Burkle still chasing a newspaper dream

It wasn’t so long ago that Michael Moore devoted an entire movie to nailing the CEO of a Big Three automaker.

This time round, the chiefs of Detroit’s big three automakers arrived at the nation’s Capitol like supplicants - transported in hybrid cars, rather than private jets.

Freedom’s Watch, the political advocacy group once hailed as the conservative answer to MoveOn.org, may be the latest casualty of the economic downturn.

Though Proposition 8 passed in last month’s election, protests of the newly re-instituted ban on gay marriage in California continue.

A little more than three months after he lit up the Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps is adding honors and wealth but losing muscle.

Some see President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to sit down for his first print interview with Ebony magazine as a symbolic nod to the readers of the historic black magazine.

David Gregory is in talks with NBC News to become the next moderator of “Meet the Press,” the popular Sunday news show.

Her husband out of a job, Silda Wall Spitzer has gone to work for a New York City hedge fund.

Mark C. Pigott, 54, isn’t British, but the millionaire trucking industry executive who lives in Washington state has made it his mission to help English institutions flourish.

Susan E. Rice, named today by Barack Obama to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is only 44 years old, but it would seem she’s been preparing a lifetime for her new role.