Despite a fresh warning in Washington about a prolonged economic slump, President Bush said Monday that he thinks Americans’ attitudes about the financial turmoil are shifting away from “near panic.”
“I have heard that people’s attitudes are beginning to change from a period of intense concerns — I would call it near panic — to being [...]
President Bush said Sunday he will visit Texas on Tuesday to express sympathy for victims of Hurricane Ike and lend support for recovery efforts.
“This is a tough storm and it’s one that’s going to require time for people to recover,” the president said from the White House’s Roosevelt Room after receiving an update from his [...]
As the U.S. presidential elections draw closer, voting activists are bracing themselves for an onslaught of online dirty tricks and misinformation campaigns designed to deceive and disenfranchise voters.
Political dirty tricks and misinformation close to election time are, of course, nothing new. But experts say they are about to get nastier and more prevalent because of [...]
Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, keynoting the Democratic National Convention, said Tuesday that American voters “have one shot to get it right” by electing Barack Obama president to end Republican leadership that is stuck in the past.
Warner rebuked President Bush and GOP nominee-to-be John McCain, but his address was hardly a summons to political arms [...]
A jail inmate was charged on Friday with sending a threatening letter laced with white powder to U.S. presidential candidate John McCain, triggering a security scare at his Colorado campaign office.Authorities said the suspect, Marc Harold Ramsey, 39, was pinpointed quickly because the return address included his name, inmate number and location of the jail [...]
Federal investigators said Thursday they have solved a mystery of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories.
The 47-story trapezoid-shaped building sat north of the World Trade Center towers, across Vesey Street in lower Manhattan in New York. On Sept. 11, it was set [...]
Colton Burkhart was just 4 when he swallowed a quarter-sized medallion that nearly took his life.
He didn’t choke on it. But the metal trinket from a gumball-type machine contained 39 percent lead, and nearly five years later — after surgery to remove the toy, batteries of tests and therapy, the Oregon boy still has elevated [...]
Russia dispatched an armored column into the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia on Friday after Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a surprise offensive to crush separatists. Witnesses said hundreds of civilians were killed. Fighting reportedly raged well into the night with Georgia’s interior ministry saying early Saturday that warplanes attacked three Georgian military bases [...]
A judge ordered Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail Thursday for violating the terms of his bond in his perjury case by making a city business trip to Canada and not informing the court.
The mayor, who is accused of lying under oath in a civil case and faces eight felony counts, made the trip last month [...]
Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana on Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours.
Emergency teams were activated as Gulf residents prepared for a second strong storm in less than a month, although Edouard is forecast to hit [...]