President-elect Barack Obama will formally announce who his top economic advisors will be at a news conference set for noon Eastern time today. Timothy Geithner [[ GIHT-ner ]], who is president of the New York Federal Reserve, is expected to be named Treasury Secretary. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers the expected choice for director of the White House National Economic Council.
There's some good news for holiday travelers this year. "USA Today" says information from the FlightStats data firm indicates flight delays are down this fall due in part to airlines cutting the number of scheduled flights. From September 1st through November 17th, flights arrived more than 15 minutes late 17-percent of the time compared with 21-percent for the same period a year ago.
Eryn Bloomfield, the mother of an eight-year-old murder suspect in Arizona, told ABC's "Good Morning America" today that her son is a normal, outgoing boy. Police in rural St. Johns claim he fatally shot his father, 29-year-old Vincent Romero, and another man who lived in their home on November 5th. Bloomfield is the boy's birth mother and lives in Mississippi.
A security guard at the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre in Hollywood fatally shot a man who was wielding a sword Sunday. The "Los Angeles Times" reports the guard claims he was acting in self-defense and was detained by investigators. Scientology is a belief system created in 1952 by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are still trying to get the new wastewater treatment system working properly. It was just delivered to the station by the Space Shuttle Endeavour. They have been working to figure out how to fix the device that transforms urine into drinking water.
It was 45 years ago today when JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas. The whole event unfolded on national television as Oswald was being transferred from one Dallas jail to another. It happened just two days after Oswald fatally shot President John F. Kennedy.