WASHINGTON -- When politics is your father's business and your birthday falls on the 4th of July, your special day is almost always upstaged by parades, picnics and Americana that any ambitious politician must participate in with enthusiasm. So it has ...Read More
The men allegedly blew up an ATM cash machine to remove it from a wall in the town of Driel, south west of Arnhem, on Friday night. Officers chased their car, which then overturned on the A12 motorway, near Utrecht, and ...Read More
The bark of a 21-gun salute and a mournful "Taps" puncutated the silence today as several thousand soldiers, family members and survivors gave an emotional farewell to the 13 victims of the Fort Hood massacre.
The service, which included President Obama ...Read More
NEW ORLEANS — Fairies danced with evil clowns, rock stars roiled seas of fans and zombies gathered en masse at the music-festival-slash-freak-show that became the Voodoo Art and Music Festival this Halloween weekend.
Singer Perry Farrell of headlining group Jane's Addiction ...Read More
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co.’s decision to put a newassembly line for the 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina, insteadof its historic Seattle hub, doubles its bets on a global supplystrategy that is more than two years late delivering the ...Read More
NEW YORK - Patrick Swayze's widow has told a crowd near Los Angeles that the loss of her husband of 34 years has left her with sadness "on a cellular level."
Lisa Niemi, making her first public comments since Swayze's death ...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - Patrick Swayze's widow has told a crowd near Los Angeles that the loss of her husband of 34 years has left her with sadness "on a cellular level."
Lisa Niemi, making her first public comments since Swayze's ...Read More
NORFOLK, Va. -President Barack Obama urged Virginians Tuesday to elect a Democrat as governor next week, but party officials braced for a defeat that could take some sheen off Obama's first year in office. Last fall, Obama became the first Democratic ...Read More
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia jury returned a sealed punitive-damages verdict Monday against drugmaker Wyeth Pharmaceuticals after finding a link between a woman's breast cancer and the hormone-replacement drug she took. Connie Barton's case is one of a handful of Prempro ...Read More
Pregnant women and parents with drowsy young children began pouring into the Fairfax County government center for swine flu vaccinations at 9:12 a.m., the first bit of movement in a line of several thousand people that circled the building, angled ...Read More
FORT COLLINS. Colo. - A family's runaway experimental balloon aircraft crash-landed after floating away from home, but there was no sign of a 6-year-old boy authorities thought had been inside. The bizarre scene played out live on television. The balloon rotated ...Read More
Now that the speculation on an Apple tablet has died down (with no tablet yet launched), the latest rumor on the mill has the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker developing a software upgrade that would add FM functionality to its smartphone ...Read More
President Obama, the third sitting American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was selected from a so-called "short list" of 5 to 20 finalist candidates. The Norwegian Nobel Committee's deadline for nominations was February 1, just 11 days after Obama's ...Read More
It's a Silicon Valley-based mission intended to be cheap, fast and spectacular — a 1,300-pound spacecraft crashing into the moon in the hope of detecting water that might someday help astronauts return there. Hours before scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center ...Read More
DETROIT -- Scuffles erupted as several thousand Detroit residents jockeyed, pushed and shoved Wednesday to get free money being offered to only 3,500 of the city's recently or soon to be homeless.
Several received medical treatment for fainting or exhaustion while ...Read More
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Microsoft has taken the extraordinary step of blocking all access to thousands of Hotmail accounts that were compromised as a result of massive Internet scam."Several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers' credentials were exposed on a third-party site," as a result of the ...Read More
WRIGHTWOOD, Calif.—Firefighters made progress Monday against a wildfire near a Southern California mountain town as weather turned calm and cool. Evacuation orders remained in effect for several thousand residents of the Wrightwood area but there was little flame visible in ...Read More
CHICAGO — A huge sign hung on an office building across from the downtown civic rally in Daley Plaza Friday morning, showing the Chicago 2016 logo, a woman weightlifter and the word "IMAGINE" in capital letters. Imagine, indeed. The still-gathering crowd ...Read More
CHICAGO -- As the shock of losing their highly touted Olympic bid settled in, Chicagoans wrestled with what the loss could mean for the city's image, political landscape, economy and favorite son in the White House. A huge gasp rose from ...Read More
America, meet Alan Grayson. To the vast majority of Americans, Rep. Alan Grayson (D) of Florida is the representative who told members of Congress late Tuesday night that the Republicans’ health care plan was for sick Americans to die quickly. Accompanied by ...Read More
