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Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage - Added 2 minutes ago

The House and Senate reconvene Monday after back-to-back political conventions, both parties eager to use the three-week session to show voters why their candidates are the ones to fix the economy and lower energy...

Auto industry to press Congress for $50B in loans - Added 6 minutes ago

Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $50 billion in government loans this month that would pay to modernize plants and help struggling car makers build more fuel-efficient vehicles. With Congress returning this...

Rice: Not wise to end Cuban economic embargo now - Added 19 minutes ago

The Bush administration said Sunday it sees no wisdom now in ending an economic embargo against Cuba, a longtime demand the Havana government renewed as a way to speed aid after Hurricane Gustav swamped the island. A...

Rice presses African allies on terror cooperation - Added 1 hour ago

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday pressed U.S. allies in North Africa for greater cooperation in the face of terrorism and continued efforts at political change as she ended a visit to the region. The top...

Rice: US and Iraq have 'very open' relationship - Added 1 hour ago

Facing allegations the U.S. spied on its Iraqi allies, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday defended the relationship between the two governments as "very open and transparent." The top U.S. diplomat did not...

Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf - Added 1 hour ago

Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to...

Ike blasts Turks and Caicos, floods Haiti again - Added 1 hour ago

Ike ripped off roofs, sank boats and blocked the road for aid to reach a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba...

Bush comments on Sept 11 attacks, terror fight - Added 3 hours ago

Comments by President Bush on the Sept. 11 attacks and the fight against terrorism: "A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but...

Sept 11 brought US into age of terrorism, anxiety - Added 3 hours ago

!!-- pobj:WX205-0911011041 -->!!-- pobj:WX206-0914011230 -->!!-- pobj:WX208-0501031906 -->Dead or alive. President Bush said he didn't care how terrorism architect Osama bin Laden was brought to justice. "We'll smoke...

Algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitors - Added 5 hours ago

Green-colored polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo. Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after...

Hanna rolls into Connecticut with heavy rain - Added 6 hours ago

!!-- AUDIO:006,227 -->Tropical Storm Hanna rolled into Connecticut on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, wind gusts and oppressive humidity. The storm, which came ashore in the Carolinas on Saturday, is expected to continue...

High-resolution satellite launched in California - Added 8 hours ago

!!-- pobj:NY114-0906081454 -->!!-- pobj:CASMT102-0906061712 -->!!-- pobj:CASMT101-0906061712 -->A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has...

Wanted: Ride to Mojave Desert for wayward tortoise - Added 8 hours ago

!!-- pobj:WASPO103-0903082111 -->!!-- pobj:WASPO102-0903082109 -->!!-- pobj:SR0809031440239200-0903082106 -->Sadie the desert tortoise needs a ride to an adoptive home in the Mojave Desert _ the sooner the better. The...

Fla. murder trial nears for disgraced ex-FBI agent - Added 12 hours ago

John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of his Cadillac at Miami's airport. The admitted shooter says he never met...

Today in History - Sept. 7 - Added 12 hours ago

Today is Sunday, Sept. 7, the 251st day of 2008. There are 115 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 7, 1907, the British liner RMS Lusitania set out from Liverpool, England, on its maiden...

SF Bay area officer, 2 others killed in gun fight - Added 13 hours ago

Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday. Martinez police and Contra...

Illinois kindergarten golfer has ace - Added 13 hours ago

Look out Tiger Woods, 5-year-old Drew Gray's got game. The kindergartner had a hole-in-one _ though it doesn't count because it was on par-3 course _ last week on the 75-yard, fifth hole at Yorktown Golf Club. The shot...

Robert Novak column describes cancer treatment - Added 15 hours ago

Since being diagnosed with brain cancer, Robert Novak has lost partial vision and undergone surgery to remove a tumor, the conservative political commentator wrote in a column published Saturday. In a piece entitled...

40 years after capture, USS Pueblo crew reunites - Added 17 hours ago

Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968. Instead, he and his shipmates became pawns in a Cold War sideshow when North Korea captured the Navy spy ship and...

Crash with suspect's SUV kills Philly officer - Added 18 hours ago

A 16-year-old in a stolen vehicle smashed into a police car during a chase, killing one of two officers in the cruiser, authorities said Saturday. Andre Butler was charged Saturday with third-degree murder and...

House explosion kills 2 in Chicago suburb - Added 18 hours ago

An explosion destroyed a house early Saturday and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home were found in the wreckage, authorities said. Seven other homes were destroyed. The cause of the explosion was...

Rice: `Time isn't right for the Russia agreement' - Added 19 hours ago

Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday. Her comment increased speculation that...

Ex-mayor of Mo. town shot in city hall attack dies - Added 20 hours ago

The former mayor of the St. Louis suburb who was badly wounded when a gunman opened fire at a February city council meeting has died of complications connected to his injuries. Mary Jo Wich, a spokeswoman for the St....

Rice urges closer ties with North African allies - Added 20 hours ago

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged closer coordination with North African allies on fighting terrorism and said Saturday the U.S. would work to return Guantanamo detainees to their home countries "as soon we...

Fla. murder trial nears for disgraced ex-FBI agent - Added 21 hours ago

John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of his Cadillac at Miami's airport. The admitted shooter says he never met...

FBI's civil rights initiative: no trials yet - Added 21 hours ago

Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations. ...

