AP PHOTO/INDIAN NAVY
Sam Dolnick
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Rough ride for Big Three
Tim Harper
WASHINGTON— The men who run The Big Three looked distinctly tiny in a congressional hearing room yesterday, a trio of auto industry paupers pleading for money and carrying a common message:
Tim Harper
WASHINGTON— The men who run The Big Three looked distinctly tiny in a congressional hearing room yesterday, a trio of auto industry paupers pleading for money and carrying a common message:
Ex-Clinton official tapped as Obama's attorney general
Washington lawyer Eric Holder is U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama ...
Washington lawyer Eric Holder is U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama ...
Plunging into the fishbowl
Faye Fiore
Geraldine Baum
One of the few times Barack Obama lost his famous cool during the U.S. presidential campaign was the day photographers got too close as he walked his youngest daughter, dressed as a corpse bride, to a Halloween party near their ...
Faye Fiore
Geraldine Baum
One of the few times Barack Obama lost his famous cool during the U.S. presidential campaign was the day photographers got too close as he walked his youngest daughter, dressed as a corpse bride, to a Halloween party near their ...
Shaman skeleton found
Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered the 12,000-year-old skeleton of what they say was a witch doctor.
Brits say youth 'like animals'
Researchers measuring the widening generation gap in Britain knew there was a problem with public perceptions of young people.
Remembering Jonestown
Tim Reiterman, who covered Jonestown for the San Francisco Examiner, was shot in the attack that killed congressman Leo Ryan and four others.
Trouble on the high seas
Lee Keath
It seems inconceivable: Somali pirates in speedboats foil warships from the world's most powerful navies to prey on shipping lanes crucial to the oil supply.
Cold War fears alive in Estonian spy case
Olivia Ward
A spy dragged in from the cold. NATO secrets pipelined to Moscow. Warnings of "catastrophic damage" to Western security.
Poles cringe over leader's gaffes
Vanessa Gera
Poland's president has put words in Barack Obama's mouth, kept Condoleezza Rice waiting, and snubbed national icon Lech Walesa.
France got virginity ruling right
Rosie DiManno
A cousin of mine, who married into a Sicilian family, was required to show her blood-soiled wedding night sheets to her new mother-in-law for inspection, proof positive of virginity surrendered.
Rough ride for Big Three
Tim Harper
The men who run The Big Three looked distinctly tiny in a congressional hearing room yesterday, a trio of auto industry paupers pleading for money and carrying a common message:
Teen admits he killed B.C. model
A Chinese migrant worker faces a possible death sentence after he admitted he stabbed a Canadian model to death in her Shanghai apartment building, his lawyer confirmed yesterday.
Boy gives account of shooting father, co-worker
An eight-year-old boy accused in the shooting deaths of his father and another man said in a police interview released today that he did not fire the first shots at the men but later shot them so they wouldn't ...
Man freed after 27 years in prison
A Florida man who spent 27 years behind bars for murder left prison for the first time today to await a new trial granted after DNA evidence called his conviction into question.
Democrats consider offshore drilling areas
H. JOSEF HEBERT
House Democrats in the U.S. have no interest in restoring the broad ban on oil and gas development off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts but will seek to "delineate areas available for drilling" ...
McCain welcomed back to Senate fold
LAURIE KELLMAN
The red-and-blue Senate trolley rolled up to the Capitol basement today; a lone senator in the front seat checking a piece of paper before slipping it back into his jacket pocket.
Nuclear terrorism still a threat: report
BARRY SCHWEID
President-elect Barack Obama has a historic opportunity to drastically reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism and should appoint a senior White House official to take charge of countering the danger, according to ...
Obama's inauguration to draw record crowds
NAFEESA SYEED
President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration has officials in the nation's capital bracing for an unprecedented turnout of possibly 3 million people or more, District of Columbia Mayor Adrian M. ...
