Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to travel this month to Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba to strengthen regional ties, a tour that underscores a foreign-policy challenge close to home that awaits the Obama administration.
Firefighters from across the state braced for a new blast of hot evening winds as they fought to contain a fire that has destroyed up to 200 homes, many in a wealthy, celebrity-studded enclave, and charred at least 1,500 acres
Cem Ozdemir tells public audiences how he was wrapped in a towel in a Turkish bath when a German woman walked in naked. So he dropped his towel "to show that I was well integrated at home in Germany."
The vote gap between the two candidates in Minnesota's undecided Senate race — the longest, closest and costliest in state history — has narrowed since Election Day, but the hostility and vitriol surrounding the race seem to grow by the
Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, a stalwart of Alaska politics who was convicted of felony charges last month, fell further behind his Democratic rival on Friday, and most of the remaining ballots come from parts of the state that have favored
World economies are undergoing a dramatic shift in a crisis that many blame on the U.S.'s irresponsible lending and lack of regulation. President Bush has called a meeting of the 20 countries who control the world's economy to be held
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed on a draft of a security pactthat would allow American troops to stay in Iraq for three more years,after their U.N. mandate expires Dec. 31, a senior aide to PrimeMinister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday.
A cluster of strong thunderstorms swept across central North Carolinaearly Saturday and spawned tornadoes, killing two people. A child wasalso missing.
Gay rights supporters in the first state to allow same-sex couples toexchange wedding vows gathered Saturday to protest the California votethat banned gay marriage there and to urge supporters not to quit thefight for the right to wed.
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to get movingnext week on an economic rescue plan that would extend jobless benefitsamong other actions.
Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, a stalwart of Alaska politics who wasconvicted of felony charges last month, fell further behind hisDemocratic rival Friday, and most remaining ballots come from parts ofthe state that have favored the challenger.
Police have arrested an alleged gunman in California office slayings that left three dead in Santa Clara on Friday. Authorities previously reported they sought arecently laid-off worker who apparently sought retribution against hisformer employer and opened fire with a handgun.
The Supreme Court yesterday accepted the latest challenge to the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, agreeing to consider whether the makers of a movie critical of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) have to disclose who donated to the project and
Flooding in Tenbury Wells has come under the spotlight as TV crews descended on the town to film a special report for BBC One's The Politics Show, broadcast on Sunday.
