1. President Bush has made a surprise farewell visit to Iraq where he signed a new Iraqi-US security agreement. During a news conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, an Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at Bush. He didn't get hit. Bu...
1. A judge in Atlanta sentences Brian Nichols to multiple life sentences with no chance of parole. Nichols killed four people in a brazen courthouse shooting in 2005. The case was repeatedly bogged down by legal complications, angering families of v...
1.The Illinois attorney general files a motion with the state's highest court, asking justices to remove scandal-plagued Governor Rod Blagojevich from office. AG Lisa Madigan wants to strip the governor of his power saying impeachment by legislators...
1. The House has passed a $14 billion bailout bill for US automakers, but there remain questions about whether it will pass in the Senate. The vote there could come today. The House-approved package provides loans to GM and Chrysler almost immediate...
1.Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. says he is not a target of the investigation that led to the arrest of Governor Rod Blagojevich. Authorities accused Blagojevich of skimming to sell President-elect Barack Obama's open Senate seat. 2.Brooklyn...
1. President-elect Barack Obama says he had no contact with the Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich who is arrested today on federal corruption charges. Blagojevich is freed on his own recognizance. Federal prosecutors say Blagojevich was allegedly in...
1.An F/A-18 military jet approaching a marine base has crashed in a densely populated San Diego neighborhood. Officials say the pilot ejected. The crash sparked at least one house fire. 2.Moments after five Blackwater security guards turned themselv...
1. President-elect Barack Obama has named retired General Eric Shinseki as his Veterans Affairs secretary. Shinseki served as Army chief of staff in the Bush administration but left after testifying that it might take several hundred thousand US tro...
1. Five Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted for deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting are all decorated military veterans. The men are charged following the shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians in a busy Baghdad intersection. 2. House and Senate staffers are spen...
1.It will be at least nine years and maybe as long as 33 years before O.J. Simpson is a freeman again. The former football great was sentenced to prison by a Las Vegas judge for his part in an armed robbery at a hotel last year. The 61-year-old coul...
1. The head of the United Auto Workers Union says Congress needs to act now to help US automakers, or General Motors could fail by the end of the month. At a Senate hearing, GM's chief executive said the automakers have made mistakes, but are learni...
1.The United Auto Workers union says it's going to make changes in its contract. The union also says it will delay billions of dollars in payments to a union-run health care trust. It's all an effort to save jobs and help Detroit's Big Three automak...
1. The head of Ford says he is willing to work for a dollar a year, part of a push to get 25 billion dollars from Congress to help save the auto industry. The push for money includes appearances by all the auto chiefs before Congress. 2. A recovery...
1.Barack Obama has officially named former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his new choice for secretary of state. Obama also announced that Robert Gates will stay on as defense secretary. In a statement, Bill Clinton says his wife is the right perso...
1. It appears at least one of the ten terrorists who attacked Mumbai, India, has ties to a Pakistani militant group. A senior police officer in India says that's what the only surviving gunman is telling authorities. The group was banned in Pakistan...
