Facing imminent bankruptcy, the top three American automobile majors - General Motors, Chrysler and Ford - have sought a $34 billion bailout package from the US Congress. In return, they have promised to be more efficient, cut thousands of jobs, trim down brands and reduce salaries of their CEOs to $1 a...

Refraining from commenting on US president-elect Barack Obama's remark implying that India has the sovereign right to go after terrorists, the US State Department has said all countries in the region need to cooperate to fight...

Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon met with top US officials Tuesday to discuss efforts to find the terrorists behind last week's deadly attacks in Mumbai, the US State Department...

Washington, Dec 3 : Former President Bill Clinton may have told President-elect Obama much more than he wanted to know about contributors to clear the way for Hillary Clinton to take over as next Secretary of...

New York, Dec 3 : Even though she has been trying to hide her bad habit, American actress Eva Longoria Parker was caught smoking while on her trip to Puerto...

London, Dec 3 : English actress Kate Beckinsale got a first hand lesson in entertainment journalism after she took a job with a U.S. newspaper to prepare for a film...

London, Dec 3 : American actor Sean Penn is said to have urged writers to put in more raunchy scenes in his new gay biopic...

Washington, Dec 3 : American actor Patrick Swayze has slammed the media for reporting that his cancer has spread, and also stated that he is still fighting the "good fight" against the...

New Delhi, December 3 : Daniel Radcliffe, who stunned New York critics with his terrific performance in 'Equus', said it would be great if he had an erection...

Washington, Dec.3 : U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen is traveling with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to India and Pakistan as part of an American diplomatic effort to ease tensions in the Indian subcontinent in the wake of last week's Mumbai...

Washington, Dec 3 : American actor Brad Pitt has revealed that he is making it his "goal" to bring moustaches back into...

Washington, Dec 3 : Even though American television host Oprah Winfrey was backing President-elect Barack Obama during the elections, she still accepted at least five million dollars from his...

New Delhi, Dec 3 : American actor Brad Pitt has revealed that the reason he and his partner actress Angelina Jolie moved to New Orleans was because they felt "something mystical could happen"...

London, Dec.3 : U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's relatives have told how his grandfather was imprisoned and brutally tortured by the British during the violent Mau Mau revolt in...

London, December 3 : Patients' safety is being compromised in America because medicines these days are reviewed and released onto the market faster than ever before, says a report....

Chicago, Dec.3 : US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has revealed that he has an "open-ended" agreement to remain at the Pentagon incoming President Barack Obama. ...

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)President-elect Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary-designate New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson take part in a news conference in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 3,...

CNN/Opinion Research Corp. Poll released Wednesday Poll finds that 36 percent of those sampled favor an auto bailout In early November, polls indicated large support for the auto...

December 3, 2008 WASHINGTON, (christiansunite.com) -- Boycott The New York Times editor Don Feder said today that "palpable bias" at the paper has contributed to steep declines in The Times'...

star and producer William Petersen is trading the forensics lab for the Chicago stage. The city's celebrated Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where Tracy Letts's Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning...

Mexican/American fight fans in Las Vegas will get to watch their beloved son Saturday night when Oscar De La Hoya goes up against Manny Pacquiao in a mega fight at the MGM Grand. But if they want an...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings rose 39.2 percent in November from a year earlier but were down slightly from October, the American Bankruptcy Institute said on...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Federal authorities say six people have been arrested on charges of conspiring to smuggle the ivory of African elephants into the United States. The arrests took...

California police have arrested a third suspect in the case of the 17-year-old boy who fled from a couple's home Monday, bloodied with bruises, clad only in boxer shorts and shackled at the...

MIAMI -- A historic sign is back up in the Miami sun.The 35-foot illuminated sign shows the pigtailed Coppertone girl with her dog pulling at the bottom of her bathing suit. It has been a fixture of...

Zal Chapgar, a star athlete and 2003 graduate of Wissahickon High School, took his life on Monday in the most public of places, leaping from an upper floor of the Loews Philadelphia Hotel and landing...

Alexis DelCoco, a candle girl, takes part in rehearsal at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church. Lucia Fest is a family tradition for many of the youngsters. Some are fourth-generation...

Yellow expected as a bright spot for 2009 Enough gloom and doom: There's a prediction from a leading color source that cheerful and sunny yellow will be the influential color of...

Homicide detectives arrested Shawn Michael Joseph, 23, in the shooting death of clerk Sunil Paul, 35, police spokesman Lt. Manny Marino said in a news...

WASHINGTON -- Documents released Tuesday from Richard M. Nixon's White House years shed new light on just how much the government struggled with growing public unrest over the protracted war in...

It's not a cabinet position. It doesn't require Senate confirmation. But much like President-elect Obama's inner circle, the person selected as the next White House chef will face a daunting task:...

News ) - What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people?These sound like...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Builders desperate to put up smaller, cheaper homes are incurring extra expense and customers' wrath by redesigning communities, even when people are already living in...

The federal government wants Manhattan, Kan., to be the location for a replacement for the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center in Long Island, N.Y. Here, the Plum Island center is seen...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLIFTON, N.J. -- Lungs from a good Samaritan killed in a New Jersey church shooting are breathing new life thanks to a transplant. The 21-year-old who received the organs is...

Ala. county sets 'Barack Obama Day' as new holiday A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual...

Former president says he'll be 'sounding board' to secretary of state Foreign policy decisions will be Obama's to make, Bill Clinton says Decision to leave Senate was difficult for Hillary, her...

Lungs from NJ church shooting victim transplanted Lungs from a good Samaritan killed in a New Jersey church shooting are breathing new life thanks to a...

Politicians are supposed to watch what they say - especially when a nearby microphone might be on.But, yesterday in Philadelphia, Gov. Ed Rendell made some blunt remarks that could be construed as...

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NEW: Carmen Ramirez, 43, arrested in Berkeley, California, overnight Bruised, emaciated teen found in gym, dressed in boxers, his bloody ankle shackled Ramirez is thought to be the teen's aunt Two...

CHICAGO (CBS) ― A Chicago alderman is seeking a pardon for a former City Council colleague. Ald. Ed Smith (28th) says President Bush should pardon former alderman Larry Bloom, the Chicago...

Article Reprints TAGA, an independent privately-owned managing general agency based in the Austin, Texas, area, announced it is now managing general agent for Great American Insurance Group to offer...

American Capital Ltd. is the latest investment company to make big cuts in response to shaky economic and market conditions. The Bethesda-based private equity and asset management firm (NASDAQ:...

at 1:01 p.m. The White House today acknowledged receiving Sen. Dick Durbin's request for executive clemency for former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, but the administration isn't saying much about the...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- The publisher of the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, S.D., and the editorial page editor of The Dallas Morning News have been named to the Pulitzer Prize board. ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The fate of General Motors and the rest of the Big Three may soon be decided in Washington. With that in mind, here's a crazy question: Is it time to make a contrarian bet...

ARLINGTON, VA and MOBILE, AL--(Marketwire - December 3, 2008) - EADS North America will further expand the company's U.S. industrial presence with the construction of a new 27,000-sq. ft. aircraft...

City of Industry, CA --(www.FinancialNewsUSA.com)-- 12/03/2008 - Banking industry news provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU). (Reuters) - UBS slashed its price target on Bank of America Corp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Wednesday the United States would have jurisdiction to prosecute the surviving gunman captured during the deadly attack in Mumbai,...