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T. Boone Pickens to visit "Meet the Press"; Arnold Schwarzenegger drops by "This Week"

Big names on the Sunday morning circuit. ABC's "This Week" has one of the biggest: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the headliner guest. George Stephanopoulos leads a discussion featuring Paul Krugman of The New...

First thoughts: Hillary at State?

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann *** Hillary at State? As we've learned with anything regarding the Clintons, one never knows exactly how serious the speculation might be. But let's assume the...

CNN's Toobin Seems Puzzled by Difference Between a Gun and a Missile

Liberal CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appeared on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS on Wednesday night, and Smiley focused on several "hot button" issues that were largely ignored in the general election: campaign finance reform,...

Talk shows for Nov. 19

7 a.m. The Early Show: Pink performs; financial crisis; identity theft. 7 a.m. Today: The Ends of the Earth series; Carla Bruni-Sarkozy performs; actress Mary Steenburgen ("Four Christmases"). 7 a.m. Good Morning America 9 a.m....

Is This Minnesota or Florida?

I’ve been in Miama and now Atlanta for business, watching the Minnesota recount from afar. And we’re not looking good. Bill O’Reilly’s show ran clips tonight of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie saying, when asked why the Coleman...

Hollywood Goes to War

Actor Audie Murphy was the most highly-decorated soldier in World War II, from which he later suffered insomnia, depression, and nightmares. Today some people want to use him as a propaganda symbol in support of current...

R&B singer Keyshia Cole finally having some fun (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - In just three years, R&B singer Keyshia Cole has scored two platinum albums, three No. 1 singles on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and a top-rated reality show on BET.

BRIO Books to Attend Miami Book Fair International

BRIO is heading south. The Minneapolis-based publisher is escaping cold Minneapolis temperatures and going to the 2008 Miami Book Fair International. The book fair is held November 9-16 at the Florida Center for the Literary...

What is the role of “Black” rock in the age of Obama?

If you look at the post-election electoral map, you see that 90% of the country voted for Obama. That's a multicultural, multi-generational coalition of voters that came together across many socioeconomic boundaries. Obama's...

Photo Release -- Sandra Evers-Manly Honored With Walter Bremond Pioneer of African American...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sandra Evers-Manly, Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) vice president of Corporate Responsibility and president of Northrop Grumman Foundation, was honored by the...