By Mara Der Hovanesian Investors are quickly losing faith in Citigroup (C). Shares of the company, once the largest and mightiest US bank by assets and market value, have fallen 66% in November, and finished down 1.85, to 4.55, on Nov. 20. ...
The MySpace application for Research In Motion’s Blackberry smartphones has been downloaded more than 400000 times since it was introduced a week ago. The two companies claim this is an app download record for them. Its users have sent a total of more ...
By Inside Track Madonna and her estranged hubby, British film director Guy Ritchie, have reached a divorce settlement, which will be presented in a London courtroom today. Yesterday, the case, listed under the names “Ciccone ML v Ritchie GS,” will be ...
Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Ben Roethlisberger didn't let a bitter, snowy night bother his throwing or running, totaling 243 yards passing with a passing and rushing touchdown, as Pittsburgh methodically wore down Cincinnati, 27-10, ...
By David Brown Two years after the federal government recommended that patients in emergency rooms and doctors' offices be routinely tested for HIV, the advice is generally not being followed, according to a large number of studies presented this week ...
By Josh Meyer Reporting from Washington -- Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey was rushed to the hospital Thursday night after collapsing at the lectern and losing consciousness during a speech on the Justice Department's war on terrorism, ...
By Zachary A. Goldfarb Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced yesterday that they are temporarily suspending foreclosures and evictions during the holiday season in an effort to keep people from losing their homes. The companies said they are taking the ...
Hillary Clinton continued paying down her presidential campaign debts to most vendors last month, with one big exception. She now actually owes more to the firm founded by her former chief strategist Mark Penn than she did a month ago. ...
Hillary Clinton continued paying down her presidential campaign debts to most vendors last month, with one big exception. She now actually owes more to the firm founded by her former chief strategist Mark Penn than she did a month ago. ...
By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO — When the California Supreme Court begins weighing arguments over same-sex marriage — again — in December, some 18000 such marriages could hang in the balance. Opponents of such unions also have high stakes, ...
By Cristina Corbin With only 206 votes out of 2.9 million total ballots separating Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota from his Democratic opponent Al Franken, every vote counts -- including the elusive 32 absentee ballots first reported to be ...
By Elizabeth Cohen (CNN) -- Blanche Danick may be 86 years old, but she's pretty hip. She keeps up with all the latest health news, and a while back, she called her daughter wanting to know whether she should start taking the herb ginkgo biloba. ...
By Jed Gottlieb The Beatles came up with “Sgt. Pepper’s,” “Abbey Road” and 11 other records in half the time it took Axl Rose to make “Chinese Democracy.” Mr. Rose’s inability to pull the trigger and release his uneven-but-absolutely-awesome White ...
By Inside Track Madonna and her estranged hubby, British film director Guy Ritchie, have reached a divorce settlement, which will be presented in a London courtroom today. Yesterday, the case, listed under the names “Ciccone ML v Ritchie GS,” will be ...
By MANOHLA DARGIS It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set. Based on the foundational book in Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling multivolume series, ...
By Mara Der Hovanesian Investors are quickly losing faith in Citigroup (C). Shares of the company, once the largest and mightiest US bank by assets and market value, have fallen 66% in November, and finished down 1.85, to 4.55, on Nov. 20. ...
The UAW is negotiating the possible elimination of its controversial jobs bank and is considering other concessions to help Detroit's automakers win low-cost loans from Congress, people familiar with negotiations said late Thursday. ...
By Howard Lesser After seven years in detention, five of six Algerian terror suspects at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been ordered freed by a federal district judge. In his decision, Judge Richard Leon, a Bush appointee, noted that the ...
LIMA (AFP) — Leaders of the 21-member APEC group were on Friday to seek ways of turning back the world economic crisis as they gathered here amid unrelenting bad news from the Asia-Pacific region. US President George W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister ...
By Tim Johnston BANGKOK, Nov. 20 -- An explosion at an anti-government protest site in central Bangkok early Thursday killed one person and wounded 23 others, prompting a leader of the demonstration to call for a mass rally against the government on ...
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The Russian parliament was expected Friday to approve a constitutional amendment to extend the presidential term from four to six years. Vladimir Putin was barred constitutionally from seeking a third consecutive term as ...
By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO — When the California Supreme Court begins weighing arguments over same-sex marriage — again — in December, some 18000 such marriages could hang in the balance. Opponents of such unions also have high stakes, ...
