Salon: News & Politics

State Farm: we warned government on Toyota in 2007

Associated Press — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:30:00 PST

Insurance company knew about problems with unexpected acceleration

Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program

NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:13:00 PST

Despite objections of U.S. and its allies, Iran begins enriching uranium to high levels

Peyton Manning, great enough to fail

Ethan Sherwood Strauss — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:08:00 PST

The quarterback is just as spectacular as he was before his unlikely loss to the Saints

Report: Toyota plans to recall 300,000 Priuses

KELLY OLSEN, Associated Press — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:28:00 PST

Brake problems in top-selling gas-electric hybrid may lead to worldwide recall

"I will not back down"

Hans Hoyng and Christoph Schult — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:09:00 PST

In an interview, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discusses peace talks with Israel, disappointment with Obama

NY Gov. Paterson holds meeting on his future

MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:40:00 PST

Rumors of a major scandal swirl around unpopular governor

Iran's leader vows to thwart protests

NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:58:00 PST

Khamenei to opposition: We will punch you in the mouth!

Uncertainty in search after deadly Conn. blast

PAT EATON-ROBB and JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:48:00 PST

The damaged power plant remains too unsafe for crews to look for further victims

New Orleans celebrates Super Bowl win

KEVIN McGILL and STACEY PLAISANCE, Associated Press — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:02:00 PST

Locals and Carnival crowds sweep into the streets

In Nashville, tea partiers try to rebrew

Kyle Swenson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:30:00 PST

Organizers hoped to bring a group known for costumes and often crude hyperbole into the mainstream. Did it work?

The Week in Pictures

Salon Art Staff — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:01:00 PST

Punxsutawney Phil, Scandal in South Africa, Obama immortalized in Indonesia, and more

This Week in Crazy: AIG

Mike Madden — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:01:00 PST

$100 million in bonuses? Sure, that sounds about right for fat cats who helped sink the global economy

Slide show: Super symbol

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:06:00 PST

The actual game is in Miami's Sun Life Stadium, but New Orleans' emotional energy flows into another venue

Gov't buys $2.5M in Super Bowl ads to boost census

HOPE YEN, Associated Press — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:31:52 PST

Ed Bagley Jr. to appear in ad spots promoting 2010 census

Danish forces free ship captured by pirates

KATHARINE HOURELD, Associated Press — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:19:51 PST

Special forces intervened while hijacking was in progress

Toyota chief apologizes for global recalls

YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:26:00 PST

An apology, but no new recall

Who dat gonna replace Ray Nagin?

Vincent Rossmeier — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:20:00 PST

An ecstatic, resurgent New Orleans will pick a new mayor the same weekend as the Saints' first Super Bowl

Obama aunt arrives for her 2nd asylum hearing

Associated Press — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:11:10 PST

After being rejected for asylum in 2004, the president's Kenyan-born aunt attends a second hearing in Boston

L.A. mayor signs medical marijuana shop law

Associated Press — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:26:00 PST

New rules limit the city to 70 dispensaries, regulates where they can locate

France denies citizenship to man with veiled wife

JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:27:00 PST

With an outright ban under consideration, France refuses citizenship to man who forced wife to wear a veil

House Republican asks for probe of Navy whistle-blower's firing

Mark Benjamin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:04:00 PST

Walter Jones wants to know why a Camp Lejeune psychiatrist was fired -- and why his personnel records were doctored

Attorney general to charge Christmas day bomber

PETE YOST, Associated Press — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:34:00 PST

Ben Wetmore and his right-wing merry pranksters

Jenn Kepka — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:25:00 PST

James O'Keefe's New Orleans host ran a right-wing-funded paper at my college, before his bigger conservative stunts

Will the real Meg Whitman please stand up?

Lisa Stander Horel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:04:00 PST

Jerry Brown needs to announce his candidacy while the Republican hopeful remains mired in ugly rumors

A new capital city for Haiti

Clemens H�ges — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:04:00 PST

The government, and population, can't stay in a place as geologically unstable as Port-au-Prince, says seismologist

Iran sends rocket with animal menagerie into space

ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:45:00 PST

Iran announces research rocket carried mouse, two turtles and worms

Genocide charge possible for Sudan's al-Bashir

MIKE CORDER, Associated Press — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:17:00 PST

International Criminal Court ruling that al-Bashir can't be charged with genocide overturned on appeal

James O'Keefe's race problem

Max Blumenthal — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:04:00 PST

A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment

3 US soldiers die in blast near Pakistan school

SHERIN ZADA and MUNIR AHMAD, Associated Press — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:29:00 PST

Roadside bomb kills 3 U.S. soldiers and flattens school in northwest Pakistan

Pay czar: AIG bonuses are 'outrageous' but legal

Associated Press — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:18:00 PST

Payments stem from contracts made years ago