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For the third time in 16 years the federal government is forming a blue-ribbon panel to try to save the USA's perpetually troubled airline industry, which has racked up $58.5 billion in losses and shed 158,000 jobs this decade.
President Obama has hosted world leaders from Afghanistan, Germany and nearly two dozen other spots around the globe since he took office. But none has been received with the fanfare that will be accorded to the prime minister of India on Tuesday.
Three students with Chicago area ties -- Stephanie Bell, Russell Perkins and Daniel Shih -- are among the 32 American men and women named Saturday as 2009 Rhodes Scholars, considered one of the world's most prestigious academic honors.First awarded in 1904, a Rhodes scholarship provides for all expenses for two or three years of study -- and in some instances four years -- at the University of ...
Creed frontman Scott Stapp takes issue with the perception that the tape that surfaced of him and Kid Rock receiving oral sex from groupies on a tour bus in 1999 is a bona fide sex tape. The Christian rocker -- sounding a little like Bill Clinton -- ...
Today is Monday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2009. There are 38 days left in the year.
-- What's the hottest ticket in the nation's capital?
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
Saturday night's health-care vote in the Senate was a theatrical fizzle. Sure, Majority Leader Harry Reid made senators sit at their desks for their vote to create a sense of "history" -- but everyone knew that he'd get the 60 votes he needed to sta...
Senate Democrats, without a vote to spare, pushed forward a bill to overhaul the U.S. health care system, but a divisive debate lies ahead, and there is no assurance the measure as written will win approval in the upper chamber of the Congress.
Three students with Chicago area ties -- Stephanie Bell, Russell Perkins and Daniel Shih -- are among the 32 American men and women named Saturday as 2009 Rhodes Scholars, considered one of the world's most prestigious academic honors.
What's Your Reaction? So last month, days before heading on an intense reporting trip to Afghanistan, Williams appeared on the NPR news quiz show "Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me," cracking up the audience with a Bill Clinton impersonation.
Three students with Chicago area ties -- Stephanie Bell, Russell Perkins and Daniel Shih -- are among the 32 American men and women named Saturday as 2009 Rhodes Scholars, considered one of the world's most prestigious academic honors, the Sun-Times reports.
The ambassador inherits an international relationship that improved during the Bush administration.
There won't be any tearful goodbyes between Swarthmore native Henry Spelman and his sweetie when he heads to the University of Oxford next fall, after winning a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship on Saturday.
Good morning, it’s Monday November 23 and we might see a shower later today. Baylor played its final Southwest Conference football game 14 years ago today. Do you remember the opponent—and the final score?
The acting head of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration hails from a union background, which is rare for a top official at the agency.
