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SAN FRANCISCO — When Proposition K was added to Tuesday’s ballot, many people likely snickered at the possibility that San Francisco might take its place alongside such prostitute-friend...
Australian Paralympic wheelchair champion Kurt Fearnley has won his third straight New York Marathon.Fearnley crossed the finish line in a time of one hour 44 minutes 51 seconds, more than a minute ah...
Federal authorities have compromised the rights and safety of some unaccompanied illegal immigrant children they have detained, and inadequate government guidelines are partly to blame, according to a Texas-based research group.
Possible Republican presidential candidates already are making Iowa a winter destination four years before the leadoff caucuses, but some wonder if the state Republican Party's drift to the right could hurt its influence in choosing a nominee capable of winning back the White House.
With only 10 days before the Nov. 4 election day, U.S. Democrats are pushing forward with party's unity by adding former President Bill Clinton's popularity to its presidential candidate Barack Obama'...
Editor's note: This article by Orson Scott Card, a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, is published here with the permission of The Rhinoceros Times of Greensboro North Carolina where it first appeare...
Naturalist Henry David Thoreau might well be surprised that while much of the land around Walden Pond remains undeveloped, many of the plants he knew so well are gone, probably a result of climate change.
Reuters - Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda said on Monday he would fight African peacekeepers if they backed government troops against him, as more regional states joined efforts to try to end the conflict.
The head of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops says Catholic lawmakers should follow their faith when setting public policy under a new presidential administration.
Rome - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in talks Tuesday with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, relaunched his proposal to expand the Group of Eight (G8) to include emerging nations from Africa, Latin America and Asia. To date, m...
News ) - Firefighters struggled to get control of a raging wildfire Friday that destroyed more than 100 homes and injured 13 people in this Mediterranean-style coastal town that has been home to celeb...
Authorities in the U.S. state of California have ordered thousands of people to evacuate their homes Saturday, as wildfires roar through residential areas in the south of the state.
California voters have approved a constitutional amendment that outlaws same-sex marriage, the most momentous of the 153 ballot measures at stake across the United States.
Voters have approved a ballot measure making Washington the nation's second state to allow terminally ill people the option of medically assisted suicide.
The bilateral trade between China and the Latin American region grew substantially during the first three quarters, up 52 percent to reach 111.5 billion U.S. dollars, said China's Ministry of Commerce...
ANCI ) announced today that it will hold a conference call on November 13, 2008 to discuss financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2008. David S. Boone, Chief Exe...
0 posts Trust for America's Health (TFAH) released a new report, Germs Go Global: Why Emerging Infectious Diseases Are a Threat to America; which finds that at least 170,000 Americans die annually ...