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Obama moves quickly to fill Cabinet positions - San Francisco Examiner
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 ...

Obama Names White House Communications Team - FOX News
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 ...

NOTEBOOK: Some fond moments for Bush at summit - Houston Chronicle
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 ...

US actors' guild to seek strike - Straits Times
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 ...

We seek snitches, Albuquerque police want ad says - WTOP Radio
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 ...

Betty James, who co-founded Slinky company, dies - Reading Eagle
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 ...

Granholm: Forget jets, make a better case - Detroit Free Press
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 ...

Knicks trade Jamal Crawford for Al Harrington, ship Zach Randolph and Mardy Collins to Clippers - New York Daily News
The Knicks completed a wild day of trading on Friday when they sent Zach Randolph and Mardy Collins to the Clippers for Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley. The deal comes less than two hours after Donnie Walsh traded Jamal Crawford to the Warriors for Al Harrington. Both deals were made to clear salary ...

Astronauts Step Out For Hardest Spacewalk - WSB-TV Atlanta
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts are spacewalking again in hopes of wrapping up greasy repair work on a gummed-up joint at the international space station. Saturday's spacewalk by Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Stephen Bowen is expected to be the longest and hardest one of the mission. It's the ...

Madonna and Ritchie granted 'quickie' divorce - Times of Oman
LONDON: Pop superstar Madonna and her British husband Guy Ritchie were granted a "quickie" divorce on the grounds of his unreasonable behaviour Friday, a month after announcing their eight-year marriage was over. District Judge Caroline Reid pronounced the decree nisi at the High Court's Family ...

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