1.U.S. Marines are staging a major assault on a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan. US, NATO and Afghan troops are working to protect voting sites around this country ahead of next week's presidential election. Taliban militants have vowed to...
1.Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy has died. Shriver was best-known for founding the Special Olympics. She was 88. 2.One person is dead and dozens others are injured as two powerful earthquakes hit Asia. A 7.6-magnitud...
1. President Barack Obama predicts Congress will pass his sweeping health care overhaul this fall. Some opponents say an overhaul will result in a government-run system where people are denied care. Obama spoke at a news conference following his sum...
1. The National Transportation Safety Board says three of nine presumed victims of a helicopter-plane collision over the Hudson River have been recovered. A small plane collided with a New York City sightseeing helicopter carrying Italian tourists a...
1.A pullback in the nation's unemployment rate has President Barack Obama hopeful the recession may be drawing down. But he says the rate may still hit 10% this year. The latest jobless figure - 9.4%. 2.Republican Senator Mel Martinez of Florida is...
1. The Senate is expected to vote today to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic justice, and just the third woman justice. Sotomayor will replace Justice David Souter. 2. A South...
1.Family members say Laura Ling and Euna Lee were kept apart and fed rice with rocks in it during their 5-month detention in North Korea. Ling and Lee returned to the US Wednesday after being granted a pardon. The reporters have been sentenced to a...
1. Four people are dead and at least ten others have been wounded in a shooting at a suburban Pittsburg health club. A local police superintendent says the gunman walked right into the room where the shootings occurred as if he knew exactly where he...
1.Former President Bill Clinton is on a mission to North Korea. He is hoping to secure the release of two jailed American journalists. The White House isnt commenting on the visit for now. Officials say the administration doesn't want to jeopardize...
1. Continental flight 128 was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami after hitting severe turbulence during an overnight flight from Brazil to Texas. At least 26 people on board were injured, four of them seriously. 2. White House Spokesman Ro...
The long quest to figure out what happened to Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher after he was shot down at the start of the first Gulf War has finally been answered. The Pentagon says information from an Iraqi citizen last month led marines to recove...
1. The Navy says the remains of the first American lost in the 1991 Gulf War have been found. Captain Michael Scott Speicher was shot down 18 years ago in a jet over the Iraqi desert. Officials say new information led to the remains at what is belie...
1. The House has voted to rush an additional two billion dollars into the popular but financially strapped cash for clunkers car purchase program. House members acted within hours of learning from the transportation secretary that the program was ru...
1.President Barack Obama is set to sit down with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Massachusetts police Sergeant James Crowley at the White House today. Crowley is white and arrested Gates who is black on a disorderly conduct cha...
