Nation and World
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Documents: Missing Marine claimed officer raped her
Jan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - JACKSONVILLE, N.C. -- A pregnant Marine who vanished last month before she was to testify in a military probe had claimed that a superior officer raped her and that the ...
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Bernanke hints at another rate cut
Jan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pledged Thursday to slash interest rates as needed to prevent housing and credit problems from plunging the country i...
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Bush: Make peace -- fast
Jan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - JERUSALEM -- President Bush glided easily in his armored limousine through security checkpoints dividing Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday, getting a firsthand look ...
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Oil settles lower on gasoline supplyJan 09, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oil prices settled lower Wednesday after swelling gasoline supplies offset a tumble in crude oil stockpiles to their lowest level in more than three years. C...
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New estimate of Iraqi deaths: 151,000
Jan 09, 2008 10:00 pm - About 151,000 Iraqis died from violence in the three years after the United States invaded, concludes the best effort yet to count deaths -- one that still may not settl...
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Countrywide news signals worsening housing market
Jan 09, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Countrywide Financial Corp., its stock pummeled this week by rumors of bankruptcy and lackluster housing market forecasts, said Wednesday the percentage o...
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Why the pollsters didn't predict Clinton's New Hampshire winJan 09, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton's victory in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential nominating contest confounded pollsters, who found themselves trying to explain how op...
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New Hampshire voters put a high value on characterJan 09, 2008 10:00 pm - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The lesson of New Hampshire can be summarized in two simple words: Character counts. John McCain and Hillary Clinton left the Granite State Wednesda...
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Walgreen CEO predicts improvementJan 09, 2008 10:00 pm - Facing the threat of a recession on the horizon and an unusually light flu season, Walgreen Chief Executive Officer Jeffery Rein nevertheless vowed a full recovery for t...
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Web suicide case draws federal probe
Jan 09, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to MySpace.com in a probe stemming from the suicide of a Missouri teenager who received cruel messages on the n...