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Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Brown, a farm boy who rose to became one of South Carolina's most powerful politicians, announced Monday he will not seek a sixth term in Congress so he can spend more time with his family.
Nick Hendra scored 18 points to lead American to a 76-68 win over Brown on Saturday.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced a challenge to his leadership Wednesday from within his own Labour Party, months before a national election that disaffected Labour supporters believe he is sure to lose.
Corey Hassan scored 23 points and Chauncey Hardy hit a pair of big 3-pointers as Sacred Heart rallied for an 83-78 victory over Brown on Wednesday night.
Matt Mullery scored 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to help Brown defeat Kean College 74-63 on Monday night.
Any team except the Bengals would have given up on Chris Henry.
Some University of Texas faculty question whether football coach Mack Brown is worth $5 million annually when the school faces tough budget choices.
Jamie Jungers, one of the women who claimed to have a relationship with golfer Tiger Woods, has insisted to news outlets that she was in no way a paid escort. But according to onetime madam Michelle Braun, that’s not the case.
President Barack Obama said Thursday he planned to nominate to the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors a professor who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Jamine Peterson scored 22 points and Bilal Dixon added 13 points and six rebounds as Providence defeated Brown 78-62 on Monday night.
He's already done the Vatican. So don't be surprised if Milan's famed La Scala opera house doesn't turn up in Dan Brown's next thriller.
John Brown, the 19th-century abolitionist who advocated armed violence, is drawing a diverse crowd this week to study how his fight against slavery continues to play in America.
Mike Cavataio scored six of his team-high 21 points in overtime to pace Holy Cross over Brown 85-79 on Wednesday night.
When it comes to Hollywood stars, Britain's prime minister can't tell a Reese from a Renee.
Ronald Moore scored 19 points and dished out 11 assists, Clarance Jackson had 23 points and Siena dominated Brown in a 99-79 rout on Saturday.
Adrian Williams scored 12 points to help Brown cruise to a 69-48 win Friday over the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
ABC says Chris Brown will appear on its "20/20" newsmagazine Dec. 11.
Garrett Leffelman hit a last-second layup to lift Brown to a 70-68 victory over Bryant on Wednesday as the Bears denied the Bulldogs their first win of the season.
Matt Mullery scored 24 points and Peter Sullivan added 20 points to lead Brown to a 75-62 victory over Maine on Sunday.
A Democratic senator says moderates in his party shouldn't be allowed to dictate the terms of the health care debate and that the final bill should include a government-run option for Americans lacking insurance.
Dwight Hardy scored 16 points and D.J. Kennedy added 15 as St. John's held off Brown 79-76 on Friday night.
Chris Brown has received an "extremely favorable" report from probation officials overseeing his felony assault case, a judge said Thursday.
Keith Cothran scored 16 points, leading four Rhode Island players in double-figure scoring as the Rams ran past Brown to win their season opener 78-57 on Wednesday night.
Ronnie Brown's season has ended with an injury — again.
Brown fumes over Islamists plan to carry 500 coffins, poke fun at U.K. war deadA controversy is brewing up in the United Kingdom as a Muslim group that supports jihad is planning to stage a mock funeral procession with 500 coffins to mark the Muslims killed in Afghanistan in Wiltshire on the same route that brings the British war dead.
Senate candidates spar over health care, climate changeCoakley began the hourlong debate by defending her decision to support the recent US Senate compromise on health care, voicing reluctant support for the plan even though it contains some restrictions on abortion, which she opposes, and does not feature a government health plan, w …
Brown hopes issues give him an openingOn paper, the special US Senate election next month should be another walkover for the Democrats. Yet the race for the seat of the late Edward M.
Divergent strategies for Brown, CoakleyHOLYOKE - From the opening moments yesterday of their special election battle for US Senate, the contrasts between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley were clear.
Is Iraq Racist?Historians say that most African-Iraqis arrived as slaves from East Africa as part of the Arab slave trade starting about 1,400 years ago. They worked in southern Iraq's salt marshes and sugar cane fields.
