WASHINGTON (CBS) ― Obama has named longtime spokesman Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary, CBS has learned. Gibbs went to work for Obama's Senate campaign in 2004 and was communications...
AP - Oil prices fell to a 3-year low below $49 a barrel Friday in Asia as plunging stock markets, driven down by more bad U.S. economic news, battered investor confidence.
AP - Authorities are investigating battery allegations against Emmy-winning actor Brad Garrett in an incident involving a photographer in West Hollywood.
Video: Boy calmly talks about day of dad's death An 8-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting his father and another man is shown in a video calmly telling law enforcement officers that he found the ...
San Salvador, El Salvador - The secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) said Thursday in San Salvador that the current global financial crisis should not lead to a drastic change in the world economic system. I do not think th...
The claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Martin Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months.
An 11-year-old leukemia patient inspires food drives across the country. For 11-year-old Brenden Foster of Bothell, Wash., who was given that prognosis earlier this year after learning he was sufferin...
MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for migrants missing after their boat ran aground east of downtown Miami. Border Patrol spokeswoman Elee Erice says 33 people have been a...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. — with its re-emphasis on low prices — is among the few retailers performing well in what has become an increasingly bleak consumer spending climate.
Texas tent living still common 2 months after Ike Truong Van Cao and two other fishermen share a cramped, muddy tent amid the wreckage of homes, including his own, destroyed when Hurricane Ike stormed...
London - The political leaders of Northern Ireland Wednesday hailed the election of Barack Obama as the next US president and said they wished to continue their mutual beneficial relationship with the United States. Peter Robinson, the Protestant l...
(AP Photo/Darron Cummings)Edna Parker holds a rose that she was given during a birthday party for her in Shelbyville, Ind., in this Friday, April 18, 2008 file photo. Parker passed away Wednesday Nov....
Obama cabinet pick gives Ariz a Republican gov President-elect Barack Obama's announcement Monday that Gov. Janet Napolitano is his choice to head the Department of Homeland Security means a Republica...
Pandit denies break-up as Citi tumbles By Julie MacIntosh and Saskia Scholtes in New York Published: November 21 2008 19:01 | Last updated: November 22 2008 00:01
Reuters - Stocks in Japan and Australia fell Wednesday after a report showed the U.S. economy shrank by the most since 2001, underscoring sharply slowing global demand, while South Korean shares were boosted by steelmakers after BHP Billiton killed its bid for Rio Tinto.
Australian surfing celebrity Koby Abberton received a three-day sentence Thursday for brawling with an off-duty police officer outside a Honolulu restaurant.
Canada's Conservative government said Friday that it plans to fast-track the immigration process for skilled workers in high-demand occupations, drawing criticism from the country's opposition leaders that the new rules are unfair.
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