WASHINGTON (AP) -- With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach. Bush signed an extension of ...
21 Nov 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - Verizon Wireless on Friday fired an unspecified number of employees it said had accessed President-elect Barack Obama's old cell phone records without permission. The firings ended an internal investigation into the matter. Verizon ...
21 Nov 2008
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed Thursday evening while delivering a speech to a prominent legal group and was rushed to George Washington University Hospital. "The attorney general is conscious, conversant and alert ...
21 Nov 2008
HAVANA (AP) _ Ace pitcher Yadel Marti and star outfielder Yasser Gomez have been thrown off Cuba's top league team for "a grave act of indiscipline," likely ending their hopes of playing in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. The one-sentence ...
21 Nov 2008
Update from Friday's practice in Calgary: Tomas Holmstrom did not practice, still bothered by back spasms, and coach Mike Babcock said he will not play Saturday against the Flames. Tomas Kopecky takes his place on the top line. Defenseman Niklas ...
21 Nov 2008
During the presidential campaign, he regularly attacked President Bush for surrounding himself only with people who told him what he wanted to hear. He promised that he wouldn't do that. Every president says he's going to foster this spirit of candor ...
21 Nov 2008
LOS ANGELES - The judge in the Lori Drew cyber-bullying case is considering whether to toss the case out of court. Just before 4 p.m. St. Louis time, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles rested their case against Drew, accused of overseeing the bullying of 13-year-old Megan Meier.
21 Nov 2008
President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Tim Geithner, president of the New York Federal reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, an official close to the incoming chief executive said Friday.
21 Nov 2008
CAMBRIDGE, England, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Inmates of a prison in the British county of Cambridgeshire lost out on a stand-up comedy course due to the inappropriateness of the class, officials say.
21 Nov 2008
A senior Syrian official on Friday all but ruled out new visits by U.N. inspectors probing allegations that his country had a covert program that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
21 Nov 2008
• Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson are reportedly trying out couples counseling because they're "fighting like cats and dogs." A chatty little source tells Page Six, "Drama...
21 Nov 2008
Australia's veteran prop Steve Price is ruled out of the Rugby League World Cup final with a calf injury.
21 Nov 2008
Like a handful of other high-profile manufacturers who have pulled out (including Rolls-Royce, Land Rover, Ferrari, Suzuki, and Porsche), the Japanese automaker based its decision on cost – the market for Mitsubishi automobiles in the ...
21 Nov 2008
But the past two years have brought a flurry of testimony and reports questioning the capacity of the U.S. government to carry out its foreign policy. They cite the relative underfunding of State Department personnel, ...
21 Nov 2008
No, you're not looking at some high-precision, multimeter-laden kegerator; the above is a picture from a recent AMD event in which things apparently got a little out of hand. The company started by talking up its upcoming Dragon ...
21 Nov 2008
“There’s very, very little volume that is trading and some forced sellers in small volume are just causing spreads to widen out,” said Robert Kapito, president of BlackRock Inc., a money-management firm. ...
21 Nov 2008
Three Reform rabbis urged the Texas State Board of Education to reject a science curriculum that could allow the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in the schools.
21 Nov 2008
Singer Ashlee Simpson has given birth to a baby boy, which she and her husband, Fall Out Boy 's Pete Wentz , have named Bronx Mowgli .
21 Nov 2008