Confirmation hearings begin for Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor in Washington
Sen. Al Franken, D-MN, looks on as Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the start of her confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 13, 2009. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
Latest Headlines
UPI Almanac for Tuesday, May 21, 2013.
Satirist Stephen Colbert has begun a campaign to be named successor to Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who is retiring from the Senate to lead the Heritage Foundation.
Comedian and former "Saturday Night Live" writer Tom Davis died Thursday of throat and neck cancer at his home in Hudson, N.Y., his wife said. He was 59.
The latest news on today's hottest celebrities ...
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and Martin Short paid tribute to the late writer-director Nora Ephron at a memorial in New York's Alice Tulley Hall Monday.
UPI Almanac for Monday, May 21, 2012.
The Federal Election Commission needs to draw up stricter disclosure rules for donors to super PACs, a group of mostly Democratic U.S. senators said Tuesday.
A higher number of Jewish Republican congressional candidates in 2012 raises the possibility of a greater presence for the bloc on Capitol Hill, insiders said.
The German state of Bavaria and other European authorities said this week they have launched data privacy probes of the Connect IQ mobile phone software.
U.S. automobile navigation service OnStar said it would reverse direction concerning a policy of keeping track of former customers.
Quotes
United Press International
United Press International
United Press International
United Press International
United Press International
