Obama Unveils All His Boring Cabinet Picks
The brother of Iraq's most famous shoe-throwing journalist says the journalist was beaten in custody. [ BBC News ]
European bank HSBC exposed one billion of its precious hot dollars to notorious ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. [ MarketWatch ]
Police found explosives in a Paris department store after they were tipped off by the Agence France-Presse. It's a media fairy tale! [ New York Times ]
Man! She got a cover story onTimeand everything, and yet DC's education chancellor, Michelle Rhee, got passed over for Secretary of Education. The post will go to Barack Obama's Chicago crony Arne Duncan instead. [ Washington Post ]
Oh noes, the Detroit bailout is on hold while President Bush "looks at the data." [ Detroit Free Press ]
Moderate centrist Coloradan Senator Ken Salazar will be the Secretary of the Interior, so quit your whining, Hispanics, you got another one. [ Los Angeles Times ]