Automaker CEOs plead for $34 billion bailout
The CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler are back on Capitol Hill asking for loans and trying to undo damage they did during the previous auto bailout hearings.
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Commentary: How Obama should fight al Qaeda
The Mumbai attacks remind the world that the intertwined problems of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan will be the most extreme foreign policy challenge that President Obama will face as he assumes office.
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Inaugural planners must consider tough times
President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural planners have a difficult task on their hands: how to put together a celebration, given the tough economic times.
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Obama team seeks changes to interrogation policy
Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, met Wednesday with 12 retired generals and admirals to discuss changing the U.S. government’s current interrogation and detention policies.
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Bill Clinton says he’ll stay out of wife’s way
Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday he will have very little to do with his wife Hillary Clinton’s decisions in her role as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
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Bill Gates presses for stimulus package, foreign aid
Microsoft founder Bill Gates told CNN on Wednesday that he hopes President-elect Barack Obama and Congress immediately craft a wide-ranging stimulus package, to help jump-start the nation’s sputtering economy, and double the United States’ commitment to foreign aid.
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Louisiana rapper Lil Wayne garnered the most Grammy nominations, receiving eight, and British alternative rock band Coldplay grabbed six as the Recording Academy announced this year’s nominees Wednesday.
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Public Broadcasting Service President and CEO Paula Kerger called Wednesday on news organizations to work to keep Americans engaged in the political process, even though the presidential election has ended.
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Most approve of Obama’s Cabinet picks, poll shows
A new national poll suggests that Americans think President-elect Barack Obama’s getting it right when it comes to his Cabinet picks, especially Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates.
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Six in 10 oppose auto bailout, poll shows
A national poll suggests that six in 10 Americans oppose using taxpayer money to help the ailing major U.S. auto companies.
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Obama taps Richardson for top Commerce job
President-elect Barack Obama will announce New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his pick for secretary of commerce on Wednesday, a Democratic source told CNN.
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Jeb Bush considering Senate run
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is considering a bid for the U.S. Senate, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos told CNN.
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The music business is ready to celebrate. Tonight CBS will air a concert that’s also serving as the Grammy nomination announcement. It’s a chance to glitter during a time when the industry is trying to figure out its next move.
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Obama taps Richardson to be his ‘economic diplomat’
President-elect Barack Obama will announce New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his pick for secretary of commerce on Wednesday, a Democratic source told CNN.
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Commentary: Can automakers survive a bailout?
The Big Three automakers yesterday presented impressive plans to Congress that justified their need for bridge loans to help them regain their competitiveness in light of a vehicle market that has crashed into a wall.
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Automaker execs say they’ll accept $1 pay
As the Big 3 automakers turned in financial plans to Congress Tuesday — hoping to bolster their requests for $25 billion in bridge loans — two more chief executives agreed to accept a salary of $1 a year.
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The estranged brother-in-law of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson was charged Tuesday with three counts of first-degree murder stemming from the fatal shootings of Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew, police said.
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It has the curves of a Lamborghini, looks like something an astronaut might take into space and weighs only 10.3 ounces.
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Bill Clinton says he’ll stay out of Hillary’s way
Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday he will have very little to do with his wife Hillary Clinton’s decisions in her role as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
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Obama to nominate Richardson for Cabinet
President-elect Barack Obama will announce New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his pick for secretary of commerce on Wednesday, a Democratic source told CNN.
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Chambliss to win Senate runoff, CNN projects
Georgia voters are going to the polls Tuesday in a runoff election that could determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
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