Ex-NJ politician headed to trial on fraud charges - Added 21 hours ago

A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a way to boost his income and increase his pension...

Bush: Congress should allow more offshore drilling - Added 21 hours ago

!!-- AUDIO:136,135,134,133,132 -->President Bush says if Congress doesn't permit offshore drilling to increase U.S. oil supplies and possibly ease gasoline prices, lawmakers should not expect voters to support them in...

Hurricane Ike churns west, triggers fears - Added 21 hours ago

For those who live in its path, hurricane season stirs up anxiety even before devastating winds and rains hit land. And for Suzanne Bonner, that means the days of blissfully lying in bed and listening to the rain no...

7 years on, Sept. 11 is so far and yet so close - Added 21 hours ago

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Rice presses Congress to OK India nuclear deal - Added 22 hours ago

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Congress to approve a nuclear deal with India after the agreement was endorsed Saturday by nations that supply nuclear material and technology. "I certainly hope we can get...

Don't take it off _ end near for NYC smut palace - Added 22 hours ago

The end may be near for Scores, the legendary strip club that has attracted celebrities while withstanding Mafia infiltration, FBI raids and ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's crusade against smut. After 17 years of notoriety,...

Life goes on but fears remain at shooting campus - Added 22 hours ago

Her first week of classes at Northern Illinois University made it clear to freshman Miraynda Castro that she wasn't beginning her college career at just any campus. Her philosophy teacher asked for a show of hands: Did...

Police: Mom, 2 teen girls kill man in $15 robbery - Added 22 hours ago

Two teenage girls are accused of stabbing a 75-year-old man to death in a robbery that netted them just $15, and police say the mother of one of the teens helped put them up to it. Dannette R. Gillespie, 38, gave...

Kentucky works to keep embattled institution open - Added 23 hours ago

Physically, Deron Dickerson was a 38-year-old man. Mentally, he was a toddler who needed constant supervision. Left alone in a bathtub, Dickerson drowned three years ago in Kentucky's largest institution for mentally...

4th Pa. teen charged in killing of immigrant - Added 1 day ago

Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant. Schuylkill County prosecutors charged the teen in juvenile court Friday with aggravated assault, ethnic...

Police: Bomb scare on train in NJ was hoax - Added 1 day ago

Authorities in New Jersey say a bomb scare involving a package on a freight train appears to have been a hoax. Police in the town of North Bergen say dozens of officers searched through more than 1,000 packages taken...

Cheney says Russia's actions an 'affront' - Added 1 day ago

Vice President Dick Cheney says Russia's actions in the conflict with Georgia are an "affront to civilized standards." Cheney says Russia has given "no satisfactory justification" for invading Georgia last month. He...

Rice: `Good way forward' with new Pakistan leader - Added 1 day ago

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan's election of a new president Saturday was a positive sign for the civilian government of the U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism. Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of...

2nd trial starting for infamous Texas KFC murders - Added 1 day ago

When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed the previous year. But prosecutors contend the Tyler man was involved in a far more...

Yellowstone RV park full despite fuel costs - Added 1 day ago

In the heart of the park here on a recent warm day, all 358 spaces at the Fishing Bridge Recreational Vehicle Park were jammed with RVs and camping equipment. Despite high fuel prices and a sputtering economy that have...

Wash. rampage suspect in court: 'I kill for God' - Added 1 day ago

"I kill for God. I listen to God," a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree murder and four of first-degree assault were filed against him. ...

White House: Bush wasn't detached from war review - Added 1 day ago

The White House on Friday disputed an assertion in a new book by Bob Woodward that President Bush was slow to react to escalating attacks in Iraq, forcefully arguing that Bush's military buildup was responsible for a...

Minor earthquake rattles San Francisco Bay area - Added 1 day ago

A minor earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay area Friday night. The U.S. Geological Survey's preliminary report put the quake at a 4.0-magnitude. The temblor's epicenter was near Alamo, Calif., about 28 miles east...

UC Berkeley begins felling disputed trees - Added 1 day ago

The University of California, Berkeley has begun cutting down trees at the center of a dispute over its plans to clear the area to make way for a new sports center. Protesters sitting in a nearby redwood tree on Friday...

French pop artist Alain Jacquet dies at 69 - Added 1 day ago

Alain Jacquet, a French pop artist known for his reinterpretations of famous paintings, has died, the French Embassy said. Jacquet, who lived in New York and Paris, died of cancer Thursday at NewYork-Presbyterian...

Minor earthquake rattles San Francisco Bay area - Added 1 day ago

A minor earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay area Friday night. The U.S. Geological Survey's preliminary report put the quake at a 4.0-magnitude. The temblor's epicenter was near Alamo, Calif., about 28 miles east...

Today in History - Sept. 6 - Added 1 day ago

Today is Saturday, Sept. 6, the 250th day of 2008. There are 116 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon...

New York Fashion Week starts with a message: Relax - Added 1 day ago

The glamorous set had a message for economic worrywarts as New York Fashion Week kicked off Friday: Chill out. A loose, beachy vibe infused the first collections for spring 2009, drawing inspiration from fantasies of...

Bush tours Gettysburg battleground site - Added 1 day ago

President Bush brushed up on his Civil War history Friday, touring the battleground of Gettysburg, the site of one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War. Normally for a $55 fee, visitors to the Gettysburg National...