U.S. troops launch strike inside Pakistan border
FISNIK ABRASHI
U.S. troops in Afghanistan launched a barrage of artillery at insurgents attacking their position from inside Pakistan's volatile tribal region, in a cross-border strike coordinated with Pakistan's ...
U.S. to move troops from Iraq to Afghanistan
ANNE GEARAN
The top U.S. military officer said today the Pentagon is developing plans to get troops quickly out of Iraq and into Afghanistan to battle a more confident and successful Taliban.
Iraq PM rallies support for security pact
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
Iraq's prime minister delivered a nationally televised address today to rally domestic support for a U.S.-Iraqi security pact, calling it a step toward full sovereignty and assuring neighbours it will prevent ...
U.S. transit groups plead Congress for cash
BRIAN WESTLEY
Leaders from 11 transit agencies pleaded with Congress for help today as long-term financing deals with investors collapse amid the global credit crisis.
Lee Keath
It seems inconceivable: Somali pirates in speedboats foil warships from the world's most powerful navies to prey on shipping lanes crucial to the oil supply.
Cold War fears alive in Estonian spy case
Olivia Ward
A spy dragged in from the cold. NATO secrets pipelined to Moscow. Warnings of "catastrophic damage" to Western security.
Poles cringe over leader's gaffes
Vanessa Gera
Poland's president has put words in Barack Obama's mouth, kept Condoleezza Rice waiting, and snubbed national icon Lech Walesa.
France got virginity ruling right
Rosie DiManno
A cousin of mine, who married into a Sicilian family, was required to show her blood-soiled wedding night sheets to her new mother-in-law for inspection, proof positive of virginity surrendered.
Rough ride for Big Three
Tim Harper
The men who run The Big Three looked distinctly tiny in a congressional hearing room yesterday, a trio of auto industry paupers pleading for money and carrying a common message:
Teen admits he killed B.C. model
A Chinese migrant worker faces a possible death sentence after he admitted he stabbed a Canadian model to death in her Shanghai apartment building, his lawyer confirmed yesterday.
Boy gives account of shooting father, co-worker
An eight-year-old boy accused in the shooting deaths of his father and another man said in a police interview released today that he did not fire the first shots at the men but later shot them so they wouldn't ...
Man freed after 27 years in prison
A Florida man who spent 27 years behind bars for murder left prison for the first time today to await a new trial granted after DNA evidence called his conviction into question.
Democrats consider offshore drilling areas
H. JOSEF HEBERT
House Democrats in the U.S. have no interest in restoring the broad ban on oil and gas development off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts but will seek to "delineate areas available for drilling" ...
McCain welcomed back to Senate fold
LAURIE KELLMAN
The red-and-blue Senate trolley rolled up to the Capitol basement today; a lone senator in the front seat checking a piece of paper before slipping it back into his jacket pocket.
Nuclear terrorism still a threat: report
BARRY SCHWEID
President-elect Barack Obama has a historic opportunity to drastically reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism and should appoint a senior White House official to take charge of countering the danger, according to ...
Obama's inauguration to draw record crowds
NAFEESA SYEED
President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration has officials in the nation's capital bracing for an unprecedented turnout of possibly 3 million people or more, District of Columbia Mayor Adrian M. ...
U.S. troops launch strike inside Pakistan border
FISNIK ABRASHI
U.S. troops in Afghanistan launched a barrage of artillery at insurgents attacking their position from inside Pakistan's volatile tribal region, in a cross-border strike coordinated with Pakistan's ...
U.S. to move troops from Iraq to Afghanistan
ANNE GEARAN
The top U.S. military officer said today the Pentagon is developing plans to get troops quickly out of Iraq and into Afghanistan to battle a more confident and successful Taliban.
Iraq PM rallies support for security pact
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
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U.S. transit groups plead Congress for cash
BRIAN WESTLEY
Leaders from 11 transit agencies pleaded with Congress for help today as long-term financing deals with investors collapse amid the global credit crisis.
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