Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama began a two-day Virginia campaign swing Tuesday in a community with the state’s highest unemployment rate, telling a Martinsville audience that he will take aggressive steps to improve the plight of economically-distressed communities that are reeling from plant closings and layoffs.
“I’m not saying that every job is going to come [...]
National conventions are often used to cast a spotlight on a party’s up-and-comers, and even off-hour slots are fought over.
But noticeable by his absence from the Democratic podium next week in Denver will be Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, who is not expected to be among the featured speakers.
Franken, a comedian known nationally for [...]
The last of the reporters were filing out of his office Sunday afternoon when Yankees Manager Joe Girardi spun out of his chair and approached a bookshelf behind him. He reached for a blue binder on the shelf that contained scouting reports.
That quickly, Girardi had put aside the Yankees’ first series victory in almost a [...]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Chinese counterpart held talks Monday on President George W. Bush’s trip to the Olympics in Beijing and international issues, the State Department said.
Rice met with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at her office in the afternoon before a working dinner, officials said.
They “discussed the president’s upcoming trip to [...]
I don’t want to feed into that ridiculous rightwing narrative about Obama thinking he’s the messiah. He’s a politician. He happens to have special talents, to which some people respond passionately. Others don’t. But that’s their problem. The Beatles didn’t order millions of teenage girls to scream, and Obama did not put pixie dust in [...]
The troubled chanteuse was rushed to a London hospital Monday night after suffering an adverse reaction to medication, E! News has confirmed.
“Please be advised that Amy Winehouse suffered a reaction to medication at home this evening and was taken to the hospital,” the singer’s rep, Tracey Miller, said. “Doctors have advised that she will be [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is returning to Indiana on Wednesday for a campaign appearance at Purdue University with Sen. Evan Bayh.
The event will be Obama’s first trip to Indiana since he spent several weeks crisscrossing the state before the May 6 primary, which he narrowly lost to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama’s campaign said Monday that [...]
White House hopeful Barack Obama will outline his views on Iraq and U.S. national security in a speech Tuesday before a planned trip there, his campaign said.
“He will focus on the global strategic interests of the United States, which includes ending our misguided effort in Iraq,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
The speech [...]
A red-shirt freshman on the University of Oregon football team has died after trying to swim the McKenzie River during an inner-tube trip down the river.
It says that most of the party started down the river, but Doxey decided to jump off a bridge.
He swam across the current toward a boat ramp. But, the Lane [...]
The New York Mets will begin a six-game road trip tonight with manager Willie Randolph, but whether or not he returns with the team is anyone’s guess.
Randolph’s crew continues its interleague slate this evening with the first of three games against the AL West-leading Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Angel Stadium.
With their manager’s job [...]
