Motorola To Slash 4,000 Jobs
LOS ANGELES — Mobile handset maker Motorola Inc. said Wednesday it will cut 4,000 more jobs in 2009, in addition to 3,000 it announced in October
Levey to head U.S. Treasury temporarily: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Department official Stuart Levey has agreed to act as treasury secretary pending confirmation of Timothy Geithner, a transition official said on Thursday.
Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: The "44" Official Portrait
Ready for a change of view?
Obama’s SEC pick to face reform-minded Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will be grilled Thursday on how she intends to overhaul an agency widely blamed for failing to help prevent the biggest financial crisis in decades.
Daschle’s Confirmation Bogs Down In Committee
WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Tom Daschle’s confirmation as secretary of Health and Human Services has slowed as the Republican staff on the Senate Finance Committee staff examines his tax records and his association with an education-loan provider that is separately under committee scrutiny.
Julian E. Zelizer: Zelizer’s Book Corner: Frank Lambert’s Religion in American Politics
When Reverend Rick Warren handles the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration next week, the day after we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, many Democrats will be disappointed and hurt, even with the recent announcement that the progressive minister Sharon Watkins will give the sermon at the national prayer service on the day following the inauguration. When Obama selected Warren, an outspoken social conservative — who supported the campaign against gay marriage in California and has made numerous disparaging comments about homosexuals and women — to give the invocation at the inauguration, many of Obama’s supporters were furious
Craig Newmark: Broken government: top ten failures of the Bush administration
Hey, the folks at the Center for Public Integrity have a genuinely outstanding record of solid investigative reporting.
"Gossip Girl" Spin-Off Greenlit For May
Putting the not-happening rumors to rest, the CW has ordered up a pilot for a Los Angeles-set Gossip Girl spinoff. The new venture from GG creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage is not, however, going to be a by-the-book look at Taylor Momsen’s character, Jenny Humphrey, but rather an original story about Lily van der Woodsen’s surely scandalous teen years growing up in the 1980s
Due To Obama, Pentagon Planning Faster Iraq Withdrawal
WASHINGTON — Military commanders are drawing up plans for a faster withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in anticipation that President-elect Barack Obama will reject current proposals as too slow, Pentagon and military officials said Wednesday. The new plans would provide alternatives to a timetable drawn up by the top American commanders for Iraq to bring troops home more slowly than Mr
Geoffrey Dunn: Better Angels: The Inauguration of Barack Obama
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