Rep. Lantos to retire due to cancer
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Rep. Tom Lantos, a California Democrat and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced on Wednesday that he will not seek re-election this year because he has cancer of the esophagus.
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell was scheduled to undergo surgery Monday to remove one of her breasts after cancer was discovered during a routine mammogram, the governor&#39;s office said.
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When Gov. George E. Pataki left office last January, he was the dominant Republican politician in New York. Today the former governor is virtually absent from the political scene.
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Rep. Tom Lantos, who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and is the only Holocaust survivor elected to the Congress, on Wednesday said he has been diagnosed with cancer and will not seek re-election in November.
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Jeff Raikes, the president of Microsoft's Business Division, plans to retire in September, the company said on Thursday.
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The actor pulled out of a film, and may be contemplating retirement.
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Sen. Trent Lott retired from Congress late Tuesday with characteristic flair, making public with 16 minutes' notice that he would relinquish his seat when the Senate closed for business.
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Mr. Lantos was chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress.
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Google Inc said on Tuesday finance chief George Reyes plans to retire, ending a bumpy five-year ride for an executive charged with trying to manage ferocious growth while upholding a policy of refusing to give financial forecasts.
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert will resign his congressional seat rather than serve out the rest of his term, two GOP congressional sources told CNN.
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At his home in East Los Angeles, Francisco Castaneda of El Salvador faces a grim truth: His cancer is spreading, from his groin to his lymph nodes and toward his stomach, a progression that could soon end his life.
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An announcement broadcast by state-run radio and television said the 65-year-old general had retired for &quot;health reasons.&quot;.
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White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who has been battling cancer, plans to step down on September 14 and he will be replaced by his deputy, Dana Perino, a U.S. official said.
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The chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department said on Friday he would retire next month, after a furor over a race discrimination suit brought by a black firefighter who found dog food in his spaghetti at work.
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The Florida representative and former House Intelligence Committee chairman will take over from George Tenet. Mr Goss was a spy for more than 10 years before entering Congress.
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Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, a key voice on foreign affairs, has died aged 80, his spokeswoman says.
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Nicholas Burns, a key U.S. policymaker on Iran and India and the number three U.S. diplomat, has decided to retire for personal reasons, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday.