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Preseason or postseason, Maya Moore is making a habit of racking up honors.
Luke Harangody should get used to being on top of lists.
Just a year after this one-time Confederate state helped elect a black man president, Democrats are desperately trying to hang onto the governorship.
Capping a year in which he faced shareholder fury, regulatory scrutiny and was stripped of his chairman post, outgoing Bank of America Corp. CEO Ken Lewis will get no salary or bonus for 2009 under an agreement with the government's pay czar.
RailAmerica Inc. said its shares, which begin trading Tuesday, priced at $15 each, raising about $330 million.
They became good buddies during the war, the young American soldier and his invaluable Iraqi translator, an easygoing guy who could spot dangers in the shadows and calm jittery nerves in the streets.
When many Americans who served or worked in Iraq came home, they left behind Iraqi friends whose lives were at risk because of their U.S. connections. Some soldiers and others, frustrated with the government efforts to help the Iraqis, embarked on their own rescue missions. Here are two of their stories:
Her mansion in Iraq was bombed, her medical career and future in her beloved country dashed the day she found a white envelope on her car windshield. Inside was a single bullet. Wassan Yassin was marked for death.
On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty.
There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale.
GM's Saturn division started out with high hopes a quarter-century ago, but nothing worked out quite as planned. The brand is being eliminated after a deal to sell it fell through.
Ken Lewis' legacy as CEO of Bank of America Corp. will likely be determined by whether his successor can do what Lewis couldn't: prove that the bank's messy acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. was worth the money.
While some were moved to tears by the president's soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those who felt he was overreaching in some ways and not reaching far enough in others.
The chief executive of coal mining giant Massey Energy blasted supporters of climate-change legislation and other environmental issues affecting the coal industry at a free Labor Day concert and rally in southern West Virginia.
South American presidents wrangled for hours Friday over a pending deal to expand the U.S. troop presence in Colombia, closing their meeting with a statement that foreign troops should not be allowed to threaten any of the region's nations.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has raised the stakes for Friday's meeting of South American presidents by threatening to break relations with Colombia over plans to give U.S. troops a 10-year lease on its bases.
Bank of America Corp. said Monday that credit card losses and delinquencies edged lower in July.
Shares of Bank of America shot up Thursday as a new executive at the bank, as well as a prominent hedge-fund manager, decided to place big bets on the company by buying up blocks of shares.
The hedge fund run by John Paulson, who foresaw the distress in subprime mortgages and reaped billions by betting against the related securities, has bought about 168 million shares of Bank of America Corp., according to a regulatory filing Wednesday.
A federal judge said Monday he needs more information before he can decide whether to approve a $33 million settlement between Bank of America Corp. and the Securities and Exchange Commission over executive bonuses.
South American presidents expressed deep concerns Monday with a planned U.S. military expansion in Colombia, but failed to reach consensus on a joint statement rejecting U.S. long-term leases on Colombian bases.
Bank of America Corp.'s reported that its better than expected second-quarter profit was boosted by the bank's foreign operations.
It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico's bloody drug war tossed into a public place.
A judge has ordered a hearing on a $33 million proposed settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America Corp. over executive bonuses.
Peaceful preaching inside, violent message outside a New York mosqueProtected by the Constitution of the country they detest, radical Muslim converts like Yousef al-Khattab and Younes Abdullah Mohammed preach that the killing of U.S. troops overseas is justified.
The Audacity of NopeNo one is willing to sign a serious climate agreement. The Americans can't even given an indication of how much they'll cut. When asked, they say nope – because Congress still has to debate the issue.
America's Mass Murder Addiction: No other prosperous country not torn by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. More than health care, the economy, jobs, Afghanistan, Iraq, public malfeasance, private dishonesty, civil rights, disease or tainted food, mass murder is American's primary problem and most fundamental shame.
Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategySame ideological pathologies that drive al-Qaida overpowered Hasan's American identity.
Pro-US, pro-Zionist Australia refuses to support Goldstone Report at UN General AssemblyAustralia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of the Goldstone Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Jewish South African Richard Goldstone is an eminent human rights lawyer and judge.
U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years The United States economy shed 190,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent, up from 9.8 percent in September, the Department of Labor said Friday in its monthly economic appraisal.
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez accuses State of Israel of Palestinian GenocideHC re Gaza: "The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They're doing it openly ...What was it if not genocide? ... The Israelis were looking for an excuse to exterminate the Palestinians."
Our surroundings or environment was given by God not only for our own use but also for the next generation or those who will exist next to us.
UN General Assembly endorses Goldstone Report on Israeli et al Gaza atrocitiesThe UN General Assembly approved on Thursday an Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. 114 nations voted in favor of the resolution and 18 voted against it, with 44 members abstaining.
Keeping Afghanistan Safe From DemocracyThe most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.
America's Most Toxic CitiesTo determine which cities are most toxic, Forbes looked at the country's 40 largest metropolitan statistical areas--geographic entities that the U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines and uses in collecting statistics--based on data provided by the U.S.
Order of Australia for General Petraeus who led US Alliance forces in Occupied Iraq (!)The head of US Central command, General David Petraeus, who led US forces in Occupied Iraq was appointed an honorary officer of the Order of Australia (its highest award) by MP Faulkner at a ceremony in Washington.
Why should the birthright of equality for tens of millions of GLBT American citizens first depend upon getting a majority of people to stop hating them? There would be a tidal wave of blood flowing in the streets and entire cities set ablaze if any other minority' s rights were p …
Oz Government CSIRO bid to GAG top economist's attack on Obama-style carbon ETSThe taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based ETS approach
Ahmadinejad:"Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"In this interview with Newsweek Ahmadinejad clearly does not dispute the Jewish Holocaust as part of the 60 million people killed in WW2 but says "Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"
Worsening Australian Timor Sea oil spill disaster - fire breaks out on leaking Oz oil rigFire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire.
Halloween Came Early This YearThe lid was lifted off of the cauldron, known as The House, in Washington DC. Trusty aides lifted out a whopping 1990 pages of a HealthCare Bill! Jaws dropped. Hands went up in the air.
Walkom: Afghanistan sacrifices may have been in vain - thestar.comWhere does the war in Afghanistan go? My sense is that it is finally beginning the long and drawn-out process toward an inglorious end. For Canada, this would mark the finish of the longest – and the least considered – war that this country has ever fought.
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) back Direct Carbon Pricing + Revenue Recycling Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing, with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanWASHINGTON (Oct. 31) -- President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 20-year-old U.S. travel ban against people with HIV early next year.
Mehdi Hasan, UK New Statesman: "There's nothing to debate about racism"Describes current utterly unacceptable "justifications" of racism in UK: "But, to borrow a phrase from John Major, on the issue of race and the rise of the far right, it is time to condemn a little more and understand a little less. "
BBC NEWS | Americas | The US army's colossal training taskThe camera shows a group of Afghan soldiers standing on a cold dusty plain, listening to an American instructor. He is showing them how to use a new American rifle.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan's growing anti-US angerBy Aleem Maqbool BBC News, Islamabad Recently, while Pakistan's government may have been saying the things that the White House wants to hear, the country's media and public have often been openly hostile towards the United States.
Utopia or Dystopian Nightmare?Sometimes I worry that our country will become more like the former Soviet Union. Americans will wait in lines for hours in order to receive bread for the week.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Carnage as car bomb hits PeshawarAt least 91 people have been killed after a huge car bomb ripped through a busy market in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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