Blackwater Guards Get Iraqi Death Charges Dismissed (Update3)

Five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards won dismissal of manslaughter and weapons charges in the 2007 deaths of 14 Iraqi civilians in a hail of gunfire and explosives at a busy Baghdad intersection.

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New York City Murders Set to Reach 46-Year Low, Kelly Reports

Major crime in New York City declined for the 19th consecutive year, and 2009 may end with the fewest homicides since recordkeeping began in 1963, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

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Fed Discusses Limited Bond Sales to Withdraw Stimulus (Update1)

Federal Reserve officials are considering a proposal to schedule limited sales of bonds from the central bank’s $2.2 trillion balance sheet as part of a range of tools for withdrawing record monetary stimulus.

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‘Avatar’ Tops Record Week as Hollywood Closes 2009 (Update1)

The U.S. box office will set a weekly record of almost $500 million in the final days of 2009 on sales from “Avatar,” “Sherlock Holmes” and “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” according to Hollywood.com.

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Seven CIA Workers Killed in Afghanistan, Six Injured (Update3)

Seven CIA employees were killed and six others injured in yesterday’s terrorist attack at a base in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, the agency said in a statement today.

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