A trade group representing milk processors debuted an ad campaign Tuesday to eliminate New Deal-era federal price controls on unprocessed milk. The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) complains that the current price support system for dairy farmers dates back to 1937. Its ads call for “Big Government to get out of your milk.”
Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren started a tiff during a Tuesday night debate when she said she “kept [her] clothes on” when she was in college. Republican Senator Scott Brown, whom Warren hopes to replace, famously posed semi-nude in Cosmopolitan magazine while he was a law student.
With speculation raging over whether the rotund New Jersey governor Chris Christie will enter the GOP presidential nomination contest, whispers are emerging that his well-documented obesity could hurt his ability to contend for national office.
On October 4 West Virginians will elect a new governor to fill the vacancy created by Joe Manchin’s election to the U.S. Senate in Nov. 2010. Voters will choose between Democratic Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Republican businessman Bill Maloney.
Did you ever wonder what "60 Minutes" would be like without Andy Rooney? We're about to find out. The long-time CBS television personality is retiring from the show after 33 years.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed strengthening “circuit breaker” rules that suspend market trading in times of extreme market volatility.
During Monday’s episode of “Dancing with the Stars,” HLN host Nancy Grace had a nipple-slip moment after the final move of her quick-step routine with dancer Tristan MacManus.
The House Committee on Small Business wants to know what burdens small businesses face, and it has unveiled a new web service to get some answers.
In a forum in Washington on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner struck out at China’s lax intellectual property standards. Reuters reported that he told the forum the Chinese “have made possible systematic stealing of intellectual property of American companies and have not been very aggressive to put in place the basic protections for property rights that every serious economy needs over time.”
The Federal Open Market Committee announcement that included a $400 billion program to change the structure of the central bank's bond holding was delayed by eight minutes this afternoon, Fox Business and several other outlets reported.
After the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its intention to convert $400 billion in short-term Treasury holdings into 10-year Treasurys, the major stock indexes dropped sharply Wednesday. Ten-year Treasury yields also fell, indicating higher demand for those securities.
Football season is just two weeks old, so millions of men will spend the next three months crouched in front of the computer playing fantasy football. Many will emerge from their NFL-licensed hobbit holes in December and realize that their wives and girlfriends have disappeared along with their league playoff slots.
Enthralled with the commercial success of James Cameron and Jon Landau’s 3-D interplanetary adaptation of "Dances with Wolves," Disney plans to open specialized areas at its theme parks based on the film "Avatar."
About three-fourths of the 567 layoffs Sikorsky Aircraft plans to make worldwide will affect its Connecticut operations, The Hartford Courant reports.
Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, apparently having no crime to deter or corruption to investigate, declared Sept. 16 “Hayden Panettiere Day” in honor of the former child star and "Heroes" actress.
NASA astronomers recently announced their first discovery of a planet orbiting a binary star system. Officially known as Kepler-16b, the planet has been nicknamed "Tatooine" after Luke Skywalker’s home planet from the original Star Wars film. But unlike that fictional planet, this one is not inhabitable by any known life forms. And it exists in our own Milky Way, not some galaxy far, far away.
Bill Clinton may have already turned 65, but Hollywood will observe the former president’s birthday on October 14 at the Hollywood Palladium theater in Los Angeles. The next night, entertainers including Lady Gaga, Usher and Bono will honor the tenth anniversary of Clinton’s foundation at the Hollywood Bowl.
Monday afternoon, just two months after the Fox News Channel's "Glenn Beck Program" went off the air, its controversial host will begin streaming online content from his new venture, GBTV.
Nine candidates, including four Democrats, one Libertarian, and four non-party candidates have filed papers to challenge Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in an October election. The deadline for qualifying for the gubernatorial election was 5:00 p.m. on Thursday.
