2010
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- Western Michigan University officials may be angry at local state lawmakers for failing to include important funding in a capital outlay bill ...
Thu, December 09, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest overhaul of the U.S. food safety system in decades took a major step toward becoming law on Wednesday when ...
Thu, December 09, 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - The U.S. Transportation Department stripped Wisconsin Thursday of the $810 million in federal money the state was given to ...
Thu, December 09, 2010
Many arts initiatives are facing cutbacks as budgets are tightened in a bid to curb the country's spiralling debts.
But the X-Men star ...
Wed, December 08, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest overhaul of the U.S. food safety system in decades took a major step toward becoming law on Wednesday when ...
Mon, December 06, 2010
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives is likely to vote this week on a measure that could fund the new Dodd-Frank ...
Sun, December 05, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. officials have grown frustrated over the resistance of allies in the Middle East to help shut the financial pipeline ...
Fri, December 03, 2010
LANSING (WTVB) - After months of pure politics, the State Legislature has carved out 10-milion dollars save the popular and award-winning Pure Michigan Tourism Campaign ...
Mon, November 29, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Monday funding for a consumer protection office established under regulatory reform laws is ...
Wed, November 17, 2010
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oil industry groups on Wednesday urged U.S. lawmakers to allocate more money for the federal offshore drilling regulator ...
Thu, November 04, 2010
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Republicans will try to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law next year but their leader ...
Tue, November 02, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors announced charges on Wednesday against three men -- two in the United States and one in Africa -- for allegedly providing support ...
Tue, November 02, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of Kansas public school districts filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the state has again unconstitutionally short-changed students.
The lawsuit ...
Thu, October 28, 2010
By Gregg Kilday
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - George Clooney has lined up independent funding for "The Ides of March," a political drama which he ...
Fri, October 22, 2010
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will examine a report this weekend on an $8.7 billion rail tunnel after ...
Tue, October 12, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six U.S. states, primarily along the East Coast, have the highest level of education funding per student and also excel in ...
Tue, October 12, 2010
(Lansing, MI) -- After finding out that the state's general fund is 100 million dollars richer than projected, Governor Granholm is trying to save ...
Mon, October 11, 2010
LANSING -- After finding out that the state's general fund is 100-million dollars richer than projected, Governor Granholm is trying to save the Pure ...
Wed, October 06, 2010
(Lansing, MI) -- Police agencies around Michigan will share 8.3 million dollars in federal grants for anti-drug efforts. The money, which will be shared ...
Mon, October 04, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Global funding for malaria is less than half the $4.9 billion needed in 2010 to prevent and treat the disease that ...
Tue, September 28, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday agreed to permit federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research to continue pending a ...
Tue, September 28, 2010
By Andy Sullivan and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration may have to wait several months to implement parts of the landmark Dodd-Frank ...
Mon, September 27, 2010
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday pleaded with a U.S. appeals court to allow federal funding of human embryonic ...
Sun, September 26, 2010
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis is seeking to line up more funding to potentially raise its $18.5 billion bid for Genzyme Corp, The ...
Mon, September 20, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A federal judge says he’ll wait for the State Supreme Court to decide a lawsuit over the funding of elections ...
Wed, September 15, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani immigrant pleaded not guilty Wednesday to running an illegal money transfer business between Pakistan and the United States that ...
Tue, September 14, 2010
GENEVA (Reuters) - A push to protect millions of children against preventable diseases has hit financial trouble, with private donations for vaccines falling short, new ...
Wed, September 08, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court granted on Thursday an Obama administration request for a temporary stay that lifts a judge's ban ...
Fri, August 27, 2010
Montana Fishburne recently moved out of the actor's Los Angeles home after taking an ""embarrassing"" step into the adult movie market and appearing ...
Mon, August 16, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Monday it continues to see high demand for funds to build high-speed passenger rail ...
Thu, August 12, 2010
(Lansing, MI) -- The federal government is sending another 128-point-four million dollars to the Michigan State Housing Development Authority to prevent foreclosures. Governor Granholm said ...
Sun, August 08, 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - The federal government is reviewing state requests for long-term funding to reduce unintended pregnancies.
Approval of Wisconsin's application would ...
Thu, August 05, 2010
By Jasmin Melvin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican senator blocked a measure on Thursday that would have compensated black farmers in one of the largest ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
By Lisa Lambert and Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Monday killed a plan to send $26.1 billion dollars to states due ...
Tue, July 13, 2010
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Developers of China's Green Dam Internet filter have not received government funding in the past year, a local newspaper reported ...
Tue, July 06, 2010
By Doug Young and Kelvin Soh
HONG KONG (Reuters) - ICBC <1398.HK>, the world's most valuable lender, may raise up to $6.6 ...
Mon, July 05, 2010
By Doug Young
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Bank of China <3988.HK> <601988.SS> said its bid to raise up to $8.9 billion should ...
Thu, July 01, 2010
LANSING (WTVB) - the Michigan joint Conference Committee has kicked out its first Budget for next year, the funding for K-12 schools. It came just ...
Sun, June 27, 2010
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Startup website Foursquare, a location-based services company, is close to getting new funding that would allow it to expand, The Wall Street ...
Thu, June 24, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Federal stimulus dollars will improve broadband access for Wisconsin schools and libraries. The Legislature's budget committee has approved spending near ...
Tue, June 22, 2010
By JoAnne Allen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars in protection money to Afghan warlords, and potentially ...
Sat, May 29, 2010
COLDWATER (WTVB) - A new report issued this week shows why a bus load of teachers and parents from Branch County decided to attend a ...
Thu, May 27, 2010
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved funds Thursday to pay for President Barack Obama's Afghanistan troop increase but rejected a demand ...
