Nation and World
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Chief Justice John Roberts leaves hospital a day after seizure
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Waving and smiling, Chief Justice John Roberts walked briskly out of a hospital in Maine on Tuesday and resumed his vacation, returning to normalcy...
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Afghanistan rejects demand
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - GHAZNI, Afghanistan -- South Korea and relatives of 21 kidnapped Koreans appealed for U.S. help Tuesday, but Afghanistan said for the first time it will not release insu...
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Letters to the editorJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Let's find truth about push for war If America wants the truth behind the reasons to invade Iraq, why doesn't it insist on access to the Energy Task Force minutes, a mee...
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Letters to the editorJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Leave nominations to party stalwarts Fifteen months away from the next presidential election, and we have all but anointed the next Democrat challenger! Super-egotists c...
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Security Council approves 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur on Tuesday to try to help end four years of fighting that has ...
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Band manager seeks parole
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The former rock band tour manager whose pyrotechnics ignited a nightclub fire that killed 100 people is scheduled for a parole hearing on Sept. 19 th...
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Possibilty of another Jason Bourne film remains
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Frank Marshall won't rule out another sequel to the Jason Bourne films but says the story already has ventured far afield from Robert Ludlum's novels. "There might be an...
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Stocks fall despite GM earnings, consumer confidence
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street showed further signs of stability Tuesday, rising sharply on strong earnings at General Motors Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. even as investors ...
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Audit faults parishes
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- A handful of parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego deliberately concealed or inappropriately handled about $500,000 in funds in sometimes "pur...
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Thompson's idea of law and order isn't like Marshall Dillon'sJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Both common sense and the law of averages escape presidential candidates, especially Republicans looking to assert their conservative bona fides. It's a shame that Fred ...