U.S. President George W. Bush, center, with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, at the APEC Summit in Lima, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) (Lawrence Jackson - AP) U.S. President George W. Bush, left, with President Hu ...
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WASHINGTON -- 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 ...
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WASHINGTON (CBS) ― Obama has named longtime spokesman Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary, CBS has learned. CBS News has also confirmed that Sen. Hillary Clinton has decided to accept the offer to join President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet as secretary of state, according to a senior ...
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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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LOS ANGELES -- The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator. Federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez adjourned the talks between SAG and the ...
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The presidential transition may be adding to the uncertainty roiling the financial markets. In fact, knowing the names on President-elect Barack Obama's economic team may prove more helpful in calming those stormy markets in the short term than bailout packages that so far haven't had much payoff ...
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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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