| | | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Discovery took off on its final voyage on Tuesday, on a piggyback jet ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex. | |  | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Groundbreaking on homes fell unexpectedly in March, but permits for future construction rose to their highest level in 3 1/2 years, Commerce Department data showed on Tuesday. | | | | | | | CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sat patiently through diatribes, interruptions and even the occasional eye-ball roll at the weekend Summit of the Americas in an effort to win over Latin American leaders fed up with U.S. policies. | | | | | | | BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Five years after a mentally ill student gunned down 32 people at Virginia Tech, the university held classes on Monday for the first time on the anniversary of the country's deadliest mass shooting and 10,000 mourners attended a nighttime vigil. | | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce a plan on Tuesday to increase oversight and "crack down" on oil market manipulation, the White House said. | | | | | | | SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - New Mexico tourism officials on Tuesday are launching a new slogan, "New Mexico True," that they hope will change perceptions of the state as "barren," "dull" or merely "close to Arizona," as focus-group participants said last year. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - A judge has dismissed radio shock jock Howard Stern's lawsuit accusing Sirius XM Radio Inc of failing to pay him stock awards he claimed were due for helping the satellite radio company exceed growth targets. | | | | | | | MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A Wisconsin couple accused of starving and imprisoning their teenage daughter in a basement for six years including forcing her to eat her own bodily waste and do chores in the nude, were charged with more abuse on Monday. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service said on Monday it revoked the top security clearance of 11 agents and uniformed division personnel over alleged misbehavior in Colombia, and a U.S. official said more than 10 military service members may also have been involved. | | | | | | | SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A welder's torch ignited a small fire on the roof of a building at a nuclear research laboratory in Idaho on Monday, prompting an evacuation, but no one was hurt and no radioactive material was involved, lab officials said. | | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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