Dec 17, 2006 ... This staggeringly beautiful country, perhaps best known to most Americans from the Iran-contra scandal, is emerging as an idyllic vacation ...
AFP - US congressional leaders, stunned by the depth of the meltdown, considered quick legislative action Saturday on a huge White House-proposed bailout for the financial sector but demanded help for workers and reeling Wall Street firms.
(Wednesday, September 24th) Final Score: Texas 14, Oakland 4 Arlington, TX (Sports Network) - Hank Blalock went 2-for-4 with a three-run home run and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers crushed th...
(AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has given a last-minute reprieve to a Georgia man less than two hours before he was to be executed for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer.Supporters of 39-year-...
(CBS) Every state now has a "safe haven" law allowing parents who can't care for a newborn to drop him or her off at a "safe haven," such as a hospital, firehouse or police station.But, reports Early ...
The United States on Tuesday slapped sanctions on members of Colombia's main rebel group who represent the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 11 foreign countries, including Mexico and Canada.
President George W. Bush told a dinner honoring American Muslims that his administration has partnered with those practicing Islam around the world to promote tolerance and spread freedom to millions.
In a Sept. 20 story about a naturalization ceremony, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a quote from a new U.S. citizen. Ivonne Artica, not Kelly Chase, said: "I've never been moved to vote before, but this is historic, it's huge." Artica added that Democrat Barack Obama is her candidate.
Prospects improved that John McCain and Barack Obama would hold their first presidential debate on Friday as Congress made progress toward an agreement with the Bush administration on a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry.
AP - Hurricane Ike roared down Cuba's spine Monday and toward the island's densely populated capital of fragile historic buildings after ravaging homes, forcing 1.2 million people to evacuate and killing at least four. U.S. residents from Florida to Texas braced for Ike's next wallop.
Reuters - Cuba, in a letter sent earlier this
month, conditionally accepted the resumption of formal
political dialogue with the European Union, as offered by the
European bloc when it lifted diplomatic sanctions against the
island two months ago.
Norway will give Brazil $1 billion by 2015 to preserve the Amazon rain forest, as long as it reduces deforestation, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON: Democrat Barack Obama has opened a nine-point lead over Republican John McCain in the US presidential race amid turmoil in the financial system and growing pessimism about the economy, ...
Paris - After opening sharply higher in the wake of the US Federal Reserve's bail-out of insurance giant AIG, French shares were pulled into the red on Wednesday by a weak Wall Street, ending the session at a low for the year. The Paris Bourse's benc...
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