Global warming crisis: top UK scientist predicts only 0.5 billion people will survive at +4C Prof. Anderson: "But I think it's extremely unlikely that we wouldn't have mass death at 4C. If you have got a population of nine billion by 2050 and you hit 4C, 5C or 6C, you might have half a billion people surviving."
Sherrod Brown Calls GOP's Bluff on Health Reform; Ruins Cheap Partisanship of Vitter, CoburnBrown wants to co-sponsor legislation by some of the most outspoken opponents of health-care reform.
UK writer Mehdi Hassan: 5 reasons "Why I have no faith in the Chilcot inquiry on Iraq""5 reasons to be cynical: 1) Chilcot himself... 2) Recent history... 3) The composition of the committee... 4) The media... 5) Teflon Tony... the lies, cover-ups, war crimes, torture, etc ... never seem to stick to Tony Blair."
Brown's Fiscal Responsibility Bill shows how politicians don't see the difference between the Constitution, Legislation and Policy
In India Fair Skin is Preferred.I tend to refer to my people as "brown people" because, by and large, that's the color of our skin. But, as we all know, there are many shades of one color.
Dear Mr Brown. When your government took power away from the Conservatives In the late 1990s, you won the governership of this great country of ours, with promises and an understanding that you were for the people.
Nov. 5, 1955: A Flux of Genius | This Day In Tech | Wired.comDr. Emmet Lathrop Brown is known for being a member (unverified) of the Manhattan Project, a physics professor at Hill Valley University, and a talented entrepreneur and handyman. But it's his contribution to the field of temporal physics for which he is best remembered.
Redheads 'have more sex than blondes or brunettes'Blondes may have more fun but redheads have more sex, according to new research in Germany. The study by Hamburg Sex Researcher Professor Dr Werner Habermehl looked at the sex lives of hundreds of German women and compared them with their hair colour.
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. "
The Wall Street Fraud Watchdog has been demanding a settlement from Wells Fargo bank for its involvement in auction rate sales to completely innocent consumers, since July. Auction rate securities were sold as just like cash, completely safe, with no risk.
UK New Statesman Leader: Why Britain must abort mission in Afghanistan Quote: "neoconservative vision of setting up a western-style, democratic state in Afghanistan - endorsed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, among others - lies in ruins, discredited by widespread and state-engineered fraud"
More power to Afghan warlordsWhen the recent crop of moralizing Western leaders once again apparently based foreign policy on outmoded and deeply flawed beliefs - particularly when combating the threat of religious extremists whose beliefs were still based in a medieval world - disaster was assured.
How Gordon Brown could retain power after the electionVernon Bogdanor sums up PM Brown's position, and the level of votes the Tories and David Cameron must garner at the general election in May 2010 to win.
Repeating history - Washington TimesNineteen thirty-nine was not a good year. World War II started, and much of the world was still in the Depression. The leaders of too many countries were either despots or naive and weak.
Kennedy warns health-care debate could turn violentU.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy fears that supercharged passions fueling the national health-care debate may lead to violence.
Barack Obama's churlishness is unforgivableAlongside the picture, we read that the Prime Minister was forced to dash through the kitchens of the UN in New York to secure a few minutes "face time" with President Obama after five requests for a sit-down meeting were rejected by the White House.
John Pilger: Afghan War atrocity & craven silence mean the UK Party game is over "For the Afghan villagers blown to pieces in our name, one craven motion at Labour's conference is too late ... The game is over. Corporatism and a reinvigorated militarism have finally appropriated parliamentary democracy"
The narcisissim/entitlement rotThere are many people out there, in all walks of life, who think they're more significant than they really are. Plagued with an exaggerated sense of self-importance, they feel entitled to do whatever they want, whenever they want to do it no matter whom it hurts.
For those of you unaware - or indeed ignorant - of British politics, the smiling bigot Blair left long ago, and the British public have spent quite some time under the disgruntling and totally useless Gordon Brown.
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