Nation and World
-
Never too cool, or old, for school
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - CANBERRA, Australia -- A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother who left school at the age of 12 appears to be the world's oldest recipient of a master's degree, an ...
-
Rap, Uzis and the InternetAug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - "... If this account doesn't reach $50,000 in the next 7 days then a murderous rampage similar to the VT shooting will occur at another highly populated university. This...
-
Court rules against Plame, despite public records
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) -- The CIA can force Valerie Plame, whose career became national news after her once-clandestine position was leaked, to remain silent about the exact leng...
-
Musharraf suffers another setback
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release on bail of a senior opposition leader who was sentenced to 23 years in prison for tryi...
-
Senate passes spy bill
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Senate, in a high-stakes showdown over national security, voted late Friday to temporarily give President Bush expanded authority to eavesdrop on suspe...
-
Statement behind Dow drop
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street plunged anew Friday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 280 points after comments from a major investment bank exacerbated ...
-
Teen gets life in prison for killing principal
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - BARABOO, Wis. (AP) -- A 16-year-old was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the shooting death of his high school principal. Eric Ha...
-
Court sides with Congress on raid
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The judicial branch offered the executive branch a civics lesson Friday: The Justice Department can't rifle through a congressman's legislative documents, ...
-
Lander to give Mars its first libraryAug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- When NASA's newest Mars lander departs Earth this weekend, it will be carrying the words and art of visionaries from Voltaire to Carl Sagan....
-
Bush invites nations to confront climate change
Aug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush invited representatives of major industrialized and developing countries to a fall climate change summit in Washington the same week that th...