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Facebook Twitter Reddit Google Share Email Related Stories â–  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on hand as Thomson Reuters announces 400 new jobs in Toronto Thomson Reuters Corp said on Tuesday it would cut about 2,000 jobs worldwide, about four per cent of its workforce, and take a fourth-quarter charge of $200 million to $250 million to streamline its business. The restructuring across 39 countries and 150 locations would mainly affect the company's financial and risk business and its enterprise, technology and operations group, the news and information company said. The company employs about 48,000 people globally, a spokesman said. Thomson...

CSPAN is airing the leftist “One Socialist Nation” rally today in Washington DC. Unfortunately, they didn’t have a good crowd shot of the turnout… So they used a photo from a Glenn Beck tea party rally. Notice the Gadsden flags in the background. Hat Tip EdThis is despite the fact that thousands of supporters were given free rides by unions and the NAACP to the rally. The actual crowd is a little sparse at the One Nation rally today.Despite the free rides and T-shirts the leftists just couldn’t match this crowd.This photo is from the Glenn Beck rally last month.

Hundreds of Cars Torched in France at New Year Fri Jan 1, 2010 PARIS (Reuters) - Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year's Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday. Car burnings are regular occurrences in poor suburbs that ring France's big cities, but the arson is especially prevalent during New Year's Eve revelry. The number of vehicles torched was only 10 short of the record 1,147 burned this time last year, even though the Interior Ministry mobilized 45,000 police during the night -- 10,000 more than 12 months ago.

All but two GOP presidential candidates have committed to voters to oppose income tax increases WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among the 2008 presidential field, all but two of the Republican candidates -- Sens. John McCain and Fred Thompson -- have made a written commitment to the American people promising to oppose and veto income tax increases. Sen. McCain signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge as a candidate for president in 2000, and has signed and kept the Pledge as a Senator. For two decades, Americans for Tax Reform has asked all presidential and federal candidates to commit to their constituents,...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops to stabilize the war-torn country, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. The ministry released the new figures as bomb blasts in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul killed five people and six gunmen died in clashes with police in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala south of the Iraqi capital.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government has lost control of vast areas to powerful local factions and the country is on the verge of collapse and fragmentation, a leading British think-tank said on Thursday. Chatham House also said there was not one civil war in Iraq, but "several civil wars" between rival communities, and accused Iraq's main neighbors -- Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- of having reasons "for seeing the instability there continue." "It can be argued that Iraq is on the verge of being a failed state which faces the distinct possibility of collapse and fragmentation," it said in...

Critics of the Iraq war said on Tuesday the Bush administration's failure to replenish vital National Guard equipment sent to Iraq caused Kansas to fall short in responding to last week's tornado disaster, and other states were equally vulnerable. The White House and the Pentagon rebuffed the criticism, saying Kansas and other states had adequate resources that they could share in event of disasters like the Kansas tornado that leveled one small town on Friday and killed 10 in the area. The debate was ignited by Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, who said on Monday the federal government had...

France's Canal+ station on Thursday pulled the plug on a TV debate between Socialist presidential contender Segolene Royal and defeated centrist Francois Bayrou, citing election equal airtime rules. Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy, her rightwing rival in a May 6 run off, are battling for the hearts and minds of some 7 million voters who backed Bayrou in a first round election on Sunday. But Canal+ television, which had organized the Royal-Bayrou debate with i-Tele and France Inter radio, said in a statement the debate could not go ahead as planned at midday on Saturday. "(The) rules impose a strict equality...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four years after he began the Iraq war, a diminished President George W. Bush has sacrificed much of his domestic agenda and eroded U.S. credibility abroad in pursuit of the sort of nation-building he once scorned, analysts say. The president's job approval ratings have fallen from 90 percent shortly after the September 11 attacks to just over 30 percent. He forfeited the dream of cementing Republican control over Congress and his administration is increasingly under fire from Democrats and Republicans alike. "There is simply no question in my mind that the Iraq war has substantially undercut Bush's...