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A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress has meatier targets to tackle. Complete Story...
A 53-year-old was arrested after alledgedly hitting a man in the head with a raw steak. According to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the man told deputies Elsie Egan repeatedly hit him with the uncooked meat and slapped his face after he refused a piece of sliced bread. The man said he wanted a bread roll.
The Obama administration has extended the $700 billion financial bailout program until October, setting up a struggle between Democrats who favor using some of the leftover money to help generate jobs and Republicans who say it should be used to shrink soaring budget deficits.
Nicolas Cage's ex-girlfriend is suing the actor and his former business manager, claiming she is owed more than $13 million and a house the actor promised her.
The latest winner of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" is the biggest loser in the show's history. Danny Cahill, a 40-year-old land surveyor and musician from Broken Arrow, Okla., lost 239 pounds to win the $250,000 grand prize.
American Airlines said Wednesday it will be able to sell seats on Brazil's GOL Airlines as if they were American flights.
Sen. Claire McCaskill says money left over from the federal financial bailout should be used to provide loans to small businesses.
Fitch Ratings expects property and casualty insurers to see higher underwriting losses in 2010 and below average returns on capital.
The House passed a bill Wednesday that would extend for one year more than $31 billion in tax breaks. Among the 45 deductions and credits for businesses and individuals, which are set to expire at year's end:
An investment fund manager from Tennessee drew a 14-year prison sentence Wednesday in a $33 million Ponzi scheme that cheated more than two dozen investors in the United States, Germany and Costa Rica.
The Hollywood trade newspaper Variety is putting its Web site behind a "pay wall" starting Thursday. That means it will be reserving its online content for paid subscribers and hoping its advertisers stick around despite the smaller online audience.
A Palestinian shopkeeper and father portrayed as a terrorist in the movie "Bruno" is suing film star Sacha Baron Cohen, David Letterman and others for libel and slander.
A Waldo man accused of urinating on a police officer during his fifth drunken-driving arrest has been sentenced to a year in jail. Court records released Wednesday show 36-year-old Daniel L. Shilts Jr. of Waldo was also fined about $3,600 and had his driver's license revoked for three years.
In a Dec. 8 story about a federal health screening for a genetic mutation associated with a rare blood cancer, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of people in northeastern Pennsylvania who were tested. It was 1,170, not nearly 2,200.
In stories June 18 and Nov. 30 about the crash of a motorized bar stool, The Associated Press erroneously reported the driver's penalty. Kile Wygle, 29, served three days in a driver education program, not three days in jail, according to Licking County Municipal Court.
The agency that operates four major commuter bridges between southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia area says it's postponing its next scheduled toll increase.
A woman has posted $500 bond on a charge of public intoxication after police said she passed out on a horse she rode in the Shelbyville Christmas parade. According to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, a 46-year-old woman was found slumped over on her horse outside a motel.
The Irvine board of education on Wednesday approved a plan to work with MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. subsidiary SunEdison and privately held SPG Solar to install solar power systems at 21 district sites.
High winds have caused thousands of people to be without power in parts of Missouri and Illinois.
Someone broke into public health offices in Logan and made away with 17 urine samples. The break-in happened early Monday morning at the Bear River Health Department. Spokeswoman Jill Parker said the thieves broke a window and somehow got into a padlocked refrigerator to steal the samples, which were stored in small, lidded plastic cups.
Invesco Ltd. said Wednesday assets under management climbed in November to $418.8 billion from $414.2 billion in October.
Winter's first major snow storm knocked out power to thousands of people across Wisconsin on Wednesday.
A California congressman is dropping his effort to honor Tiger Woods with a Congressional Gold Medal.
Graduation from "High School Musical" — 1, 2 and 3 — has led to Broadway for one cast member.
The cast of the Broadway-bound "Sondheim on Sondheim" has grown.
The Depths Of Demcare Demagoguery -- Michelle Malkin -- GOPUSAYep, I'd say this is a good demonstration of across the aisles cooperation. And a soft tomato at Sarah Palin? Why's that, polling numbers not going the way they should? Sad state of affairs, thank God it's gonna change ...
Pakistani nukes safe, says Indian minister NEW DELHI: Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday that Pakistan's nuclear weapons were safe.
Pakistan attacks: Officials feed suspicion that US is to blameLahore, Pakistan - A fresh wave of terror attacks that has killed more than 100 people across Pakistan in the past few days is fueling conspiracy theories that the United States and India are behind the violence, and officials are stoking the popular perception.
Corruption threatens "soul and fabric" of U.S.: FBIRecently there has been a media outcry of how leaders of the United States are communicating bad messages to the young. One example is attributed to Tiger Woods.
