ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Republicans hurried to turn the opening day of their national convention into a fundraising drive for hurricane victims Monday, ...
Read More »TOKYO (AP) - Japan's unpopular prime minister abruptly resigned Monday after a yearlong struggle with a deadlocked parliament, leaving the weakened ruling ...
Read More »President Bush, eager to show his administration learned the tragic lessons of Hurricane Katrina, flew to Texas for briefings on Hurricane Gustav as it ...
Read More »The tiny school district of Harrold, Texas may be the first in the nation to allow teachers to carry weapons, a policy administrators say was needed because ...
Read More »SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Barack Obama introduced Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware on Saturday as "a leader ready to step in and be president." The newly named ...
Read More »SAN DIEGO (AP) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man as agents clashed with a group of rock-throwing assailants, marking the latest confrontation ...
Read More »SIERRA MADRE, Calif. (AP) - Crews overcame a threatening flare-up during the night and worked Monday to halt a wildfire northeast of Los Angeles that ...
Read More »HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam is ending a child adoption agreement with the United States after being accused of allowing baby-selling and corruption, ...
Read More »Police say an Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cell for 24 years while fathering seven children with her. One child ...
Read More »R. Caputo is drafting legislation to prohibit those under 18 from buying super-caffeinated energy drinks and supplements. The head of Brazil's oil agency ...
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) - On the day his firefighter son was lost, killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Deputy Fire Chief James Riches also lost some of his ...
Read More »JERUSALEM (AP) - With his Mideast shuttle winding down Monday, Jimmy Carter picked up the phone in Jerusalem and called the Hamas boss in Damascus one ...
Read More »ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Most families of victims of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech have agreed to an $11 million state settlement that will compensate ...
Read More »MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) - The former president of a fraternity at Rider University has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a pledge who drank himself ...
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) - J.K. Rowling said Monday that her efforts to halt a publisher's "Harry Potter" lexicon have been crushing her creativity. Rowling said ...
Read More »ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - Authorities who removed 219 women and children from a polygamist compound were struggling Sunday to determine whether they had ...
Read More »A German court rejected a restaurant employee's claim for monetary compensation after an irate customer threw a half eaten kabob at her while calling ...
Read More »SOCHI, Russia (AP) - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing ...
Read More »TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - State legislators are questioning Gov. Jon S. Corzine's plan to offer early retirement incentives to state workers to try to save ...
Read More »Sweden's famed Absolut vodka will become absolutely French - in ownership at least - following a successful $8.34 billion bid from Pernod Ricard - a spirits ...
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