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Chicago, Nov.24 : Moving to Washington will be particularly jarring for incoming US First Lady Michelle Obama, whose social and professional life is interwoven with Hyde Park in Chicago.
Struggling U.S. automakers are requesting an additional $50 billion in new loans from Congress to help them survive tough economic conditions and pay for health care obligations for retirees, officials said Friday.
Reuters - A two-storey school partially collapsed in Haiti's capital on Wednesday and at least nine people were taken to hospital, five days after another school collapse that killed 95 people, officials said.
New York ties, a contingent local politicians and observers say would provide a powerful outlet for the state to be heard in the new administration. "Now we have an E-ZPass to the
Barack Obama will assume the U.S. presidency with "a real mandate for change," and likely will use his executive powers to make quick changes, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and oil exploration.
PARIS -- The Socialist Party says former Labor Minister Martine Aubry has won an extremely tight race to head France's main opposition party. The party says Aubry edged out 2007 presidential candidat...
statement on Joe Lieberman's future: "We aren't going to referee decisions about who should or should not be a committee chair." Bloggers can't seem to agree on whether that's good news for ...
AP - "So, where were we?" That was the bit of humor former Vice President Al Gore delivered Friday in Florida, the state that dashed his White House dreams eight years ago after a confusing ballot, dimpled punch cards, hanging chads and a Supreme Court decision that stopped a 36-day recount.
SUDDENLY, NOTHING was a problem for the Eagles last night, in a 48-20 victory over the Arizona Cardinals. Third-and-1? Kyle Eckel in a cameo, up the gut for 2. Third-and-23? Throw it to DeSean Jacks...
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they won’t charge Eliot Spitzer for his role in a prostitution scandal, removing a legal cloud that’s surrounded the former New York governor since h...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILMINGTON, N.C. -- An airport official says a Virgin Atlantic jet carrying nearly 350 people has made an emergency landing after crew members felt heat coming from the plane's...
On Sunday, deputies shoot, kill a man who pulled a handgun on them in East L.A. On Saturday, police shoot, wound a man during an altercation at a South L.A. liquor store.
Three unrelated shootings involving officers occurred in Los Angeles County over the weekend, leaving one man dead and another seriously injured, authorities said today.
Reuters - Americans woke with joy, cautious optimism and frank worry on Wednesday after the historic win by Democrat Barack Obama, who went from long shot to president-elect on the promise of change.
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. From California to Maine, police have documented a ra...
NEW YORK -- A perfume company is claiming Prince and his music publisher failed to honor a contract to help market a fragrance named for the album “3121.”
AP - It's long been an unwritten rule of political campaigns: The candidate's spouse is a cheerleader and a surrogate, but not an attacker. Yet there was Cindy McCain this month, introducing her husband at a Pennsylvania rally with an angry reference to Barack Obama and his vote against a bill funding the troops in Iraq.
CHICAGO (AP) ― OK, dad won the presidency, but the election victory yielded a special bonus for Barack Obama's two daughters. "I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that's ...
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