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Ella Fitzgerald, with unerring sense of swing, conquered jazz
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, on what would have been her 96th birthday. The stylized doodle puts her in the spotlight on stage leading a quartet. Fitzgerald became the preeminent female jazz singer of...
Tags: Apollo Theater, Chick Webb
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Obama: Congress could turn off cuts with compromise
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Monday chastised Congress for “careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis” and tried to blame lawmakers for the spending cuts due to take a bite out of agency budgets on Friday. Speaking...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Justice System, Government, U.S. Congress, Regional Authority
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Boehner: Time for Senate to get to work and stop sequester
WASHINGTON – Seeking to shift blame onto President Obama’s party for the looming budget cuts, House Speaker John A. Boehner said Tuesday it was about time the Senate “gets off their ass” and develop a way around the enormous...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Petroleum Industry, John Boehner
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President to meet with John McCain, Lindsey Graham on immigration
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will meet Tuesday with two of the Republicans leading Senate efforts to craft comprehensive immigration legislation. The invitation that will bring Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Chuck Hagel, Jeff Flake
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Boehner says Obama using military as 'props' in sequester fight
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans said President Obama was using the nation’s armed forces as a “campaign prop” when he should be working with his party’s leaders in the Senate to avoid across-the-board spending cuts set to take...
Tags: U.S. Congress, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Politics, Barack Obama
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Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle
Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...
Tags: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment, Justice and Rights, University of Mississippi, Durham (Durham, North Carolina)
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UCLA: Dismal outlook for California's inland areas
Money & CompanyIn their quarterly analysis of California's economic prospects, UCLA researchers are particularly downbeat on the outlook for inland areas that were powered for years by growing populations and booming housing markets. Areas such as the Inland Empire... -
Question of the day: Does Boise State's win mean the Broncos will be in the BCS championship game? [Updated]
The Fabulous ForumReporters from around Tribune Co. tackle the question of the day, then you get a chance to chime in and tell them why they're wrong. Check back throughout the day for updates. [Updated at 10:38 a.m. Teddy Greenstein, Chicago TribuneAmerica...... -
Times health editor Tami Dennis to oversee health content for Tribune Co.
Readers' Representative JournalA memo from Times Editor Russ Stanton, Chicago Tribune Editor Gerry Kern and Geoff Melick, Tribune Co. senior vice president/health: Last year, we identified the topic of health as a prime opportunity for Tribune Co. to expand its reach as...... -
Question of the day: Who will win this yearâs NASCAR Chase: Hamlin or Johnson? [Updated]
The Fabulous ForumWriters from around the Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Check back throughout the day for more responses, and feel free to leave a comment of your own. Jim Peltz, Los Angeles Times Any sport with the vagaries of...... -
Question of the day: At this point in the college basketball season, which conference is the best?
The Fabulous ForumReporters from around Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Please check back throughout the day for more responses, and feel free to leave a comment of your own. Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times It's hard not to have a...... -
Richard Whitcomb dies at 88; engineer's discoveries changed design of jets
Richard Whitcomb, a mechanical engineer who changed the way we fly today with three design innovations that made airplanes fly farther and faster using less fuel, has died. He was 88.
Whitcomb died of pneumonia Tuesday in Newport News, Va.
His...Tags: Coca-Cola, Howard Hughes, The Washington Post, Science, Chuck Yeager
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