Chris Dodd opines that after the primaries on May 6 that the "party elders" should get together and back the likely nominee at that time. In his opinion that person is Barack Obama.
The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday apologized for publishing a story about the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, after a Web site questioned the authenticity of documents the paper used for the report.
Forty years after Democratic rising star Robert F. Kennedy was killed at a Los Angeles hotel during his presidential run, new evidence suggests the man serving a life sentence for his murder did not fire the shots that killed the charismatic senator.
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On a December morning in 1996, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke. It was a learning experience. "How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?" she said. "In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life."
Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that it is "outrageous" that developed countries are turning food crops into biofuels. He said that countries like the US were doing so while the world's poor are struggling with surging food prices. Read More
Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's restaurants, has died, a Southern California McDonald's official said Wednesday. He was 89.
Chuck Todd: As expected, one of the two major Democratic candidates saw a downturn in the latest NBC/WSJ poll, but it's not the candidate that you think. Hillary Clinton is sporting the lowest personal ratings of the campaign. Moreover, her 37 percent positive rating is the lowest the NBC/WSJ poll has recorded since March 2001, two months after she was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York. Read More
Having a big belly in middle age appears to greatly increase one's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia decades later, researchers said on Wednesday.
The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India. "We're having trouble finding the numbers that we need with the skills that are required to do these jobs," AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told a business group in San Antonio, where the company's headquarters is located.
The college student who got a stinging brushback from Chelsea Clinton when he asked about the Monica Lewinsky scandal said Wednesday on CBS News' The Early Show that he's a Clinton supporter who was trying to get her to show "what makes Hillary so strong."
i've taken this test four times in the last two years and come out just barely left of center each time. yes, i've admitted it to my friends and have tried to figure out where i've gone wrong.
some believe you can be so far one way as to be shoulder to shoulder with the other side - if you think in circular terms. i think in circular terms and am just wondering what others think as far as "left" and "right" tend to believe.
Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducts the Journal/NBC polls with Republican pollster Bill McInturff, called the latest poll a "myth-buster" that showed the pastor controversy is "not the beginning of the end for the Obama campaign." Read More
Iraqi forces fought militants loyal to Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra and Baghdad for a second day in an operation that has killed more than 60 people and wounded hundreds.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Baghdad, Agence France-Presse reported.
Penny Coleman: Sgt. Kristofer Shawn Goldsmith was one of the many soldiers and Marines, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, who gave testimony at last weekend's Winter Soldier investigation. They spoke from personal experience about what the American military is doing in those countries. They gave examples of what they had done, what they had been ordered to do, what they had witnessed, how their experiences had wounded them, both physically and psychically, and what kind of care and support they have, or most often have not gotten since coming home. The panel Goldsmith was on was called "The Breakdown of the U.S. Military," so he surprised the audience when he said that he was going to talk about prisoners of war. Read More
