A remembrance of Steinbrenner’s great Yankee teams of the late 1970s in a city that was doubting its own greatness.
More on the final breakthrough on financial reform.
TPM Reader CB checks in from Alabama to take issue with my referring to the Republicans in today’s gubernatorial runoff as two of the biggest goofs you could imagine: Read More
President Obama nominates former Clinton OMB Director Jacob Lew to return to his old post, replacing Peter Orszag.
Tom Emmer, the presumptive GOP nominee for governor of Minnesota, does a little damage control after declaring some waiters are overpaid — by pulling a shift waiting tables.
In the latest poll of the California governor’s race, Meg Whitman is leading Jerry Brown 46-39.
Second Circuit strikes down FCC’s indecency rules. Bono now free to say f*** on the air.
We’ve added a couple of dozen more photos to the George Steinbrenner slideshow, and I’m struck anew by what a larger-than-life figure he became, transcending sport to earn a spot in that strange pantheon: late 20th century pop culture celebrity:
Attorney General Eric Holder and Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, are in New Orleans at this hour announcing new indictments of New Orleans police officers in the Danziger Bridge shooting and alleged coverup.
Here’s our interview with Perez from a few months ago.
You can read the DOJ press release on the new indictments here.
Rachel Slajda has the rundown on the new charges.