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Friday, July 03, 2009
Nawa, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles ...
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 Marines launch large-scale operation against Taliban 7/2/2009 |
Air France plane hit the ocean belly first
Le Bourget, France - Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 ...
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Bill fines people refusing coverage
Washington - Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill ...
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California begins printing IOUs
Sacramento, Calif. - Deep in debt and short on cash, California on Thursday started churning out its first batch of IOUs in nearly two decades ...
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FBI interviews: Saddam Hussein sought familiar refuge
Baghdad - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he ...
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Herbert Klein, former Nixon aide, 91
San Diego (AP) - Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon's ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was ...
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Lookout
Students peer out the windows of the Cody 9th Grade Academy in Detroit after shots were reportedly fired Thursday morning, two days after seven teenagers ...
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New form of El Nino may increase storms
Washington (AP) - El Nino may have a split personality.
The warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean has long been known to affect weather around the ...
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North Korea fires missiles
Seoul, South Korea - North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast Thursday, a possible prelude to the launch of a ...
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Post publisher cancels plans for paid-access 'salons'
Washington - Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth Thursday canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after learning that marketing fliers offered ...
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Rowe deciding whether to seek custody
Los Angeles - Deborah Rowe, the ex-wife of Michael Jackson and the mother of two of his children, has not reached a final decision on ...
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Sanford's wife may be able to forgive affair
Columbia, S.C. - South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she may be able to forgive her husband's much-publicized affair with an Argentine woman, but ...
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Actor Karl Malden dead at 97
Los Angeles (AP) - Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, ...
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Debris was life preserver for survivor of jet crash
Paris - When rescuers saw Bahia Bakari, 14 years old, she was clinging to wreckage in rough seas, surrounded by floating corpses and debris from ...
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Escaped pet python strangles child
Oxford, Fla . - A pet Burmese python measuring more than 8 feet long broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her ...
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Europe weighs retort to Iran
Paris - Iran risked diplomatic isolation from the European Union, as European officials discussed whether to withdraw the ambassadors of all 27 member nations in ...
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Federal agents to join Jackson death probe
Los Angeles - The investigation into Michael Jackson's death deepened late Wednesday with word that federal authorities will step in to help local police take ...
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Masses yearn to huddle in Liberty's reopened crown
New York - It's crowded. It's hot. You have to climb hundreds of steps to get there. And throngs of people can't wait to visit.
Unfortunately, ...
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Nuns in U.S. under review by the Vatican
The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets ...
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OAS puts heat on Honduras to return Zelaya
Tegucigalpa, Honduras - Ramping up pressure on Honduras' interim rulers, the Organization of American States threatened Wednesday to suspend the nation's membership if ousted President ...
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South Carolina's first lady is angry, but....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina's first lady says Gov. Mark Sanford's actions are "inexcusable" but she is willing to forgive him.
Jenny Sanford on Thursday ...
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