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A fight over a reclining seat on a United Airlines plane diverts the flight and prompts a fighter jet escort.
Simmering air travel tensions bubbled over this weekend when a United Airlines passenger smacked a fellow flier over an unwelcome seat recline, The Washington Post reported.
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Reports have surfaced that authorities have video revealing new details in the Tucson shooting. Tom Foreman reports.
1. Dave Niehaus, Mariners legend: They lingered in the stands for hours at Safeco Field last Saturday, thousands of Mariners fans paying tribute to Niehaus, the team's voice for 34 seasons and a beloved figure in the Pacific Northwest. The Hall of Fame broadcaster died last Wednesday of a heart attack at age 75. (The Seattle Times website set up a special tribute section for Niehaus, complete with his greatest calls and reflections from fans.)
Investing guru Warren Buffett obviously doesn't need or probably want my investing advice.
With the final results in from all but a few heated races, what may have been obvious to some is now proven with numbers: media attention doesn't guarantee victory. In some cases it may even be damaging. Although the GOP gained a majority in the House, many of the party's most talked-about candidates lost.
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CNN's Anderson Cooper reports on outside groups whose money funds political ads, but whose IDs can't be confirmed.
After a week mostly focused on Iraq and Mideast diplomacy, it's back to the economy for President Obama, who will deliver remarks Friday on the August unemployment numbers.
Education stocks took a hit Monday after the government revealed data on student loan repayment rates that could impose hefty penalties on for-profit colleges and universities or make them ineligible for federal student loans.
The Washington Post Co. said Monday it has sold struggling Newsweek magazine, which it has published for half a century, to audio industry pioneer Sidney Harman.
The September 11, 2001, attacks have led to an intelligence community so large and unwieldy that it's unmanageable and inefficient -- and no one knows how much it costs, according to a two-year investigation by the Washington Post.
Washington Post co. announced Wednesday it is looking to sell Newsweek magazine, which has posted losses since 2007 and is expected to continue to see sales decline in 2010.
Next time you find yourself at a boisterous bistro shouting at your dinner companions over the plat du jour, it might be the result of a restaurant up-sell.
Hours before a showdown in the Senate over the Democrats' financial reform legislation, a new national poll indicates that nearly two-thirds of Americans support stricter regulations of banks and Wall Street firms.
1. Kurt Andersen, novelist and public radio host
This week, four senior retired officers wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post predicting "grave harm" to the military if President Obama moves forward with his vow to let gays serve openly.
In the space of a few minutes and a few notes, unemployed Scottish charity worker Susan Boyle won over 3,000 fans. In the space of a few days and YouTube, she has grabbed the attention of millions.
The Washington Post announced Friday that it will drop its business section as a separate part of the paper at the end of the month.
Flipping through The Washington Post this morning I came across a fascinating story about an age-old Washington tradition. It is one that kicks into high gear toward the end of any administration: the painting of official portraits. You might even remember when President and Mrs. Bush invited President and Sen. Clinton to the White House for the unveiling of the Clintons' official portraits.
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CNN's Campbell Brown sounds off on the exorbitant cost to taxpayers for portraits of outgoing administration officials.
A U.S. Army program in which soldiers pay cash to Iraqis to help with expenses, large and small, has spent $2.8 billion in five years, The Washington Post reported
True or False: In the U.S, more people recycle than vote.
Not since Robert Redford played Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in All The President's Men has political journalism ever looked so good.
These are some of the facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting.
Witnesses told a House panel Monday that wounded U.S. soldiers are forced to struggle against a nightmarish and untrustworthy Army medical system that leaves veterans stranded in unfit conditions.
A member of the 9/11 commission said Wednesday that panel members so distrusted testimony from Pentagon officials that they referred their concerns to the Pentagon's inspector general.
We all awoke to headlines in our nation's most important newspapers reminding us that this is "A Day Without Immigrants." Not illegal immigrants, mind you, but immigrants.
A toughened bankruptcy law requiring debtors to seek credit counseling is doing to little to curb the number of consumers filing for bankruptcy, according to the Washington Post.
Tough times for the news business these days, in all kinds of ways and for all kinds of reasons.
Expect a somber mood Wednesday at the UBS Global Media Conference in New York City: It is newspaper day.
