Nation and World
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Nominee addresses Iraq
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Slow progress in Iraq is undermining U.S. credibility and emboldening Iran's regional ambitions, says President Bush's nominee to head the Joint Chiefs of ...
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Afghanistan, not Iraq, offers the best blueprint to strike al-Qaeda
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - The right model for a Waziristan campaign is the CIA-led operation in Afghanistan, not the invasion of Iraq. The July 17 National Intelligence Estimate put the problem p...
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Celebrity news
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Britney Spears' marriage to Kevin Federline officially ended Monday. "They are divorced," the pop star's attorney, Laura Wasser, said after a Los Angeles Superior Court...
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Court-martial begins in alleged Iraqi murders
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- A Fort Campbell soldier accused of acting as a lookout while his colleagues attacked and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family pleaded gui...
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U.S. Toyota workers want to unionizeJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- As U.S. auto workers negotiate with the faltering Big Three under intense pressure to surrender benefits, employees at Toyota's flagship U.S. plant wa...
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Most save enough for pleasant retirementsJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - What if we're not improvident fools? That possibility is suggested by a recent study. It received virtually no attention, perhaps because it contained no bad news. The s...
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Chinese coal miners alive
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - BEIJING -- Nearly 70 miners trapped for more than 24 hours in a flooded coal mine in central China were still alive Monday, and rescuers were trying to send them supplie...
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Wildfires flare in Montana
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - HELENA, Mont. -- A trio of fast-moving new wildfires in Montana threatened more than 100 homes and other buildings, and 80 were under evacuation orders, officials said M...
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Russia endorses Abbas
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Russia considers President Mahmoud Abbas the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday in Moscow's strongest stat...
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On common ground, for now
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - CAMP DAVID, Md. -- Gordon Brown came to President Bush's mountaintop retreat to get closer to the leader of Britain's most valuable ally. But not too close. Wary of ever...