CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp is beefing up its internal accounting controls after it incorrectly classified as much as $10.7 billion in short-term lending and repurchase deals for mortgage securities as sales, according to a letter filed on Friday with U.S....
LISBON FALLS, Maine (Reuters) - Maine Senator Olympia Snowe said on Saturday she has not decided which way to vote on crucial financial reform legislation, with the most important thing being "to get it right."
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The government is taking a new approach in its effort to crack down on illegal workers by quietly auditing the employment records of thousands of companies suspected of hiring undocumented immigrants rather than staging high-profile worksite raids, the New York Times reported...
PORT ELIZABETH (Reuters) - Germany and Uruguay will hope to salvage some pride in their third-place playoff match on Saturday after devastating semi-final defeats earlier this week.
KABUL (Reuters) - Foreign troops in Afghanistan killed six civilians and wounded several others with stray artillery fire just a day after a NATO air strike accidentally killed five Afghan government soldiers.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it was willing to return to nuclear disarmament talks and signaled satisfaction that a U.N. Security Council statement did not lay blame on it for the sinking of a South Korean navy ship.
MALIBU, Calif./NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - BP was set on Friday to install a bigger cap that could contain almost all the oil leaking from its blownout Gulf of Mexico well, a top U.S. official said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin said on Friday that he would call the state legislature back into session next week to set an election to replace the late Senator Robert Byrd, a move that could complicate the drive to pass financial-reform legislation through Congress.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson provided additional details on Friday about its two most recent recalls of Tylenol and other over-the-counter drugs, saying the actions on Thursday and June 15 involved a total of about 3 million bottles of the medicines.