Associated Press - November 8, 2008 4:45 PM ET HOUSTON (AP) - The U.S. State Department has ordered a dozen officials at the Venezuelan consulate in Houston to leave the country after the South...

Associated Press - November 8, 2008 1:55 PM ET TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) - Six members of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries have been arrested for distributing handbills on vehicles in Texarkana,...

Associated Press - November 8, 2008 4:55 PM ET BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) - A federal jury has awarded $150,000 to a female police officer who sued the Beaumont police department for gender...

Associated Press - November 8, 2008 4:55 PM ET DALLAS (AP) - Dallas Councilman Dwaine Caraway is on a mission: He wants those who wear low-hanging, baggy pants to pull them up.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 7 -- At least 12 people were killed Friday when two missiles slammed into a village in northwestern Pakistan in a suspected U.S. airstrike near the border with Afghanistan, according to a Pakistani intelligence official.

President-elect Barack Obama stepped carefully yesterday when he was asked about the unusual letter of congratulations that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent him -- the first time an Iranian leader has congratulated the victor of a U.S. presidential election since

When Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. needed someone to design one of the largest government interventions in the U.S. economy, he turned to one of his staff's most ardent disciples of free-market principles.

GOMA, Congo, Nov. 7 -- Angolan troops have joined Congolese soldiers battling rebels near the city of Goma, U.N. officials in the region reported Friday, raising fears that the conflict would spread as African leaders struggled to find a way

The U.S. Senate race in Minnesota is nowhere close to being decided, state officials said yesterday.

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has gone back to court to compel tens of thousands of state voters to reverify their registrations.

BERLIN, Nov. 7 -- Russia sent President-elect Barack Obama a message this week when it threatened to "neutralize" the proposed U.S. missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. But analysts said the tough talk from Moscow had another aim as well:

As the time grew nearer for Barack Obama's first news conference as president-elect yesterday, aides announced that the start would be delayed by 10 to 15 minutes. Then they announced a five-minute delay. Then another. Finally, the next president finally

TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 7 -- Thousands of flag-waving protesters brought traffic in Georgia's capital to a standstill Friday in the first major protest against President Mikheil Saakashvili since the country's war with Russia in August.

Mexico detained a former senior police official Friday as it investigates alleged high-level corruption within security forces battling powerful drug cartels.

ATLANTA -- A man who went on a courthouse shooting spree during his 2005 rape trial, killing a judge and three other people, was convicted of murder Friday.

The Army will investigate a disproportionate cluster of suicides among recruiters in an East Texas battalion, Army Secretary Pete Geren said. Seventeen Army recruiters have committed suicide nationwide since 2001, four of them from the Houston Recruiting Battalion.

· A Nov. 7 Style review of a Joan Baez concert incorrectly described the March on Washington as occurring 35 years ago. It was in 1963.

The FBI's main electronic system that tracks terrorist threats and suspicious incidents amounts to a "significant improvement" over earlier computer packages, but the bureau could do more to improve its accuracy, the Justice Department inspector general said yesterday.

SHIJIAZHUANG, China -- Xue Jianzhong never posted a sign on his ground-floor shop, but somehow everyone knew what he was selling. Customers from all over this dairy farming region in the northeastern province of Hebei flocked to Xue's dusty street