The CIA has sent a report to the U.S. Justice Department indicating classified information may have been leaked to The Washington Post for its recent story about secret prisons run by the spy agency, according to U.S. officials.
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It may be the end of an era for super-sized offerings as more consumers show a preference for controlled portion sizes, according to a report in the Washington Post Tuesday.
There is no sign of a slowdown in the housing market, thanks to an expanding economy, regulatory constraints and a limited supply of land for development, according to a report cited by the Washington Post Monday.
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Lost in the hullabaloo over whether Google's Dutch-auction IPO was an egalitarian watershed or a bureaucratic disaster is the fact that the Internet search giant set itself up as a dual-listed comp...
Seven investment banking firms have agreed to pay a total of $3.7 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they did not disclose payments from companies about whom they issued research, according to a published report.
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The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to find compromise language to win approval of a proposal to make it easier for shareholders to nominate corporate board members, according to a published report.
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It's likely that sometime in the near future, a rare and--most would say--wonderful thing will happen over at the Washington Post Co. The company's stock price will hit $1,000 a share. Yup, the Pos...
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With the flow of fourth-quarter earnings reports slowing to a trickle, investors may be looking for few investment ideas, and two money managers appeared on CNNfn to suggest some stocks in the mining, media and petroleum sectors.
It is not easy being an Internet stock. Or an Internet fund. But if you call yourself an Internet fund and don't limit yourself to Net stocks--well, then, things get at least a little bit easier. T...
Al Neuharth's first eureka moment coincided with his birth--in Eureka, S.D., in 1924--and he's had newsprint in his blood from the beginning. As a boy he delivered copies of the local Alpena Journa...
'Tis not the season for timidity. Loudmouth Chris Matthews muscles a new contract to keep his show Hardball on MSNBC through 2009; Washington Post writers pull bylines to protest a contract offer; ...
When Alan Greenspan told Senators in early March that "the recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way," it wasn't exactly news to economic forecaster...
This economy has been rough on investors. But at least they can take comfort in the fact that Jeff Bezos isn't faring any better. Amazon held huge stakes in now defunct businesses like Webvan, Kozm...
When it comes to power lunch, you are not what you eat. You are where you eat. Local restaurant critics give us the lowdown:
Is financial anxiety on the rise, or does it just seem that way? A search for headline mentions of hope and fear in recent business-related stories in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Wa...
A slew of expressions popular on Wall Street imply that investors generally agree about the direction of stocks: Pundits talk about "market sentiment" as if it were a single force and refer repeate...
Hunters use birdshot to bag as many highflying winged creatures as they can. And for the same reason, FORTUNE 500 corporations--not your typical venture capitalists--are taking sums that are a smal...
Newspapers should have been dead by now. They lost nearly 5.5 million subscribers between 1986 and 1996, and pundits declared the end was near. Young people didn't read, they said. The Net would re...
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-- GLORIA FREUND, 50, Nassau County executive director for the National Organization for Women, on the Citadel's insistence that Shannon Faulkner, its first female candidate, get a crew cut:"Some w...
Some Montgomery County schools are striking a blow for cultural diversity . . . by requiring elementary student council elections to include minority and female candidates. At least two Montgomery ...
When your servant was young, he started the day off with the sports page, but now, long in the tooth, he finds the paper automatically falling open at the daily report on the bond market. Sad, is i...
In which this department presents its third annual salute to the dog days, a feature incorporating the dozen most unsurprising headlines of the past 12 months. As in the past, we have dismissively ...
A decision to require tuberculosis tests for U.S. Postal Service job applicants in the Washington area has raised . . . concerns about how to curb the growing number of local TB cases without stepp...
THEY DRAW to inside straights. They carry coals to Newcastle. And when they are in Rome, they don't even do as Romans do. Yet they prosper. They are the men and women of the National Business Hall ...
Most of the black workers who sued the Du Pont Louisville plant for discrimination in 1973 have retired. One-third of them have died . . .But last week, the case that outlasted a generation was res...
Among our reasons for preferring Ronald Reagan over George Bush is that Ron knew exactly what to do when confronting the mighty metric-conversion movement: Ron squarely opposed the movement and eli...
Brace yourself for a major change in leadership in '92. No, we're not referring to the upcoming presidential election, but to a fundamental shift in the stock market that could carry the Dow indust...
