Charles R. Black Jr. , a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, is returning to his former profession: lobbying. Mr. Black will go back to his former lobbying firm, BKSH and Associates, and will resume his old title of chairman. The firm ...
21 Nov 2008
CHICAGO - PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama has selected Mr Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary, charging the respected head of the New York Federal Reserve with pulling the United States out of an economic nosedive, NBC news reported on Friday. Mr ...
21 Nov 2008
LIMA - US PRESIDENT George W. Bush on Friday was to urge Chinese President Hu Jintao in a meeting here on Friday to call a new round of North Korea denuclearisation talks for early December, the White House said. 'Our primary goal is to get back to ...
21 Nov 2008
Two years after Alexander Litvinenko died in agony at a London hospital, the man accused of murdering him with radioactive poison is prepared to come to Britain to be questioned by Scotland Yard. Andrei Lugovoy, looking fit and relaxed, made the ...
21 Nov 2008
(AP) NEW YORK - The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says Libya wants to put some of its $100 billion investment fund into American business and send thousands of students to study in the United States. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi also says he expects ...
21 Nov 2008
E-Mail Story (CBS/ AP) CBS News has confirmed that Sen. Hillary Clinton has decided to accept the offer to join President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet as Secretary of State, according to a senior Clinton adviser. The adviser told CBS News that Obama ...
21 Nov 2008
Houstonist presents one more teaser to help entice you to come to the Benefit for Mr. Projector Saturday at Aurora Theater. Mr. Projector is portrayed by Houston resident Aaron Bell, a film lover who collects and restores 16 mm education films. Ball was involved in a freak scooter accident that eventually resulting in him having to undergo open-heart surgery. The benefit will ...
21 Nov 2008
Mr. Martino’s Trattoria is a gateway to a different era and a unique Philadelphia dining experience.
21 Nov 2008
BYU's 'Mr. BYU' competition will be held Friday night at seven in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium; admission is free.
21 Nov 2008
Small-cap stocks opened higher but quickly slipped into negative territory, as a bounce in banking and commodity stocks and a rise in overseas equities was countered by weak profit reports for a...
21 Nov 2008
The 2007 winner Mister Pointment heads a field of 16 for the Becher Chase at Aintree on Sunday.
21 Nov 2008
The search for Mr H - the mysterious man at the centre of the investigation into the multimillion-rand Gautrain land-expropriation fraud - has unearthed nothing besides more questions about how far the rot went.
21 Nov 2008
Mr Justice Ryder's Conkerton Memorial Lecture 'The Autonomy of the Citizen in the Context of Family Law Disputes' has been published (in PDF form) on the Judiciary website. In it, and not for the first time, Mr Justice Ryder gives his ...
21 Nov 2008
So, while I'm thinking about it, I might as well announce the 2008 version of Mr. Big Dubya's Bloggers' Mantel™. Wondering what the hell I'm talking about? Look back through my archives for 2005 and 2006 or go here and look at 2007's ...
21 Nov 2008
Even Graham Polak can't believe what happened to him on the fateful night. - Realfooty.
21 Nov 2008
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20 Nov 2008
In an Ideas piece, author says that Republicans lost because they isolated too many.
20 Nov 2008
The cynic in me wonders if there's some sort of method to the madness. Maybe they really do want the economic base to be so gutted that the incoming Obama administration is handcuffed if not fully accessorized with cement shoes....
20 Nov 2008