By VIKAS BAJAJ and KEITH BRADSHER Investors around the world breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after the federal government took over and backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, assuring a continued flow of credit through America’s wounded mortgage system ...
CAMAGUEY, Cuba (AP) - Hurricane Ike roared onto Cuba Sunday after destroying houses and crops on low-lying islands and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.
By KAREN CROUSE No world No. 1 in women’s tennis has slogged through so desolate a valley between peaks than Serena Williams. After relinquishing the top spot in August 2003, Williams fell so far that she was not within an echo’s distance of the summit ...
By Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty Images By Susan Page, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - John McCain and the GOP have seen a significant boost in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll from the Republican convention: a rising tide that has turned around the contest with Democrat ...
NEW DELHI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Indian shares rose more than 4 percent early on Monday after a global atomic cartel lifted a 34-year-old nuclear trade ban, paving the way for new sources of power in the energy-hungry nation.
By BY GIL HOFFMAN AND DAN IZENBERG Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will remain head of the transitional government that would come into being when he quits following the Kadima primary, even if Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz decides to indict him, ...
(09-07) 21:10 PDT Martinez -- Trying to save three women and three screaming children from an angry gunman, Martinez police officers Paul Starzyk and Ian Leong stood in a narrow hallway leading to a second-floor apartment on Saturday - and prepared to ...
By PETE THAMEL For the past eight seasons, Matt Cassel has backed up quarterbacking royalty. He carried clipboards for Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart during their Heisman Trophy-winning seasons at Southern California.
By Mark McCord and Bernard Lo Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong voters chose a new legislature, with pro-democracy parties retaining a law-blocking veto and the pro-business Liberal Party losing its top two leaders in surprise defeats.
By MARCUS WALKER BERLIN -- Faced with crumbling support and a growing challenge from the far left, Germany's Social Democrat party nominated Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to lead the party into national elections next year.
AP BURLINGTON, Wash. -- Gov. Christine Gregoire will speak during a memorial for Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy Anne Jackson, who was one of six people killed in a shooting rampage in the Alger area in Skagit County last week.
A person was fatally shot in the chest after a dispute at a New Lenox-area business Sunday night, police said. Two people were arguing at a business in a small industrial park at 1022 S. Cedar Rd.
Indianapolis, IN (Sports Network) - Rookie Matt Forte rushed for 123 yards on 23 carries and found the end zone, while also catching three balls for 18 yards, as the Chicago Bears christened Indianapolis' brand new Lucas Oil Stadium with a 29-13 ...
By CARLOTTA GALL AZIZABAD, Afghanistan - To the villagers here, there is no doubt what happened in an American airstrike on Aug. 22: more than 90 civilians, the majority of them women and children, were killed.
By WILLIAM C. RHODEN Analysis and discussion of the NFL draft and off-season news from around the league. Brett Favre needed less than seven minutes on Sunday to christen a new season and put his signature on what the Jets desperately hope will be a ...
Winston Peters and New Zealand First now face a third investigation into the way they have handled political donations. Police have told ONE News they will investigate the failure of NZ First to declare donations, after a complaint from Act Party ...
By Joey Bunch An exchange of gunfire on the street left two men injured tonight and at least one man in jail as Denver police try to unravel a shootout near Martin Luther King Boulevard and East Bruce Randolph Avenue.
By Theophilos Argitis and Alexandre Deslongchamps Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper started his re-election bid by promising to continue delivering budget surpluses after a record 10 in a row and warning that a ``risky'' ...
Manchester, NH - Would lowering the drinking age make alcohol problems more or less prevalent on campus? In a bold challenge to the decades-old status quo, 129 college presidents have signed a statement calling on elected officials to support an ...
Hurricane Ike bore down on Cuba after roaring across low-lying islands Sunday, tearing apart houses, wiping out crops and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.
The U.S. military said Sunday that new information has emerged regarding allegations that American airstrikes killed scores of Afghan civilians, prompting a new review of the incident.
Wall Street finally got what it's been angling for: a bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could aid a recovery of the broken U.S. housing market and arrest a slide in stock and credit markets worldwide.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he was probably too flip when he said it was above my pay grade to answer a question about when is a baby entitled to human rights.
Displaying the talent and tenacity that helped her dominate tennis earlier in the decade, Williams outlasted second-seeded Jelena Jankovic of Serbia 6-4, 7-5 Sunday night.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin plans to sit down later this week for her first television interview since John McCain chose her as his running mate more than a week ago.
Washington Mutual Inc., the largest U.S. savings and loan, is replacing Chief Executive Kerry Killinger, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Sunday.
Britney Spears' appearance at the Video Music Awards this year was brief, but she didn't embarrass herself as she did at last year's show. In fact, she came back to win all three of the awards for which she was nominated.
In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat and have even needed liver transplants.
Andy Murray finished a stunning, rain-interrupted victory over No. 1 Rafael Nadal 6-2, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4 at the U.S. Open on Sunday to reach his first Grand Slam final.
The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.
A series of roadside bombs wounded at least 14 people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital.