You may not believe it, but we claim authorship of the headline above. It was not produced by chimps randomly banging on a keyboard or by CBS moles infiltrated into the Keeping Up production depart...
A former . . . county special education teacher, who was not rehired because she failed a National Teachers Examination, has alleged in federal court that she is being discriminated against because...
Questions abound about the working habits of the U.S. Congress. One question is: What does it mean to say that Congress is ''in session,'' as it is repeatedly stated to be nowadays, when in fact ev...
HOLLYWOOD -- With Soviets basking in the spirit of glasnost and Communist governments falling one right after another, the world's supply of stock villains is seriously threatened . . . ''Obviously...
The Democrats are said to have a problem. They are said to be (gasp!) abandoning their principles. According to one of them, Representative Dave Nagle of Iowa, the problem is that ''we have not def...
Two years ago, your correspondent had a part-time tour of duty in the Pentagon, serving as editor for a high-level group called the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (CILS). The commissio...
WHY DON'T WE do this more often?'' the 500 largest industrial companies might say of 1988, a year of splendid profitability. ''We do,'' 21 members of the group could answer. These are the stars of ...
STANFORD, CALIF. -- As . . . applications to Stanford University set records and news magazines began to call it the best college in America, this sunny . . . campus kept a little secret . . . Stan...
Among the sillier happenings in medialand recently was the second annual byline protest at the Washington Post. The protest, on July 12 and 13, was supposed to call attention to the fact that the e...
SAN FRANCISCO -- This most visual of American cities . . . has become the plastic-surgery capital of the world . . . ((It)) has acquired . . . the critical mass of lawyers, bankers, accountants, an...
MULLICA HILL, N.J. -- Two weeks ago, the sixth graders at Harrison Elementary School set out to prove the laws of good nutrition . . . They acquired two baby rats ((called)) Honey and Nut . . . For...
A convicted killer serving a life term has sued New Hampshire prison officials . . . for not honoring his bid for occasional freedom from smoke-filled rooms . . . E. Clifford Avery's suit could be ...
DONALD GRAHAM, 42, publisher of the Washington Post, in answer to a shareholder's question at the annual meeting: ''Have you ever committed adultery?'' ''No. And at the directors' meeting this morn...
''Everybody says, 'Why didn't I think of that?' '' Arlene Houser said . . . Houser is president of New Williamsburg Inc., a newly formed . . . company ((selling)) caskets that look a great deal dif...
The latest idea in Washington -- to instantly make good on the boldface above -- is to have the government spend more money. Wait, do not slink away so fast. We know that spending money is not a ne...
Lease wars are being waged at 20th and L Streets, N.W., the latest battleground for developers trying to fill their marble and glass office palaces . . . At 2021 L Street, developers . . . offered ...
A civil rights group announced yesterday that the Washington Post has adopted a new policy requiring real estate companies to include . . . blacks among the people portrayed in their advertisements...
Many of the 5,000 District youths age 14 and 15 who are employed by the city's summer jobs program earn their paychecks by sitting in on current events classes . . . and listening to lectures that ...
Mary Rose Oakar . . . is receiving increasing attention as a tough legislator squarely within the liberal Democratic . . . tradition . . . While cutting an increasingly high profile in Washington, ...
District Mayor Marion Barry got a big laugh last month when he observed that his plan for a new prison would draw no opposition from the folks in the Congressional Cemetery, which adjoins the propo...
''Humor is one of the prime social adaptive mechanisms . . . ,'' says John Parrish Sprowl, a University of Connecticut professor . . . Sprowl adds that while many of us know intuitively the best us...
PARIS -- Earlier this month, the in-house magazine for France's left-wing intellectuals came out with a cover that showed a jubilant Mickey Mouse flying over the Eiffel Tower. ''American Cultural I...
A former apple orchard . . . across the street from the White House (is) known as Lafayette Square. (In) August . . . the National Park Service complained of ''visual blight'' in the park and . . ....
American sugar producers . . . apparently are preparing to turn over large amounts of ''surplus'' sugar to the government . . . Hawaiian growers, reportedly buying Filipino sugar to meet their cont...
The big news about civil rights these days is something that isn't happening. < What is happening is giving the Washington Post conniptions and causing it to overproduce headlines and editorials ab...
IF YOU ARE among the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have recently begun using ''on-line databases,'' you doubtless have a strong sense of doing something futuristic. The explosion of these ...
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