ATLANTA (AP) - The inauguration of the first black U.S. president is a huge step toward realizing civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of ...
Read More »CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration ...
Read More »The stock market suffered one of its worst single days since the September financial meltdown Monday with the Dow industrials falling nearly 680 points ...
Read More »AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin implored Georgia Republicans to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in his hotly contested Senate runoff, telling a ...
Read More »BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi lawmakers Monday began debate over a pact with the United States that will allow U.S. forces to remain for three more years, while ...
Read More »Citigroup Inc. is cutting approximately 53,000 more jobs in the coming quarters as the banking giant struggles to steady itself after suffering massive ...
Read More »DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (AP) - Winds were calm Monday, allowing firefighters to make gains on two raging wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes and forced ...
Read More »RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Jubilation, pride and relief permeated pews and pulpits at predominantly black churches across the country on the first Sunday after ...
Read More »LOS ANGELES (AP) - On the first Sunday after a gay marriage ban passed in California, activists rallied in defiance, including hundreds of protesters ...
Read More »In a record bailout of a private company, on Monday the government provided a new $150 billion financial-rescue package to troubled insurance giant American ...
Read More »HONOLULU (AP) - Barack Obama told millions watching him accept the Democratic nomination in Denver that his grandmother's influence on who he is and the ...
Read More »KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunmen in a red Corolla cut off a van of French aid workers on Monday, kidnapping one and fatally shooting an Afghan who tried ...
Read More »In the Senate race, Democrat Frank Lautenberg defeated Republican Dick Zimmer. Robert Andrews, Democrat Frank LoBiondo, Republican Chris Myers, Republican Chris ...
Read More »CHICAGO (AP) - Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's 7-year-old nephew was found dead in the back of an SUV on Monday, ending a frantic search that began after ...
Read More »KIBUMBA, Congo (AP) - Rebels loyal to a renegade warlord seized an east Congo army base and the headquarters of a park housing some of the world's last ...
Read More »A shooting in the heart of the University of Central Arkansas' campus killed two students and wounded a third person, authorities said early Monday. A ...
Read More »KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban gunmen killed a Christian aid worker in Kabul as she was walking to work on Monday. The militant group said it targeted ...
Read More »Stock prices surged Monday as investors took signs of easing credit markets as evidence that government measures to revive the battered financial system ...
Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama administration, the Democratic White House hopeful said Monday. "He ...
Read More »Gov. Sarah Palin said in campaign debate Thursday night that John McCain would "put partisanship aside" to help solve the nation's economic crisis. Democrat ...
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