Chrysler rushed to clinch deals with Fiat and a fractious group of lenders on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to avoid bankruptcy ahead of a government-imposed April 30 restructuring deadline. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter, those efforts hit a major roadblock late in the...
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Same-sex marriage bill passed in N.H. Senate
The New Hampshire Senate have voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, setting the state in motion to become the fifth in the country to legalize same-sex marriage. New Hampshire’s House of Representatives has already approved the bill, but the Senate amended the language slightly before passing it on a 13-to-11 vote, meaning the...
Swine Flu: A new Killer Virus
Swine flu emerged in Mexico months earlier than previously thought, the country’s health minister has said, giving possible clues about the origins of the killer virus. Officials had previously said that the first recorded case of the H1N1 virus in Mexico was from a woman who died in the southern state of Oaxaca on...
