The Times of London reports today that Madonna has lined up famed divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton, fueling rumors that she is splitting with her husband, Guy Ritchie.

The richest man in the world is ramping up his involvement in the campaign to elect Barack Obama the next president.

History won’t be kind to Angelo Mozilo, the founder of Countrywide Financial whose shareholders approved the company’s sale to Bank of America yesterday. His is a great American success story, but a tragedy, too.

The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at 2 percent today, with Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher providing the lone dissenting vote among the nine members of the Federal Open Market Committee. Fisher, fearing inflation, wanted to raise rates.

How is Speaker Nancy Pelosi connected to the actress Uma Thurman?

Anne Hathaway’s recently dumped boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, was arrested yesterday for fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Washington Mutual shareholders approved a $7 billion infusion from TPG and other investors yesterday, thereby blessing — they had little choice — the return of Texas deal maker David Bonderman to the company’s board of directors. The decision came on a day when WaMu stock hit a 16-year low.

Quick. Who’s the head of the Environmental Protection Agency?

The publisher that helped torpedo John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign with a book that elaborated on the Swift Boat attack ads against him plans to release a critical biography of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama this summer.

Barack Obama goes to Los Angeles tonight for a star-studded campaign fundraiser at the Los Angeles Music Center.