By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer prices dropped at the fastest rate on record in October and new home construction was at a record low, according to government reports on Wednesday that underlined how rapidly the economy was ...
A possible deal between Microsoft and Yahoo could take place now that Yahoo CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang announced he will step down once a replacement can be found. Yang will continue to work at Yahoo, a company he helped co-found, but the company ...
The Tribune “Twilight” review runs Thursday, and I’ll be talking about the latest addition to our cinematic vampire lore with another member of the film’s target demo (Spike O’Dell) sometime Thursday morning on WGN-AM. 1. ...
Tuesday's announcement that Bowl Championship Series football games will move to ESPN starting in January 2011 accelerates the inevitable march of major sporting events away from free TV. Like baseball's league championship series, the NBA conference ...
By John Hughes and Nicholas Johnston Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- US auto company executives today will make their plea for government aid for the second straight day, as prospects for a Democratic-backed assistance plan waned. General Motors Corp. ...
Ayman al-Zawahri, seen here in an image taken from a video issued by al-Qaida's media branch on Feb. 27, has accused President-elect Barack Obama of being "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" such as Malcolm X. AP file For more than 15 ...
By ALAN COWELL PARIS -- Physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells to fashion an organ and prevent its rejection by her immune system, ...
By Eric Lichtblau and John M. Broder WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama has indicated that he intends to move rapidly on one of the most ambitious items on his agenda - tackling climate change. Speaking to a bipartisan group of governors by video ...
By Ed Hornick Barack Obama and Joe Biden attend a rally in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Both Abraham Lincoln and President-elect Barack Obama were not from Illinois but became two of the state's top politicians. ...
By Tom Kizzia For years, Alaskans spoke with trepidation of the day when "Uncle Ted" would leave the US Senate, cutting off the flow of federal "Stevens money" that helped sustain Alaska's economy. Nobody imagined that when the day finally came, ...
By JESSE A. HAMILTON | The Hartford Courant WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Lieberman and the Democratic Party have made up. The ugliness is over, and the senator would clearly like to move on from his near-brush with becoming a Senate nonentity. ...
By HARI KUMAR and ALAN COWELL NEW DELHI: Days after pirates seized a Saudi-owned supertanker carrying more than $100 million worth of crude oil, the Indian Navy said on Wednesday that one of its warships fought a brief battle with would-be hijackers in ...
By Davie Barret Google is one of the world’s largest companies that specializes in Internet searches and most recently, software. Google has put a lot of hard work in designing an operating system for mobile phones, called Android. ...
By Ed Hornick Barack Obama and Joe Biden attend a rally in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Both Abraham Lincoln and President-elect Barack Obama were not from Illinois but became two of the state's top politicians. ...
By John Letzing, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Yahoo Inc. rose Tuesday on the news that co-founder Jerry Yang will step down as chief executive once the struggling Web portal finds a replacement. , , ) stock rose more than 8% to close ...
By HARI KUMAR and ALAN COWELL NEW DELHI: Days after pirates seized a Saudi-owned supertanker carrying more than $100 million worth of crude oil, the Indian Navy said on Wednesday that one of its warships fought a brief battle with would-be hijackers in ...
By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer prices dropped at the fastest rate on record in October and new home construction was at a record low, according to government reports on Wednesday that underlined how rapidly the economy was ...
Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper suffered an astronaut blunder after she mistakenly let go of her tool bag in space after a grease gun inside of her backpack-sized bag exploded. It seems that the grease gun began to leak inside of the bag, ...
