Boy, just when you thought the job situation couldn't get any worse, just moments ago, word of an unexpected jump in first-time jobless claims. The Labor Department says new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 8,000 to 480,000. That's the fourt...
LAHOOD: What I said in there was obviously a misstatement. I -- what I meant to say, and what I thought I said was, if you own one of these cars or if you're in doubt take it to the dealer, and they're going to fix it. OK? Is that good enough for eve...
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? It's a debate that raged among parents and one that's divided the autism community. Now one journal that put out a paper showing an autism vaccine link is retracting it. CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth C...
The Toyota tribulations. If you own one, you almost have to be wondering, what the heck is next? Crisis of confidence clouded by confusion. Now the Prius has a huge problem. Toyota says that a glitch in the electronic brakes could cause a delay when...
at the vanguard in many cases of accepting alternative forms of lifestyle. Hey let's rouse a slumbering rodent and try to predict the next few weeks of weather. Awake young vermins. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce to you, Punxsutawney Phil! Unb...
Right now Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Capitol Hill discussing lifting the ban on gays serving in the armed forces. It's the first major step in that direction since the 1993 policy Don't Ask Don't Tell ignited the firestorm. Here's CNN's Pentag...
Well, it's helped us, but we're a little different in the sense of the amounts of money that we have received thus far. Ours has been about $22 million. We received money basically in categorical grants. We got CDDB or community development funds, we...
PHILLIPS: All right. Let's talk about how your stimulus money is helping or not helping across America. We're going to the local level here, talking with three mayors. The mayor of Laredo, Texas, Raul Salinas, also Mayor James Baker of Wilmington, De...
So, the debt limit is how much money a country can borrow. Yesterday, the Senate voted to increase it. This doesn't mean the debt limit is definitely going up, though; it still has to get through the House of Representatives. But let's look at the nu...
by ljdsoft AZUZ: After the State of the Union, presidents will often travel around the country promoting some of the ideas and programs that they announced during the speech. President Obama hit the road by train. He's pushing for a nationwide, high-...
It is the most awesome day of the week; we're glad you're spending part of it with CNN Student News. Talking you through today's commercial-free headlines, I'm Carl Azuz. 70 minutes, more than 7,000 words: It all adds up to President Obama's first, o...
CAMPBELL BROWN at 8:00 p.m., you can find out why some residents in Montana think that their state has made a double fault with their tax dollars. I bet Jeffrey Miron would weigh in on that. And then AC 360 investigates why stimulus money is going to...
