Joe Torre said he will return as manager of the Yankees for the final year of his contract, ending speculation that owner George Steinbrenner would fire him.
Google's startling purchase of the amateur-video website YouTube has raised eyebrows for a number of good reasons: The amazing $1.65 billion price tag, the frenzy caused by a company that's less than a year old, and the speed with which the deal was done—including final negotiations in a booth at Denny's.
Quick with a smile, Andrew Taylor comes across as a friendly and informal midwesterner, sounding at times almost bemused by the success of the company he leads, Enterprise Rent-a-Car. His father, Jack, has often said he was surprised at the growth of the St. Louis company he founded, now the largest car-rental business in the world.
If intelligence agencies confirm that the seismic disturbance picked up over the weekend was indeed an atomic explosion, North Korea will now have to be reckoned with on terms like those accorded other adversaries with a nuclear arsenal. The North is being condemned and may even be sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council.
AP - North Korea must face "some punitive actions" for testing a nuclear device, China's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday, suggesting that Beijing may be willing to impose some form of Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang.
AP - Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday accused former President Clinton, the husband of his potential 2008 White House rival, of failing to act in the 1990s to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
AP - Mark Foley's former chief of staff, who says he warned the House speaker's staff three years ago of inappropriate Foley conduct toward male pages, is to testify Thursday before the House ethics committee.
The U.S. believes North Korea tried to detonate a nuclear device and "something went wrong," a government official told CNN Tuesday. The official confirmed North Korea told China before the test that it would be a 4 kiloton device. The official added the unexpectedly small blast, of a half kiloton or less, indicates the test was not very successful.