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Cook Medical Inc. had been planning to open five new manufacturing plants over the next five years in small communities around the Midwest, including Indiana, but has shelved those plans because of the hit it will take from a new U.S. tax on medical devices. The Bloomington-based medical device maker estimates it will pay between $20 million and $30 million once the tax takes effect in January, Pete Yonkman, executive vice president of strategic business units at Cook Medical, said this week. The 2.3-percent tax on sales of all medical devices was created as part of President Obama’s 2010 health...

A spokeswoman for Moscow's busiest airport says 35 people have been killed by an explosion in its international arrivals hall. Domodedovo Airport spokeswoman Yelena Galanova made the statement Monday on Russia's NTV television. Other officials put the death toll at 31 and said about 130 people were injured in the explosion Monday afternoon. President Dmitry Medvedev said it looked like a terror attack and the state RIA Novosti news agency said the blast may have been set off by a suicide bomber.

At least 31 people have been killed and 130 wounded by a bomb blast at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. Domodedovo is the city's largest and busiest air facility. Unnamed sources say that a Chechen Islamic terrorist group, the Caucasus Emirate, is believed to be behind the attack. The same group employed women as female suicide bombers in the bombing of the Moscow Metro subway last March. 40 people were killed in that attack...

This weekend a number of incidents took place in Domodedovo Airport, Moscow. On Saturday morning a Boeing 757 bound for Naples (Italy) had to return to Moscow due to a crack of the windscreen in the pilot’s cabin which occurred at a height of 10600 metres.

Washington, D.C. – – Frontiers of Freedom Institute today voiced opposition to approval by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) of a $2.3 billion bailout for the privately-held Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DM&E), orchestrated by DM&E lobbyist-turned-U.S. Senator John Thune. "The American taxpayer is being railroaded again,” said George Landrith, President of Frontiers of Freedom Institute. “This enormous government giveaway is a textbook example of a stealth pork project that drives up the federal deficit. Congress and the President should put a stop to it.” “The loan and the secret way it was engineered are outrageous. We don’t even know...