America's ultimate icon of letting loose has gone from Milwaukee to the land of Mecca and Medina, where members of the Middle East Harley Owners Group (HOG) held their ninth annual rally this weekend.
Regulators approved a radical plan to stabilize the bank in an arrangement in which the government could soak up tens of billions of dollars in losses.
In a ranking of people who helped Barack and Michelle Obama get where they are today, close to the top would be Valerie Jarrett, who is heading to the White House.
Barack Obama?s choices for economic advisers are past protégés of former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, but they are setting aside some old orthodoxies.
AP - President-elect Barack Obama signaled Sunday he will move urgently and aggressively to rescue the plunging economy, demanding swift passage by Congress of a massive two-year spending and tax-cutting recovery program. "We're out with the dithering, we're in with a bang," a top Obama aide said.
AP - The government unveiled a bold plan Sunday to rescue troubled Citigroup, including taking a $20 billion stake in the firm as well as guaranteeing hundreds of billions of dollars in risky assets.
AP - A gunman drove across the country to confront his estranged wife, then killed her in a church vestibule as Sunday services let out, authorities said. Two other people were injured in the attack, which sent churchgoers scrambling for safety.
Gas prices dropped nearly 33 cents in the past two weeks, dipping below $2 for the first time since March 2005, a national survey said today. But one expert says the end of this gasoline price crash is either "here or near."
Authorities continued to search for the person who shot one man to death and critically injured another Saturday evening at a shopping center in Tukwila, Washington.
Venezuelans swarmed the polls today to cast ballots in hundreds of gubernatorial, mayoral and legislative elections. But for President Hugo Chavez, the election is about himself -- and he's not even on the ballot.