1. A two-day nuclear summit with leaders from 47 countries starts today in Washington. President Barack Obama is looking for global help in his goal of ensuring all nuclear materials worldwide within four years. The president considers nuclear weapon...
1. Tens of thousands of Poles turned out to see the hearse carrying the coffin of their late president. The coffin arrived in Poland from Russia where President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people died in a plane crash Saturday. Russian officials said...
1. Crews have begun the grim task of carrying bodies out of a West Virginia coal mine rocked by an explosion Monday that killed 29 miners. There was thin hope four miners have survived, but their bodies were finally discovered ending days of futile s...
1. President Barack Obama is in the Czech Republic, signing a major arms reduction treaty with Russia. Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed the treaty, shrinking both nations' arsenals to 1550 over seven years. It still needs to be ratified by...
1. Federal officials say it is still too dangerous to send rescue crews into a West Virginia mine. Levels of gas here are still too high. Four miners are missing .The governor of the state says family members are clinging to what he calls a sliver of...
Crews are drilling holes hoping to ventilate toxic gas from a West Virginia mine where 25 miners were killed. Four miners are being missing. Once the mine is ventilated, officials say teams will need four to five hours to reach the area where rescue...
1.West Virginias governor says it may be Wednesday night before crews can resume their search for four missing miners. The efforts were put on hold because elevated methane and carbon monoxide readings. Monday's huge explosion killed 25 workers. 2.Pr...
1. The downtown area of the US border city of Calexico remains shut down after a powerful earthquake rattled southern California and Mexico. The 7.2-magnitude quake killed at least two and injured at least 100 more. The quake was felt as far away as...
1. Those around him are continuing their defence of Pope Benedict on the Easter Sunday. The Pope avoided any public mention of the sex abuse scandal and the allegations of a church cover-up. At Easter Sunday Mass, a senior cardinal defended Benedict...
1. President Barack Obama tells Americans to not judge the nearly one-trillion-dollar makeover of health care until reforms take hold. During this campaign-style appearance, Obama mocked pundits and pollsters, who were saying he is not getting a boos...
1.Flood waters are starting to finally recede in parts of the northeast,The hardest-hit state actually nicknamed the ocean state.Rhode Island has seen his worst flooding in 2 centuries.High water has forced evacuations and overwhelmed sewer systems.P...
1. President Barack Obama says his decision to clear the way for oil drilling off most US shores is a compromise aimed at harnessing the nation's energy resources while also protecting its natural resources. The president says he knows environmentali...
1. President Barack Obama plans to announce today that the government will allow oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shoreline. However, it will reject some proposed drilling sites in Alaska. Up to now, only offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico w...
With this signing, President Barack Obama says hes made college education more accessible. He signed education legislation thatll eliminate the role of banks, says the middleman in federal students loans. He says this would save the country billions...
1. Attorney General Eric Holder is calling it a severe blow to a dangerous organization. Memebers of a Christian militia have been charged `with plotting to kill police officers before attempting to kill more during a funeral. FBI agents have arreste...
