|
chicagotribune.com - Nation/World
|
Headlines from chicagotribune.com
|
|
-
Report: Clinton to accept Obama cabinet post
President-elect Barack Obama has settled on former campaign rival Hillary Clinton to be secretary of State, following a high-stakes courtship that is expected to lead to a formal announcement after the Thanksgiving holiday, aides to both said.
-
Obama's Clinton-era picks fit the Bill
Hillary Clinton, former staffers up for top jobs
For all his talk of transformation, Barack Obama's earliest decisions suggest that the more things change, the more they look like the 1990s. But there's a certain irony here, given his pledge not to spend the next four years "refighting the same fights that we had in the 1990s."
-
Children at risk in food roulette
Mislabeling, lax oversight threaten people with allergies
American children with food allergies are suffering life-threatening--and completely avoidable--reactions because manufacturers mislabel their products and regulators fail to police store shelves, a Tribune investigation has found.
-
Florida teen reportedly kills self in front of webcam audience
A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke.
-
Nebraska approves 30-day age limit for safe-haven law
Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children -- including teenagers as old as 17 -- to be abandoned at state hospitals.
-
Mexico: Former drug czar took $450,000 bribe from cartel
MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Mexico's former drug czar was accused Friday of taking $450,000 from a powerful cartel, the highest-ranking official implicated so far in a corruption scandal over efforts by drug gangs to buy protection from the government.
-
Bush signs extension of jobless benefits amid hard times
WASHINGTON (AP) _ President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach.
|
|
