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BERLIN (Reuters) - Wanted Nazi war criminal Dr Aribert Heim, thought until recently by some to be still alive, died in Cairo in 1992 after converting to Islam, German television station ZDF said on Wednesday. The state-run broadcaster said on its website that in a joint investigation with the New York Times, it had discovered Heim spent nearly 30 years in Cairo, having become a Muslim in th ...

By Donna Smith WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's push to revamp the costly and inefficient U.S. healthcare system was facing delay even before Tom Daschle, who was chosen to head the initiative, withdrew his nomination as health secretary. With the administration and Congress preoccupied with righting the foundering economy, work on Obama's promise to make affordable ca ...

By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers from steel-producing states insisted on Wednesday that a Buy American provision remain in a huge economic stimulus plan after President Barack Obama said Congress should look at dropping or changing the measure to avoid starting a trade war. "If it's not in, I'm not supporting this package and I'll bring a lot of votes with me," House T ...

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. peanut company at the center of a salmonella outbreak said on Wednesday federal and state regulators regularly visited a plant in Georgia that has been identified as the source of the contamination. At least 550 people, more than half of them children, have been sickened in the United States and Canada. The infection may have contribu ...

By Burton Frierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is hemorrhaging jobs and may not stop bleeding for at least another year even if the government acts quickly to stimulate the economy, according to reports released on Wednesday. The U.S. private sector cut more than half a million jobs in January, ADP Employer Services said, and other data showed planned layoffs at U.S. firms  ...

By Jeremy Pelofsky and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Tuesday offered their own, cheaper economic stimulus plans focused on tax cuts, pushing back against a $900 billion Democratic plan they say encourages too much new spending. As the Democratic-controlled Senate began thrashing out possible changes to the rescue package President Barack Obama has sought, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took steps to rein in corporate compensation on Wednesday, imposing a $500,000 cap on executive pay for firms that take government bailout money and limiting lavish severance packages. "As part of the reforms we are announcing today, top executives at firms receiving extraordinary help from U.S. taxpayers will have their compensation capped at $ ...

By Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harry Markopolos, a former financial executive who tried to blow the whistle on Bernard Madoff, told Congress that securities regulators had ignored his repeated pleas for a thorough investigation of the accused swindler's alleged $50 billion fraud. The failure of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to detect the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private sector job losses slowed slightly in January, ADP Employer Services said on Wednesday in a report that came in slightly below economists' expectations. ADP said private employers cut 522,000 jobs in January versus a revised 659,000 jobs lost in December. The December job cuts were originally reported at 693,000. Economists had expected 530,000 private sec ...

By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Electoral officials are examining serious complaints of vote fraud in Iraq's western Anbar province, where Sunni Arab tribal leaders are disputing provincial election results. The independent electoral commission has received a flood of complaints about fraud and other violations from the largely Sunni Arab province, Faraj al-Haidari, Iraq's senio ...