NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -Sam Bradford has all the impressive numbers that go along with a Heisman Trophy campaign: a few dozen touchdown passes, an impeccable quarterback rating and right around two miles worth of passing yards. Graham Harrell has all ...
21 Nov 2008
DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- Last week's presidential debate was supposed to cover foreign policy issues, but the ongoing market meltdown was too big to ignore. Just the same, when the debate turned to global matters, John McCain and Barack Obama responses ...
21 Nov 2008
Nov 21st, 2008 | LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Kentucky amusement park says it has reached a settlement with the family of a Louisville teen whose feet were severed after an accident on a ride last year. Kaitlyn Lasitter was 13 when a cable broke as she was ...
21 Nov 2008
Scientists used radar probes aboard the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to help discover low, wide glaciers about half a mile thick can be found under layers of rocky debris on Mars. This discovery is the biggest find of water away from the planet's ...
21 Nov 2008
Peter Baker of the New York Times — once my next-door neighbor in Adams-Morgan! — quotes “two confidants” of Hillary Rodham Clinton saying she’s going to accept Barack Obama’s offer to become secretary of state. “She’s ready,” the ...
21 Nov 2008
By any measure, CBS' "NCIS" is a trouper: a show whose ratings continue to rise over time, a show that you can put on against the toughest competition - "Dancing With the Stars," "American Idol" - and it will still perform reliably. It's particularly ...
21 Nov 2008
U.S. stocks rally on report President-elect Barack Obama would nominate Timothy Geithner to be the nation's Treasury secretary.
21 Nov 2008
Stocks Rally On Report Geithner Will Be Tapped For Treasury
21 Nov 2008
Oil Futures End Slightly Higher, But Drop 13% On The Week
21 Nov 2008
A spokesman for Hillary Rodham Clinton says the New York senator is still in discussion over whether to accept the secretary of state's job, though the talks are "very much on track."
21 Nov 2008
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rebounded from an 11-year low on expectations President-elect Barack Obama will nominate New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy Geithner to head the Treasury.
21 Nov 2008
A U.S. amusement park has reached a settlement with the family of a Louisville teen whose feet were severed after an accident on a ride last year.
21 Nov 2008
Good News on Mukasey. 11.21.08 -- 11:21AM. By Josh Marshall. The initial reports of Attorney General Mukasey's collapse last night sounded very grim. But his friends and family must now be breathing a deep sigh of relief. ...
21 Nov 2008
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of the leading voices for peace, justice and human rights around the world. He was a central figure in the South African struggle against apartheid and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in ...
21 Nov 2008
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times both have scoops this morning on what Citi is planning to do about its plunging fortunes. Problem is, their scoops are diametrically opposed—one paper’s got to be wrong here. ...
21 Nov 2008
One glacier is three times the size of the city of Los Angeles and up to a half-mile thick, NASA said.
21 Nov 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this ...
21 Nov 2008
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21 Nov 2008