Expectations are high that Obama will nominate a woman. Though female jurisprudence is not much different from that of male judges, women tend to be more pro-women's rights and to tilt more toward plaintiffs in sex-discrimination cases.
Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination has opened a new affirmative action battle, with each side invoking the election of the first black president in support of its cause.
An unlikely Canadian-Russian alliance tentatively agreed to buy the European operations of General Motors in a deal that will have ripple effects in the United States.
AP - With an almost certain bankruptcy filing days away, General Motors is beginning its reinvention, planning to retool one factory to make its smallest vehicles ever in the U.S. and rid itself of the biggest.
AP - A bankruptcy judge said Friday that he will rule by Monday on whether Chrysler LLC can go forward with its plan sell most of the company to a group headed by Italy's Fiat and take a big step toward its goal of a speedy exit from Chapter 11.
AP - Jay Leno wrapped up 17 years as "Tonight" host Friday with jabs at favorite targets, including politicians and his own network, and with an unusual touch of sentiment.
A pathologist hired to look at the mysterious death of a Seattle woman in Thailand says her "lungs were 100 percent congested," Jill St. Onge's fiancee and brother said. Robert St. Onge said his sister had been healthy and that her sudden death is a mystery.
Republicans kept the pressure on President Obama's Supreme Court pick Friday, pushing the idea that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is an activist judge who will bring a leftist agenda to the bench. Meanwhile, the White House tried to soften remarks Sotomayor made in 2001 that have rankled conservatives. "I'm sure she would have restated it," Obama told NBC.
Jay Leno ended his 17-year reign as the host of "The Tonight Show" Friday with the children of people who met and started families while working at the long-running late-night show during his tenure, according to audience members who attended the taping.
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