Mullen says Pakistan-India have to address Kashmir for long-term security WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (APP): Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman U.S.
Outstanding anti-racist Jewish American writer Stephen Lendman on Jews Against ZionismArticle by an outstanding anti-racist Jewish American writer and commentator Stephen Lendman summarizes major Jewish groups - from secular to orthodox - opposed to Zionism and genocidal Israeli racism.
Deficit Reduction? U.S. Already $292 Billion in the Red This Year WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. government racked up a gaping shortfall in the first two months of this fiscal year after posting a record budget deficit last year, congressional analysts said on Friday.
Brilliant, must-see demolition of ETS: Annie Leonard presents the Story of Cap & TradeAnnie Leonard presents a cartoon-illustrated account of the nature and dangerous flaws of Cap-and-Trade Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) (e.g. the Obama Waxman-Markey Bill ETS) and why we should reject it..
Cross Burning In the 21st CenturyHot Springs - Four men have been sentenced to prison for their roles in the burning of a cross in the yard of a white woman and her three biracial children.
Grassley Seeks Pharma TransparencyWASHINGTON --- Senator Grassley has asked 33 medical groups for information about the financial backing they get from the pharmaceutical, medical device and insurance industries.
BBC News - Kashmir conflict 'unfinished business'The Kashmir insurgency - one of the world's longest-running conflicts - began 20 years ago this week. And it was the shockwave from the fall of the Berlin Wall that gave young Kashmiris the confidence to take on the Indian state, the BBC's David Loyn says.
Judicial Watch: Muslim Extremism Rising In U.S. Though it months ago banned the phrase "war on terror," the Obama Administration reluctantly admits that the threat of deadly Muslim extremism is rising sharply in the United States.
BBC News - Baghdad car bombs cause carnageA series of car bombings has killed at least 127 people and wounded 448 in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The first blast targeted a police patrol in the Dora district of the city. Four others occurred near official buildings within minutes.
Depakote carries Risk of Birth Defects"Posted 12/03/2009] The FDA notified health care professionals and patients about the increased risk of neural tube defects and other major birth defects, such as craniofacial defects and cardiovascular malformations, in babies exposed to valproate sodium and related products (va …
Obama Announces New Jobs ProgramsThe speech, according to a senior administration official, will outline a series of steps to help small businesses grow and hire new staff.
Police: Attack on Pakistan intel office kills 12MULTAN, Pakistan – A team of militants launched a gun, rocket and suicide attack on an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in a strike that showed the insurgents can hit deep in the heart of the country.
Tuned out by The New York Times - The Dawn BlogA few weeks ago, The New York Times was thoughtful enough to do a little feature in a video blog titled 'Tuning out the Taliban'.
We must come together — now Or sink, the lot of us, lock, stock and barrel, the whole blessed country and all who sail in her.
Anti-Israeli rally: demonstrators invade hotel, arrested as Oz Deputy PM attacks GoldstonePro-Palestinian human rights demonstrators arrested after invading Melbourne hotel where Deputy PM of Australia spoke to Minister Shalom, Zionists, mentioning Oz boycott of Durban II and attacking Goldstone.
Documents Related to the Case of David Coleman HeadleyFederal prosecutors say that David Coleman Headley of Chicago, who was already accused of plotting a terror attack on a Danish newspaper, also helped plan the attacks in Mumbai, India, in November 2008.
Chicago Man Is Charged in 2008 Attack on Mumbai WASHINGTON — An American at the center of an international terrorism investigation has been charged with helping plot the 2008 rampage in Mumbai, India, that left 163 people dead, according to a Justice Department complaint unsealed on Monday.
Pakistan and the War President Obama has articulated a reasonably comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan, but there is no chance of defeating the Taliban and Al Qaeda unless Pakistan's leaders stop temporizing (and in some cases collaborating) and get fully into the fight.
HELEN THOMAS: Obama's Afghan War Sure Seems Like VietnamObama won a mandate in 2008 to pull up Bush's war stakes. He should listen to the people, not the generals, not the neocons and certainly not former Vice President Dick Cheney.
UK Revelations Challenge Known Torture NarrativeThe fight in a United Kingdom courtroom over secret documents related to the torture of former Guantanamo prisoner and rendition victim Binyam Mohamed has resulted in a striking new revelation, as reported by Mohamed's attorney Clive Stafford Smith and British journalist Andy Wor …
Copenhagen: Australia for Rich countries backs $10 billion per year fund for at-risk nationsAustralia (one of the world's worst per capita GHG polluters) has backed the creation of a [derisory] $US10 billion a year green fund to help vulnerable countries cope with First World-made climate change
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