Ndiyo Tunaweza! That's Swahili for "Yes We Can," President Barack Obama's signature campaign line that became just as ubiquitous in his father's native Kenya as it did in the United States.
The government says consumers increased spending for a second straight month in February even though their incomes slipped due to continuing massive layoffs.
President Barack Obama wants to hear from the chief executives of some of the country's biggest banks as he caps a week in which he clarified his overall plan for stabilizing the financial system.
John Hope Franklin, a towering scholar and pioneer of African-American studies who wrote the seminal text on the black experience in the U.S. and worked on the landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed public school segregation, died Wednesday. He was 94.
Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he is committed to a civil rights division in the tradition of the Department of Justice during the civil rights movement.
Namibia's government has agreed that Namdeb, its diamond mining joint venture with De Beers, should halt production for up to four months because the global economic downturn has slashed demand, officials said Wednesday.
