Archive for July, 2009

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Next time, Minnesota’s Democratic Party says, it will closely check its Internet links before sending news releases.

The party on Thursday recalled a statement criticizing Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty because it mistakenly linked…

The on-screen and behind-scenes feuding between rivals Fox News and MSNBC, which has erupted in recent months like two kids squabbling, has gotten so loud that their parents are trying to tell them to knock it off.

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief…

CELEBRATION — Aren’t you glad July 2009 is over?

We’ve read enough obituaries, watched enough tragedies and heard enough bombshells, the latest courtesy of Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz making baseball’s hot 100-plus list for all the wrong reasons….

The House voted Friday to slap restrictions on how Wall Street executives are paid after nine banks that took government bailout money rewarded thousands of their employees with sizable bonuses.

Bowing to populist anger and defying President Barack…

By Matthew Lee

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia on Friday bluntly rejected U.S. appeals for improved relations with Israel as a way to help restart Middle East peace talks, saying the Jewish state is not interested in a deal.

After talks…

MIAMI — When the Marlins sent a marketing department intern out to the field at Land Shark Stadium with a billy goat during the game Friday night against the Cubs, manager Lou Piniella couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

“Tasteless,” he said. “When…

If the rest of the “Made in Chicago” jazz series unfolds as dramatically as Thursday night’s opener, there will be remarkable listening ahead.

For the start of the annual lineup in Millennium Park scored on two levels: musical and historical. Each of the…

WASHINGTON, D.C.

New GI Bill ready for fall

The Post-9/11 GI Bill rolls out Saturday, just in time for the fall semester for veterans of recent wars. Reminiscent of the GI education benefits signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt two…