Wind gusting more than 60 mph knocked out power to about 370,000Michigan homes and businesses on Sunday as temperatures dipped backinto the 20s and 30s. Meanwhile, flood warnings were posted throughout the Midwest astemperatures rose after a week of heavy

There are thirty-four former military ranges in Ukraine of overall area more than 150,000 hectares, which need to be totally cleared and transferred for safe agricultural use.

Fatal stabbings in England and Wales have risen to their highest level in three decades, according to the Conservatives.

Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn said he is certain scandal-plagued Gov. Rod Blagojevich will be out of office by Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial birthday celebration Feb. 12, 2009.

Governor Rod Blagojevich on Sunday announced $2 million in grants to help people with disabilities stay in their own homes.

Minnesota is deep in the hole financially, but the state still owns apremier golf resort, a sprawling amateur sports complex, a big airport,a major zoo and land holdings the size of the Central American countryof Belize. Valuables like these are

First lady Laura Bush says President Bush laughed it off, but that itwas an "assault" when an Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at thepresident during a news conference in Baghdad.

A top adviser to President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that thecountry's slowing economy won't keep the new administration fromfulfilling its plans for a middle-class tax cut. "We feel it's important that middle-class people get some relief now," Obama adviser David

Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, speaking from Chicago, said on CBS' "Face theNation" he believes Blagojevich will be impeached and convicted by theIllinois Legislature by Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial birthdaycelebration on Feb. 12.

Bruce Pardo's downward slide ended Christmas Eve, when the 45-year-oldelectrical engineer donned a Santa suit and massacred nine people athis former in-laws' house in Covina, where a family Christmas party wasunder way. He then used a homemade device disguised as

Dozens of Liberian immigrants mourned Saturday at a house where sevenmembers of their community died in a fire that a survivor said startedwhen a kerosene heater spilled fuel and exploded as it was being movedoutdoors. Authorities have not released the

The two most influential women in President George W. Bush's WhiteHouse — first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice —are strongly defending the president's legacy against critics who arecalling his administration one of the worst in history.

A single-file line of school children walked past a military checkpointSunday as a bomb-loaded truck veered toward them and exploded, endingthe lives of 14 young Afghans in a heartbreaking flash captured by aU.S. military security camera. The video shows an

The deaths of hundreds of Palestinians in Israel's deadliest-ever air assault on the militant Hamas further complicates President-elect Barack Obama's challenge to achieve a Middle East peace — something that eluded both the Bush and Clinton administrations.

Israel widened its deadliest-ever air offensive against Gaza's Hamasrulers Sunday, pounding smuggling tunnels and a central prison, sendingmore tanks and artillery toward the Gaza border and approving areserves callup for a possible ground invasion.