Thu, May 27, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Backtracking by international donors in funding for HIV/AIDS may undermine years of progress and is already putting lives at risk, the ...
Fri, May 21, 2010
By Edith Honan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As U.S. cities and states grapple with mounting deficits, parks are often the first on the chopping ...
Sat, May 15, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have taken into custody at least two men who may have helped provide funding for a botched car-bombing in New ...
Tue, April 06, 2010
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Pressure from global recession and relentlessly rising costs of chronic disease will force healthcare systems across the world to ...
Fri, March 26, 2010
(Lansing, MI) -- A funding plan for the "Pure Michigan" ad campaign has failed in the state Senate. A 20-to-15 vote rejected a plan to ...
Thu, March 25, 2010
LANSING -- A funding plan for the "Pure Michigan" ad campaign has failed in the state Senate. A 20-15 vote rejected a plan to raise ...
Thu, March 18, 2010
By Sophie Hardach
PARIS (Reuters) - Funding to combat malaria must be more than tripled if the mosquito-borne disease which kills nearly a million people ...
Wed, March 17, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators jointly reminded financial institutions on Wednesday about the importance of managing their liquidity to avoid ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
LANSING (WKZO) -- Legislation approved by a State House committee would allow the Pere Marquette Amtrak line to continue operations through September. There had been ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
(Washington, DC) -- A total of 16 states were chosen from 41 applicants for federal stimulus money aimed at improving education. Michigan was not one ...
Tue, March 02, 2010
(Livonia, MI) -- University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman says cutting funding to higher education would be devastating. Coleman made the comments as she ...
Mon, February 22, 2010
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should end its state funding for homeopathic treatments because they are "scientifically implausible" and work no better than ...
Wed, February 17, 2010
By Stanley Carvalho
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - An international body fighting money laundering and terrorist financing will publish a blacklist this week of countries which ...
Wed, February 10, 2010
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (WHBL) - Governor Jim Doyle has approved funding for design engineering at Sheboygan County’s Memorial Airport.
With the state providing $136 ...
Wed, February 10, 2010
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Green Bay Bullforgs are working to get the funding to ensure the first pitch of 2011 is at a ...
Mon, February 08, 2010
By Rie Ishiguro and Tetsushi Kajimoto
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese bank lending logged its biggest annual fall in more than four years in January as ...
Thu, February 04, 2010
(Duluth, MN) -- Environmental advocates are openly disappointed that President Obama has scaled back federal dollars for fighting pollution on Lake Superior and the other ...
Fri, January 29, 2010
(Washington, DC) -- Congresswoman Candice Miller is not at all happy that Michigan is receiving only 40-million dollars in high-speed rail funding from the feds ...
Thu, January 28, 2010
WASHINGTON -- President Obama touched on the subject in his State of the Union speech, but will there be a high speed rail line between ...
Sun, January 24, 2010
By Yoko Kubota and Chisa Fujioka
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese opposition parties vowed on Sunday to pursue a funding scandal that has ensnared a ruling ...
Wed, January 13, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is broadening the standards for how the U.S. government funds public transportation projects in order to disburse money ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public and private funding for U.S. biological and medical research has slowed and resources from one major federal source shrank when ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
(Detroit, MI) -- Five Michigan companies will be among nine businesses in the midwest to share 187-million dollars in federal funding to improve vehicle efficiency ...
Fri, January 08, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to boost funding for the Pentagon in his fiscal 2011 budget but defense spending may ...
Wed, December 30, 2009
LANSING -- Some college students in Michigan are being hit even harder than expected by state spending cuts. Michigan's Tuition Grant and State Competitive ...
Mon, December 21, 2009
By Katherine Baldwin
LONDON (Reuters) - Relief agencies have been hit by the global recession and falling donations, forcing them to cut jobs and to ...
Fri, December 11, 2009
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - The Pentagon's fiscal 2011 budget and five-year defense plan will probably include funding for a new long-range bomber for the ...
Thu, December 03, 2009
LANSING -- The Michigan Senate has agreed to reforms that will put Michigan into the running for federal “Race to the Top” funding, which could ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
WASHINGTON D.C. (WRN) - Wisconsin Senate Democrat Russ Feingold is threatening to block funding for the 30,000 troops President Obama wants to send ...
Tue, December 01, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress likely will need to pass a separate spending bill next year to pay for President Barack Obama's ...
Fri, November 13, 2009
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – The local convention and visitors bureau will no longer fund the Badger State Winter Games but a spokeswoman for the game ...
Tue, October 20, 2009
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Michigan school districts face deep spending cuts in fiscal year 2010 as state revenue continues to sink due to the state's ...
Tue, October 13, 2009
DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen of Lebanese origin has been sentenced by a United Arab Emirates court to 18 months in prison on ...
Wed, October 07, 2009
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ada Yonath, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, talked ...
Mon, October 05, 2009
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Obama administration wants to ensure multilateral development banks have adequate resources, but any capital increase must be tied to institutional reforms ...
Wed, September 30, 2009
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday kept alive funding for 10 Boeing-made C-17 cargo planes that the Pentagon has said it ...
Wed, September 30, 2009
By Gabriel Madway
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - OnLive, the "cloud-based" service that is aiming to change the way consumers play video games, announced on Tuesday ...
Tue, September 22, 2009
By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter received $100 million in funding on Friday, valuing the company at $1 billion, according to a person ...
Thu, September 17, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's troubled public transit system has a $9.9 billion funding gap in its 2010-2014 capital program which it ...
Wed, September 16, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter is closing a round of funding that will value the company known for its 140-character, stream-of-consciousness blogs at $1 billion ...
Mon, September 14, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Express Co <AXP.N> announced on Monday a new line of certificates of deposit as part of the largest U ...
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