Ex-Clinton aide is top choice for Obama’s attorney general - Buffalo News

WASHINGTON — Presidentelect Barack Obama’s top choice for attorney general is Eric H. Holder Jr., a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first African American to serve as the nation’s chief lawyer. The Obama ...

Big Three automakers beg Congress for $25B - Leaf Chronicle

WASHINGTON — Detroit's Big Three automakers pleaded with Congress on Tuesday for a $25 billion lifeline to save their teetering industrial titans from collapse, warning of economic catastrophe for the nation as well as their once-proud companies if they are denied. Millions of layoffs would follow ...

Microsoft forgoes plan to buy Yahoo - Vindicator

BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be “very open” to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving by 19 percent ...

South Texas: What About Cheney and Gonzales? - OpEdNews.com

Love to listen to the morning news and compare it with reality... Of course the story broke last night of the pending indictment of Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales on charges of their involvement in the use of prison labor for profit (considered acceptable and legal) and fun (torturing prisoners ...

GM, Chrysler scale back glitz at LA auto show - ABC 33/40 News

LOS ANGELES - Chrysler and General Motors are still showing off their newest vehicles at the Los Angeles Auto Show, but their displays were noticeably quiet Wednesday while Asian and European companies unveiled new models that will likely chip away at the U.S. market share. Casting a shadow on the ...

James scores 11,000th point - Owen Sound Sun Times

Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James replaced Kobe Bryant on Tuesday as the youngest player in NBA history to score 11,000 points. James (23 years, 323 days) reached the plateau with a wide-open jump shot set up by a great crossover dribble late in the first quarter of the Cavaliers' game with ...