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“This macho attitude that police have starts at the police academy. Basic changes in how police are selected and trained need to be made.

ALBANY, Ga. – Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made about race to an NAACP audience, is unsure about returning to a government job, she said Friday. President Barack Obama told Sherrod he regretted her forced resignation and asked her to consider coming back

Eleven people died when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP The testimony of Michael Williams, an electronics technician, that emergency alarms on board the Deepwater Horizon were disabled weeks before it exploded, killing 11 workers and spewing more than 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, is the most damning evidence yet of shoddy maintenance and compromised safety systems on board the oil rig.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will visit U.S. auto plants in Michigan and Illinois next week to highlight his administration’s decision to rescue General Motors and Chrysler last year and revitalize the U.S. auto industry.

WASHINGTON (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — President Barack Obama will visit U.S. auto plants in Michigan and Illinois next week to highlight his administration’s decision to rescue General Motors and Chrysler last year and revitalize the U.S

WASHINGTON – Federal checks could begin flowing again as early as next week to millions of jobless people who lost up to seven weeks of unemployment benefits in a congressional standoff. President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law a restoration of benefits for people who have been out of work for six months or more

WASHINGTON – Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest “I’m sorry” of all Thursday — from a contrite President Barack Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back. Sherrod, who was forced to resign on Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin the federal government and transform “this misfortune” into a chance to use her life experiences to help people, said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

NEW YORK (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc are among those Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg will cite for having made “ill-advised” payments, the Wall Street Journal reported on its web site on Thursday. Feinberg is expected to formally criticize compensation practices at the banks on Friday as part of his review of 419 firms that received federal bailout funds. He will cite 17 such firms for making more than $1 billion in ill-advised payments, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Barack Obama receiving a briefing in the White House on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Pete Souza/AP Attempts to permanently solve the problem of the Macondo oil well that has spewed more than 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico have had to be pushed back as bad weather threatens to force the fleet of ships assembled around the stricken well to evacuate the area. A tropical depression that formed over the Bahamas was moving in the direction of the well located off Louisiana’s coast, with warnings that it could turn into a tropical storm along the west coast of Florida

CHICAGO, July 22 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Congress passed the most sweeping financial regulation legislation since the Great Depression, but most turnaround professionals surveyed predict the effort to rein in financial institutions will have little effect because most will find ways to skirt the new rules.  While nearly 60 percent of those responding to a Turnaround Management Association Flash Watch Poll doubt the legislation will have substantial effect, almost 30 percent expect the legislation will harm financial institutions by substantially decreasing their profits. Just under 10 percent of respondents said the legislation will have appreciable effect only when the next crisis emerges and five percent said it will decrease profits only somewhat. “The legislation is still open to very broad interpretation by the regulators,” said James B. Shein, Ph.D., professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management