Buoyant and fresh from their party's convention, presidential nominee John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin promised a crowd of more than 7,000 in Sterling Heights on Friday that they'd shake up Washington in a way Democratic rival Barack Obama can't. The duo, which this week revved up GOP hopes ...
Read more...RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages. Hanna moved quickly inland after cruising ashore overnight ...
Read more...ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday. Underscoring the problems he faces, a suicide car bomber killed 16 people in an attack on a police post in the northwestern city of Peshawar ...
Read more...GONAIVES, Haiti - Receding waters in the starving Haitian city of Gonaives revealed the bodies of more victims in floods from Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of people. Officials feared fatalities in Haiti from Hanna could rise above the 163 ...
Read more...Pakistani injured men are attended by a paramedic at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. An explosives-laden car rammed into a security checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile northwest Saturday, setting off a massive blast that killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens ...
Read more...WASHINGTON -- Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are putting aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, in a joint statement released Saturday, say they will appear ...
Read more...Boeing Co. machinists walked out on strike Saturday after contract talks arbitrated by a federal mediator failed to produce an agreement. About 100 union members hoisted their strike signs at 12:01 a.m. outside the Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) plant in this city north of Seattle, cheering and ...
Read more...NORTH BERGEN, N.J. (AP) _ Authorities in New Jersey say a bomb scare involving a package on a freight train appears to have been a hoax. Police in the town of North Bergen say dozens of officers searched through more than 1,000 packages taken from the freight train and finally found one package with ...
Read more...VIENNA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Nuclear Suppliers Group has approved a controversial deal under which the United States will sell nuclear technology to India for peaceful purpose, diplomats attending the group's meeting said Saturday. The 45-nation group resolved differences over the deal after two ...
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