Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary  —  Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa …

Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62  —  This graphic requires version 9 or higher of the Adobe Flash Player.Get the latest Flash Player.  —  Writer Christopher Hitchens was a critic of personalities, politicians and religious figures.  —  The influential writer and cultural critic …

Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: In Memoriam  —  Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from, dare I say it, God.  He died today at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, after a punishing battle with esophageal cancer, the same disease that killed his father.

Christopher Hitchens dies; Vanity Fair writer was a religious skeptic, master of the contrarian essay  —  Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted provocateur who used his formidable learning, biting wit and muscular prose style to skewer what he considered high-placed hypocrites …

Congressional leaders reach spending deal to avoid government shutdown  —  Congressional negotiators signed off Thursday evening on a $1 trillion spending agreement for federal agencies, just 28 hours before a deadline that would have led to a government shutdown.

Shutdown averted: Deal reached on $1T omnibus package  —  House and Senate negotiators on Thursday night reached a tentative agreement on a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would avert a government shutdown, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee announced.