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Yahoo Inc. confirms that it has hired Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive.
Sunday at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta, Al Sharpton gave a sermon strongly condemning churches support of Prop 8.
From The Opinionator at The New York Times: <span class="italic">Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of state, appears today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The NY Times Op-Ed page asked 10 experts to pose the questions they would like to hear Senator Clinton answer.</span>
Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Tuesday to renew U.S. leadership through a “smart power” mix of diplomacy and defense.
Rumors are swirling that former head of AOL Time Warner Dick Parsons will be asked to be Obama’s new Secretary of Commerce. Check out the latest on the controversy here:
Reversing course, Senate Democrats grudgingly accepted embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich‘s hand-selected Senate appointee, Roland Burris, as they sought to break an impasse over President-elect Barack Obama‘s former seat.
Henderson makes it easily in his first year of eligibility. Rice squeaks through in his last.
Bad news for comedians. Good news for the rest of us. George W. Bush held his final press conference today. He admitted to mistakes such as the Mission Accomplished banner and WMD’s in Iraq.
From Thomas L. Friedman at The New York Times: Here’s hoping that our new administration will be guided in shaping the stimulus by reading John Maynard Keynes in one hand and by reading “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future” with the other.
Did you know that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA, on January 15, 1929? Find out more of this week’s Black history facts here!
Five people were shot as spectators left a crowded high school basketball game Friday in what police called a possibly gang-related drive-by attack that sent panicked students running into a snowy street on the city’s South Side.
A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it.
