4 hrs ago: Obama's Cabinet posts seem to be filling quickly In this May 4, 2007 file photo Timothy Geithner is seen in Montreal. President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as ...
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President-elect Barack Obama has named longtime spokesman Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary. Gibbs went to work for Obama's Senate campaign in 2004 and was communications director while Obama was in the Senate. Obama rounded out his White House communications team Saturday with one ...
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LIMA, Peru — The White House said quite emphatically that President George W. Bush's final trip to a summit of Pacific Rim nations was no farewell tour. Sure sounds like it, though. And a lot of the sentiment is coming from Bush himself. At a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ...
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LOS ANGELES - THE Screen Actors Guild (SAG) said on Saturday it will ask its members to authorise a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator. The guild said it adjourned talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and ...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches. An ad this week in the alternative newspaper The Alibi asks "people who hang out with crooks" to do part-time work for the police. It reads in part: "Make some extra cash! Drug use and criminal record ...
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HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. - Betty James, who co-founded the company that made the Slinky and beat the odds as a single mother in the late 1950s to become a successful executive, has died. She was 90. She died Thursday, said a spokeswoman for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia ...
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LANSING -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm had advice Friday for the Detroit Three automaker executives when they plead their case again to Congress next month for $25 billion in loans to rescue the cash-starved industry. Make it clear that survival of the U.S. auto industry -- especially U.S.-made electric ...
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