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- Transition sources point to Geithner, Richardson
President-elect Barack Obama's potential Cabinet began to take shape today, as two sources close to the transition team said that New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner is "on track" to be offered the Treasury secretary post. Sources also said that Gov. Bill Richardson is a serious contender for commerce secretary.
- Brown: Auto CEOs need reality check
Much has been made of the car company CEOs showing up for Congressional hearings in private jets to ask for a taxpayer-funded bailout.
- Prosecutor asks to drop charge against boy, 8
An Arizona prosecutor Friday asked to dismiss one of two murder charges against an 8-year-old boy suspected in the shooting deaths of his father and another man.
- Verizon fires workers over Obama records
Verizon Wireless has fired employees connected to a breach of records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama earlier this year, a Verizon source told CNN on Friday.
- U.N.: Gunmen kill woman while trying to rape girl
Armed men entered a Congolese camp for displaced people Friday to kidnap and rape a girl, but when the girl screamed, the gunmen fired shots, killing a 20-year-old woman, a U.N. spokesman said.
- Officials: Teen's suicide seen on Internet
With his webcam trained on him, a Florida teenager died in his bed of a drug overdose while others watched over the Internet, officials said Friday.
- Crunch stops work on Europe's tallest tower
Construction work has stopped on Europe's tallest building after developers said their lofty ambitions had been hit by the global financial crisis, a Russian news agency reported Friday.
- South Africa teen sentenced for 'racist' murders
A white teen convicted of murdering four blacks, including two children, in a racist killing spree in South Africa's North West province was sentenced Friday to four life terms in prison.
- Beavers back in Britain after 400 years
For the first time in 400 years, the beaver has returned to Great Britain.
- 'The less you have, the more you like it'
Kate Meinhardt felt like a clown jammed into a Volkswagen bug when she lived in a 21-square-foot room aboard a circus train.
Health
- 175 pounds lighter, woman takes flight
Two years ago, Karen Daniel was wider around than she was tall. Weighing 375 pounds, the 45-year-old wife and mother had high blood pressure, her knees hurt and she was always hot. But with a lot of detremination, hard work and help Daniel has managed to shed almost half her weight and move down 16 dress sizes.
- Many holes in kids' mental health care
As mental health advocates, policy makers, practitioners, educators and researchers gathered at the Carter Center to discuss the progress in addressing American children's mental health needs, a drama of sorts was reaching its conclusion halfway across the country.
- Study: Lung cancer pill as effective as chemo
A cancer treatment that comes in a pill is as effective as the standard chemotherapy for lung patients who had previously been treated for their cancer, according to a study released Thursday.
- Attorney general seems fine after fainting spell
Doctors gave U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey a clean bill of health Friday morning after he apparently had a fainting spell, according to Gina Talamona, spokeswoman for Department of Justice.
- Support and Hot Wheels after fire
After the fire, all that was left of Jonathan Reyes' massive Hot Wheels collection was a piece of metal that once was part of a toy car.
- Woman given windpipe created in laboratory
Medical experts hailed a "milestone in medicine" Wednesday as they announced the successful transplant of a human windpipe engineered with the patient's own stem cells.
- U.S. opens FDA office in China after scares
The first foreign office of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened Wednesday in Beijing after an influx of contaminated Chinese food and drug imports to the United States.
Entertainment
- Review: 'Twilight' needs more flash
The kids are burning for "Twilight," but will the book's fans mind that the effects are decidedly low-tech, that there are no famous faces and that the whole show hasn't been transplanted to glossy Los Angeles? I doubt it.
- Review: The wonderful world of 'Bolt'
The antics of a dog who confuses his day job as the canine superhero in a TV action series with his real-life skills is plenty high-concept. But in "Bolt" -- a blithe, digitally animated (and, in select theaters, 3-D) doggy comedy as zippy as its name -- the fanciful premise only paws the surface of what's going on as we sit in the dark wearing plastic 3-D glasses.
- What made famous people successful
Why are some people amazingly successful -- and other people with the same intelligence or abilities just part of the crowd?
- Gallery: Celebs out and about
- Crude prank calls broke BBC rules
Lewd telephone calls by two British comedians to a well-known actor, which were aired in a BBC radio program, were "grossly offensive" and should never have taken place, the public broadcaster's watchdog group said Friday.
- What MFSB really meant
The music of Philadelphia International Records sounds effortless, and no wonder: It was about family, say founders Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. That's what you hear on all those hits by the O'Jays, Delfonics, Stylistics and others.
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Headlines last updated on Nov 21, 2008 22:51:37pm.
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