Obama for President

Obama for President

However this election turns out, it will dramatically advance America's slow progress toward equality and inclusion. It took Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary courage in the Civil War to get us here. It took an epic battle to secure women the right to vote. It took the perseverance of the civil rights movement. Now we have an election in which we will choose the first African-American president

Yahoo to lay off 10 percent of workforce as quarterly sales decline

Yahoo to lay off 10 percent of workforce as quarterly sales decline

Yahoo announced Tuesday it would lay off 10 percent of its workforce, or about 1,500 people, as sales declined for the third consecutive quarter.

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos, Waterboarding Got White House Nod

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos, Waterboarding Got White House Nod

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

Politics of Attack

Politics of Attack

It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.

Historic bailout bill passes Congress; Bush signs

Historic bailout bill passes Congress; Bush signs

With the economy on the brink of meltdown and elections looming, a reluctant Congress abruptly reversed course and approved a historic $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday. President Bush swiftly signed it.