President Barack Obama pushed a humbled General Motors Corp. into bankruptcy on Monday and said the federal government will act as “reluctant shareholder” when it assumes a 60 percent ownership of the smaller carmaker that emerges.
The government’s partial stake in GM comes on top of a far smaller ownership of Chrysler LLC, as well as [...]
Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, the Senate’s longest-serving member, has developed a serious infection and is being treated in the hospital with antibiotics.
Staph infections differ in severity depending on the site of infection, but are more of a threat to people with weakened immune systems and underlying chronic illnesses.
Lawyers for Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken made their cases before the Minnesota Supreme Court Monday morning in a pivotal phase of the legal battle over their tightly contested 2008 Senate race.
Friedberg claimed thousands of Minnesota absentee voters have been disenfranchised due to inconsistent standards the counties used for counting absentee ballots.
US lawmakers face a slew of key debates before the August recess, urged by President Barack Obama to back his ambitious agenda with bills on healthcare reform and global warming, and the confirmation of a new Supreme Court judge.
The Obama administration is counting on the House of Representatives to push through sweeping legislation on energy [...]
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says North Korea appears to be working on a long-range missile but it’s not clear yet what they plan to do with it.
The reclusive communist regime tested a long-range missile in April, but other launches over the last week have been only short-range.
At a Manila news conference Monday with Philippines Secretary [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a court to allow the release of pictures of detainee abuse despite the Obama administration’s objections.
The Obama administration last week asked the court to keep the pictures secret. It says they could incite violence in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON General Motors entered bankruptcy Monday morning, filing for Chapter 11 protection from its creditors. The filing triggered a number of immediate actions that affect the automaker, all of which lead to the temporary nationalization of the American icon for the foreseeable future.
Cisco Systems will replace GM on the Dow list of 30 market-moving companies.
The Supreme Court will not look into the case of an illegal gun dealer who was given a longer prison term because the guns were destined for New York City.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who last week was nominated to the high court, took issue with her colleagues on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who [...]
Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a lifeboat bobbing on the frigid North Atlantic.
Dean’s friend Gunter Babler said she died in her sleep at Woodlands Ridge Nursing Home early Sunday, the 98th anniversary of [...]
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is at the White House, getting to know some of the people who are working on her confirmation.
The high court nominee was meeting with members of the White House counsel’s office.
Sotomayor (soh-toh-my-YOR’) was at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, part of the White House complex, on Monday morning.
