Just for fun, the Huffington Post decided Tuesday night to crash a dinner party for Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). It was one of many fundraisers happening every day for different politicians around town. The event's location was listed on the ...Read More
The space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of six arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday to drop off some massive spare parts for the orbiting laboratory.
The two vehicles linked up on time at 11:53 a.m. EST as the ...Read More
View full sizeChris Pizzello, Associated PressFrom left, filmmaker Roger Corman, actress Lauren Bacall and cinematographer Gordon Willis pose with their honorary Oscars following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2009 Governors Awards Saturday in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES ...Read More
The New York Times's Gretchen Morgenson points out that lobbyists have won another victory that will lead to billions in taxpayer dollars being handed over to firms that helped spur the economic crisis. The Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of ...Read More
Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences broke with tradition ...Read More
WASHINGTON — Celebrities Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney and Denzel Washington, prominent Democratic fundraisers and heavyweights from the financial services and high-tech industries were among those landing visits with President Barack Obama or others at the White House during Obama's first ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The expected extension and expansion of a popular home-buyer tax credit should be the last extension Congress should consider, the tax credit's chief proponent said on Thursday. "This is the last extension of the homebuyer credit," Georgia Republican ...Read More
CHICAGO-AT&T and Verizon Communications are among the most vocal opponents to Net neutrality regulation, but the phone companies' top lobbyists reiterated Wednesday here at the Supercomm 2009 trade show that they would be alright with some regulation, so long as ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Congress is taking up the tricky issue of home buyer tax credits, five weeks before the current $8,000 credit for first-time home buyers is set to expire. In a rare appearance Tuesday as a witness before a Senate banking ...Read More
Rajendra Pachauri is chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is charged by the United Nations with assessing the risk of climate change resulting from human activity. The IPCC, which is preparing the fifth assessment report on the ...Read More
Get over it, America. Wall Street bankers make too much money. The latest example: Goldman Sachs says it has set aside $16.7 billion so far this year for compensation - or about $530,000 per employee. Not bad for a company ...Read More
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee has approved a sweeping health care reform bill aimed at lowering insurance costs and expanding coverage to more Americans. In the committee's vote, Senator Olympia Snow was the first Republican to vote in support of ...Read More
WASHINGTON — As the health care debate moves to the floor of Congress, most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s original vow to curb costs have fallen victim to organized interests and parochial politics.
And now the last two ...Read More
Companies from the Midwest and Southeast stormed Capitol Hill yesterday in an effort to swing the climate votes of senators from Ohio to Arkansas. Environmental groups corralled nearly 150 business leaders from 43 states and the District of Columbia. Many of ...Read More
Embattled Nevada Sen. John Ensign (R) said Tuesday that he broke no law in helping the husband of his former mistress get a lobbying job, saying he and his aides "were very careful in everything that we did." "We absolutely did ...Read More
The wireless industry has been on a charm offensive, working overtime to lobby regulators, journalists and lawmakers to ease off one of the most vibrant sectors of the U.S. economy. After last week's proposal for new net neutrality rules that ...Read More
Khloé Kardashian has nothing to worry about. Even at his bachelor party last night, Laker Lamar Odom was on his best behavior with his best bros. While he decided to cancel the big bash at Les Deux that was originally planned, he ...Read More
Business lobbyists gave President Barack Obama credit for delivering a powerful speech to Congress Wednesday night, but many doubt it will lead to solutions that curb rising health care costs. “The time for bickering is over,” Obama said. “The time for ...Read More
[T]here is nothing resembling the alleged "death panel" in the health care reform plan. A spokesperson for Palin told ABC News that the former governor was referring to a section promoting advance care planning that appears on page 425 of ...Read More
Al Franken has immersed himself in the health care debate. He's had a chance to question Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. He's signed on as a co-sponsor of a half dozen bills. Weeks into his late-starting Senate career, the former comedian ...Read More
The 32-year-old Asian victim is believed to have been mugged by two white men as he walked home from a dinner party at 4am on Saturday. He was found on Queen's Walk, a path that runs alongside Green Park close to ...Read More
