Speaking from the White House, the President said the Federal Reserve's $85 billion bailout of AIG, the nation's top insurer, and the Security and Exchange Commission's issuance of new rules on short selling to protect investors were "necessary and important"actions

They want us to forget the insults we've put up with, the intolerance," a narrator says in the ad while a picture of Limbaugh and his controversial comment, "Mexicans are stupid and unqualified" are shown.

Reid told Congressional Quarterly that he would keep the chamber in pro forma session after Sept. 26, when lawmakers are supposed to head back to their districts to campaign ahead of the general election in November.

Officials said a rocket motor exploded at about 3:15 Wednesday, but authorities don't know what caused the accident.

The truth is, I don't know what the bailout is yet," Biden said in a campaign stop in Mansfield, Ohio on Wednesday. "It looks like they're lending 'em a little bit of money. I don't know what they've done. I

The Democrat leads Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), 49-47 percent, making the the race a virtual tie. Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney and independent Ralph Nader have a combined support of 6 percent.

In an interview to air at Thursday night, Palin tells FOX's Sean Hannity, "It was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use because the fundamentals, as he was having to explain afterwards, he means our

On Wednesday, nearly 900,000 homes and businesses in Ohio were still without power, although that was an improvement over the more than 2.6 million who lacked power after the storm Sunday.

With only 45 days to go before election day, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) are deadlocked with 48 percent each. Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney and independent Ralph Nader have a combined support of

Secretary Paulson, according to CNBC, said he is considering the creation of an entity that would acquire the mortgage debt that has burdened financial institutions. A similar move was made when the government created the Resolution Trust Corp. during the

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) yesterday broke a years-long public silence about the anthrax-mailing case to cast doubt on the FBI's assertion that a bioweapons researcher acted as the lone culprit in the deadly attacks.

Police commissioner Hussein Ali on Wednesday defended the force against accusations that it bungled investigation on terror suspects.

The family of 34 year-old Ebenezer Aisien, who was shot dead last Monday by a mobile Police man at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega station Benin City, declared yesterday, that the Edo State Police Command lied to the

The Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA) yesterday, Wednesday, 17 September 2008, released its first 'Hall of Shame' report at iWeek 2008. Naming some of the country's top spammers, the 'Hall of Shame' forms part of ISPA's broader

Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, workers at the Delta Ports, Warri are set for a show down with security operatives using the port as their base for beating up two of the Ports security staff on duty and battering other staff

Double tragedy struck in the Ausspannplatz area in the capital yesterday when well-known Namibian kwaito musician Titus Antonius, popularly known as Yt Dewet (Whitey), reportedly shot and killed a woman believed to be his ex-girlfriend before turning the gun on

Acting High Court Judge Annel Silungwe yesterday reserved judgment on an application from the defence lawyers in the Avid Investment Corporation fraud case that the prosecution should provide further particulars, failure of which some charges should be quashed.

Gaborone Village Magistrate Lot Moroka has set October 30 and November 7 as new dates for the continuation of the case in which Debswana employee, Mmabatho Sekgoma, is accused of abducting a seven-year old boy without the consent of his

Police in Lusaka have shot dead six suspected notorious criminals believed to have been behind a spate of robberies in the capital.

Three middle-aged men who attempted to rob Trojan Security of money belonging to Shoprite at Francistown's Nswazwi Mall were shot and killed in a shootout that spilled over to Matsiloje to where the robbers attempted to escape.