From 236.com: We'd like to propose a toast. Here's to the Republican Party for a year no one will soon forget.
When French shoppers start cutting back on buying champagne, oysters and foie gras for New Year’s, it’s been a rough year.
A militant arrested in Pakistan has confessed involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks and is giving investigators details of the plot, a senior Pakistani government official said Wednesday.
Barack Obama probably cannot fix every leaky roof and busted boiler in the nation’s schools. But educators say his sweeping school modernization program — if he spends enough — could jump-start student achievement.
Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers have taken their battle to the Internet.
FROM ABC NEWS: An economist in Germany has noticed a curious trend among Americans: For the past 50 years, black women have been shrinking with each new generation.
A murder indictment was issued Tuesday against William Balfour, the man charged with killing the mother, brother and nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson.
CHICAGO – A defiant Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday named a black political trailblazer to Barack Obama’s Senate seat, a surprise move that put the governor’s opponents in the uncomfortable position of trying to block his choice from becoming the Senate’s only black member.
A teen convicted in the “Jena Six” beating case shot himself in the chest and was taken to the hospital Monday, days after his arrest on a shoplifting charge, police said.
From Courtney Hazlett at MSNBC: MSNBC is <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28424559/">reporting</a> that the Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston may receive up to $300,000 for the first pictures of their son Tripp.
From Ben Smith at Politico: While Roland Burris may be appointed to Obama's Senate seat, he might have had a hard time finding a place in an Obama White House.
Home prices dropped by the sharpest annual rate on record in October and there are no signs the housing pain is over, according to a closely watched index released Tuesday.