Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast Saturday...

A man whose body was pushed from a moving car last week along Airport Way South had been strangled, according to the King County Medical Examiner's Office.

President Bush is skipping the Republican National Convention on Monday and will travel instead to Texas to meet with emergency workers and evacuees as Hurricane Gustav bears down on the Gulf Coast.

Police in the Twin Cities have been busy looking for individuals who may be a threat to the Republican National Convention and have been executing search warrants where leaders of the group called the "RNC Welcoming Committee" are believed to

John McCain says Republicans will suspend most of the activities planned for Monday's opening of their national convention because of the threat of Hurricane Gustav.

Residents in counties ravaged by Hurricane Rita three years ago began leaving Saturday as Gustav strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm.

Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are traveling toMississippi to check on people getting prepared for Hurricane Gustav.

The Xcel Energy Center has been transformed, the delegates have arrived and after two years of planning the 2008 Republican National Convention is set to open tomorrow in St. Paul.

Authorities have searched several homes in Minneapolis and one in St. Paul Saturday ahead of the opening of the Republican National Convention.

John McCain says Republicans will suspendmost of the activities planned for Monday's opening of their national convention because of the threat of Hurricane Gustav.

President Bush will skip the RepublicanNational Convention on Monday and travel instead to Texas to meetwith emergency workers and people who evacuated the Gulf Coast asHurricane Gustav bore down.

Police arrested nine people taking partin an antiwar march at the Republican National Convention on Sundayafter they crossed a security fence into a restricted area nearXcel Energy Center.

At first glance, European social democracy appears to be in crisis. Gordon Brown's slump in the United Kingdom; the brutal shock of Spain's economic downturn; the difficulties of renewing the Socialist leadership in France; the collapse of the center-left coalition

A course about Al-Qaeda and the rise of international terrorism was one of the most popular last term at Harvard University's elite Kennedy School of Government. The international students crowding into the school's largest auditorium for the twice-weekly classes were

Jordan's move to thaw relations with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) following nine years of estrangement has raised eyebrows as to the timing and the motives behind this tactic. Internal and external factors dictated the rapprochement amid growing Jordanian

Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) called upon the Government of Lebanon to secure its borders and all entry points to prevent the entry into Lebanon without its consent of arms or related material. At the invitation of the Security Council,

Pakistani Taliban will continue attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, rejecting a government announcement it would halt military actions in the northwest, a Taliban spokesman said Sunday. Violence has surged in Pakistan in recent weeks with the military

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday apologized to Libya for damage inflicted by Italy during the colonial era and signed a $5-billion investment deal by way of compensation. Berlusconi made the apology during a visit to the Mediterranean city of

Former Prime Minister Omar Karami said in comments published Saturday that Egypt had plans to host inter-Lebanese talks "so as to pave the way for the national dialogue [chaired by President Michel Sleiman] at Baabda Palace." Karami made the remark