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Hayden insists warrantless surveillance program legal
WASHINGTON AP - CIA nominee Gen. Michael Hayden insisted on Thursday that the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program was legal and that it was designed to ensnare terrorists - not spy on ordinary people."Clearly the privacy of American citizens is a concern constantly," the four-star Air Force general told the Senate Intelligence Committee at his confirmation hearing.Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families
SAN ANTONIO AP - Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.The church records offer a peek into an intricate culture in which men related to the sect's prophet, Warren Jeffs, enjoyed favored-husband status in the distribution of wives and all young women were married by 24.Wealthy's belt-tightening chokes blue-collar workers
It's hard to feel sorry for well-heeled shoppers whose idea of tough economic times is passing on $1,000 Burberry raincoats or that $300 limo ride while the working poor skimp on vegetables and take the bus.But economists say that recent signs of cutting back by the affluent could hurt the economy and deliver even more pain to lower-income workers, who are dependent on their business and fat tips.Summers, Geithner have baggage, not fatal flaws
Lawrence Summers is a brilliant, sometimes arrogant economist who can be hard to work with. Timothy Geithner, whose sharp mind has been honed by five years of dealing with the heads of the world's largest financial institutions, got his job as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank partly because he is easy to work with.Official says United, Delta have discussed combining; airlines deny it
ATLANTA AP - UAL Corp.'s United Airlines and DeltaAirLines Inc. have been discussing a combination between the nation's second- and third-largest carriers that would keep the United name and the corporate headquarters in Chicago, The Associated Press has learned.But Delta issued a statement denying "published reports that it had engaged in merger talk with United.Trending Stories
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