Sun, May 24th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, World |

It's too bad that Barack Obama isn't planning to drop by next week, on his way from Andrews Air Force Base to Cairo, because we've grown accustomed to visits by U.S. presidents. While Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were ...Read More

Hillary Clinton is open to coffee with Sarah Palin

Sun, Nov 15th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. |

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is open to having coffee with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whose forthcoming book about the 2008 presidential campaign is stirring controversy. "I absolutely would look forward to having coffee," Clinton said ...Read More

Clinton ready to have coffee with Palin

Sun, Nov 15th, 2009 | Politics |

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin over coffee. In an interview for broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Clinton says she's never met the one-time GOP vice presidential ...Read More

Clinton: Happy To Talk To Palin Over Coffee

Sun, Nov 15th, 2009 | Politics, Top Stories |

WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin over coffee. In an interview for broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Clinton says she's never met the one-time GOP ...Read More

Clinton: Would look forward to coffee with Palin

Sun, Nov 15th, 2009 | Politics, Top Stories |

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin over coffee. In an interview for broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Clinton says she's never met the one-time GOP vice presidential hopeful and ...Read More

Whose customers is McDonald's luring with coffee?

Tue, Nov 3rd, 2009 | Entertainment |

Ever see the movie "You've Got Mail" starring Tom Hanks as the owner of a Barnes & Noble-like chain of super-size book stores and Meg Ryan as the owner of a cute little children's book store? Goofy but appeals to ...Read More

Note to Self: Order Lots of Coffee for NJ Governor's Race

Wed, Oct 28th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

New polls in the New Jersey governor's race are as muddy as the state's machine politics. A survey by the Public Policy Institute, a Democratic firm, has GOP candidate Chris Christie leading Democratic Governor Jon Corzine by four points. A ...Read More

Victim: Harvard coffee poisoning no accident

Mon, Oct 26th, 2009 | SciTech, Top Stories |

BOSTON - One of six Harvard Medical School researchers sickened after drinking coffee laced with a toxic chemical said Monday he does not see how the poisoning could have been accidental, but has no idea who might be responsible. University police ...Read More

Tainted Coffee Poisons Harvard Lab Workers

Mon, Oct 26th, 2009 | SciTech |

Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in August after drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative, according to university officials. In an internal memo first reported in the Boston Herald's Sunday editions, the school said the coffee came ...Read More

6 at Harvard Were Sickened by Tainted Coffee

Sun, Oct 25th, 2009 | SciTech, Top Stories |

BOSTON (AP) — Six medical researchers at Harvard University were poisoned in August after drinking coffee tainted with a chemical preservative, university officials say. In an internal memorandum that was first reported in The Boston Herald on Sunday, the university said ...Read More

Harvard: Lab workers poisoned by tainted coffee

Sun, Oct 25th, 2009 | SciTech, Top Stories |

BOSTON -- Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in August after drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative, according to university officials. In an internal memo first reported in the Boston Herald's Sunday editions, the school said the ...Read More

Virginia man arrested for indecent exposure for being naked in his own home

Thu, Oct 22nd, 2009 | U.S. |

A Virginia man was arrested for being naked - in his own home. Eric Williamson was making coffee in his kitchen Monday morning and didn’t thing anything of the fact that he was nude since he was alone in the house, ...Read More

Virginia Man Charged With Indecent Exposure After Making Coffee Naked in Kitchen

Thu, Oct 22nd, 2009 | Most Viewed, U.S. |

A Springfield man is facing indecent exposure charges after police say he stood naked inside his home as a 7-year-old boy and his mother walked by. Twenty-nine-year-old Eric Williamson denies any wrongdoing and says any exposure was accidental. "Yes, I wasn't wearing ...Read More

Honduras leader endures pressure on Zelaya return

Fri, Oct 16th, 2009 | World |

Honduras leader endures pressure on Zelaya return TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti is resisting international pressure to reinstate his rival President Manuel Zelaya, but envoys for the leftist ousted in a coup hope for a deal on Friday. Soldiers exiled Zelaya on June 28, ...Read More

Unilever to Buy Sara Lee Soaps in Biggest Purchase Since 2000

Fri, Sep 25th, 2009 | Business |

Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Unilever, the maker of Dove soap,agreed to buy Sara Lee Corp.’s personal-care and Europeandetergent unit for 1.28 billion euros ($1.88 billion), gainingSanex shower gel in its biggest purchase in nine years. Unilever, based in London and Rotterdam, ...Read More

Kate Gosselin Takes Off Her Wedding Band

Fri, Jul 24th, 2009 | Entertainment, Most Viewed |

As her estranged husband gallivants around New York City and the Hamptons with other women, Kate Gosselin has taken a more subtle step toward a new life: She's removed her wedding band. The reality star was photographed Friday for the first ...Read More

McDonald's May Sales Gain 5.1% as McCafe Ads Boost Drink Orders

Mon, Jun 8th, 2009 | Business |

June 8 (Bloomberg) -- McDonald’s Corp., the world’s largestrestaurant company, said global sales rose 5.1 percent in May,exceeding analysts’ estimates as it promoted its coffee drinksin the U.S. Sales at U.S. restaurants open at least 13 months climbed2.8 percent, while European ...Read More

To open a Muslim dialogue, Obama visits Saudi king

Wed, Jun 3rd, 2009 | Most Viewed, Politics, World |

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is beginning his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world by paying a call on Saudi King Abdullah, guardian of Islam's sacred sites in Mecca and Medina. The monarch of Saudi Arabia plans ...Read More

Dave Matthews Bands finds the strength within

Mon, Jun 1st, 2009 | Entertainment |

BOSTON — The band leader wanders into a hotel lounge for an afternoon appointment sounding groggy and hoarse, sporting a thick dark stubble, craving coffee and seeming to validate all of those clichés about a musician's life on the road. But ...Read More

Clinton and Bush Disagree on Cuba, Show Camaraderie in Canada

Sat, May 30th, 2009 | World |

May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Presidents Bill Clintonand George W. Bush disagreed on the Cuban trade embargo and gaymarriage, while showing camaraderie as they reflected on theirWhite House tenures during a joint event in Canada. Clinton and Bush, both 62, ...Read More

Leno leaves 'Tonight' much as he found it

Sat, May 30th, 2009 | Entertainment, Most Viewed, Top Stories |

There have been 11 U.S. presidents since 1954 but only four hosts of "The Tonight Show." The latest, Jay Leno, finished his 17-year run Friday night; his last guest was scheduled to be his successor, Conan O'Brien, himself coming off ...Read More