The U.S. economy officially sank into a recession last December, which means that the downturn is already longer than the average for all recessions since World War II.
Eric H. Holder Jr., Barack Obama?s choice to be attorney general, was more deeply involved in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich than his supporters acknowledge.
AP - Walloped by the recession, automakers' U.S. sales are plummeting as hard-to-get credit, job losses and other stresses make many Americans wary of taking on big-ticket financial commitments.
AP - Barack Obama promised "a new dawn of American leadership" in a troubled world Monday, announcing a strong-willed national security team headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush.
AP - Thailand's Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat says he has accepted a court ruling to step down because of electoral fraud committed by his political party.
Raphael Lemkin fled Warsaw after Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. He survived months in the forest, dodging bombs and fighting for the resistance. He later watched in horror from the United States as six million Jews -- including 40 members of his own family -- died at the hands of the Nazis. At the time, there was no name for the Nazis' crimes. Lemkin would change that.
Thailand's Constitutional Court ordered the ruling People Power Party dissolved Tuesday and banned Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics for five years.
Chicago police arrested William Balfour in the deaths of three relatives of actress Jennifer Hudson, a police spokesman said. Balfour, the estranged husband of Hudson's sister, was first detained for questioning on October 24, the day Hudson's mother and brother were found shot to death. The body of her 7-year-old nephew was found three days later.