Dems prepare slew of oversight hearings

Cheney's Halliburton Stock Options Rose 3,281 Percent Last Year, Senator Finds

And this is the kind of thing we need Congress shining its light on.

Chavez pushes closer to socialism

Chavez said he would soon ask the National Assembly, which is solidly controlled by his allies, to approve a law giving him powers to approve such changes by decree and without further approval.

Ah, you just gotta love wannabe totalitarians. Nice ad hominem:

Chavez lashed out at Insulza for questioning his government's decision not to renew the license of an opposition- aligned TV station.

"Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot," Chavez said. He used a vulgar Spanish term that translates roughly as idiot. "The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the Organization of American States for daring to play that role."

Bystander Pulls Off Daring Subway Rescue

A quick-thinking commuter saved a teenager who apparently suffered a seizure and fell onto subway tracks in Upper Manhattan, by jumping onto the tracks himself and pushing them both between the rails, beneath the oncoming train.