By John Crawley and Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto executives went to Capitol Hill for a second day on Wednesday to argue their case for $25 billion in aid as legislators proposed changes to help a bailout pass Congressional and White House muster.
The day’s hearings, before the House Financial Services Committee, got off to [...]
This writer has often defined self as being an economic conservative and a social liberal. Normally there is not much conflict in that ideology. I will help my neighbor as long as I don’t have to borrow money in the endeavor. I will not enable my neighbor to continue poor behavior by bailing him out [...]
By Michael Falcone
President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team offered more clues about the makeup of his Cabinet and White House staff on Tuesday as word leaked out that Eric H. Holder Jr., a former Clinton administration official and Obama confidant, would likely be picked for Attorney General.
The Times’s Eric Lichtblau and John M. Broder [...]
(Update: 8:25 p.m. EST)
Space Shuttle Endeavour lit up the sky at the Kennedy Space Center as it launched tonight, racing up the east coast of the United States on its way to orbit
Seven astronauts are on board. Their flight is scheduled to run just shy of fifteen days.
By space shuttle standards, the flight of STS-126 [...]
This election was tough. Hard hitting, loud, boisterous, negative, slanderous, and sometimes mean spirited. All of us have enjoyed and distressed over the emotional roller coaster. This was better than any Hitchcock thriller - if tense excitement is what you like. But the election is over and we are seeing the emotional aftermath. We can [...]
By Michael Luo
Ah, memories.
Among The Caucus’s favorites from campaign days gone by were those from the bitterly cold days of December 2007 preceding the Iowa caucuses, when the silver-tongued Mike Huckabee and his indefatigable sparring partner, Mitt Romney, circled and slashed at each other from dawn until dusk.
The episodes are now in reruns [...]
