So far in this NCAA tournament, the top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks are riding an easy-looking path toward the Final Four.Yet again.The Jayhawks returned to Alamodome on Thursday for the first time since winning their last national championship here in 2008. Most recall that overtime win over fellow top seed Memphis after first beating North Carolina to…

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is the body of asent today by ATR Tax Policy Director Ryan Ellis to Senator Tom Coburn (R-Ok.) in response to a :Dear Dr. Coburn:I write today in response to your letter of March 29, 2011, regarding your attempts to repeal the ethanol tax credit.First, Americans for…

The Grammy Awards 2011 are music's biggest show. Although the Grammy Awards 2011 are far from the first, or last, awards show of the year, it still towers over all the rest. They are the Oscars of the industry, so they fittingly air two weeks before the Oscars this year. While the biggest names in…

QUITO (AFP) – US oil giant Chevron's court-ordered indemnification of Ecuadoran communities for environmental pollution increases 10 percent to $9.5 billion under a provision in Ecuadoran law, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said Tuesday.The $8.6 billion penalty announced Monday did not include an additional 10 percent allowed under the law for environmental management costs, according…

TOKYO – Most Asian markets advanced after Wall Street pushed higher overnight despite a rate hike by China.Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average rose 0.2 percent to 10,659.01.Automakers advanced, with Toyota Motor Corp. leading the way. The issue surged 4.6 percent after raising its full-year earnings forecasts Tuesday, citing booming sales in China and other emerging…

WASHINGTON – Josh Smith scored 29 points and added a season-high 16 rebounds to lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 99-92 win against the Washington Wizards Saturday night.Atlanta has won the last 12 meetings. Overall, the loss extended the Wizards' losing streak to eight, a season high.Washington hasn't beaten the Hawks since an overtime win…

BRUSSELS – This is not a time of austerity for NATO, at least where its headquarters are concerned. The military alliance says its new complex will cost euro1 billion ($1.3 billion), a sum critics are calling unnecessary in a time of international belt-tightening.NATO officials defended the project Tuesday, saying maintenance costs for the "temporary" complex…

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's cultural glitterati have joined thousands of protesters from all walks of life calling for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak 30-year-rule.Khalid Abdalla, a British-Egyptian actor known for his lead role in the 2007 adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner," was among the crowd on Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) square on…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. authorities said on Tuesday they are investigating a New York coin dealer accused of selling phony September 11 commemorative coins supposedly made of metal from Ground Zero."These allegations are enormously troubling," said Jon Leibovitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which investigates consumer fraud.Two Democratic New York congressmen, Rep. Jerrold…

SYDNEY (AFP) – Papua New Guinea was rattled by a strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake Monday, seismologists said, but the deep tremor was unlikely to have caused damage or sparked a tsunami.The quake struck at a depth of 144 kilometres (90 miles), 40 kilometres southeast of Arawa in Bougainville at 11.14 am (0114 GMT), the United States…