A delegation of US and European diplomats is reportedly heading to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to try to broker a truce in the escalating conflict with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashv...
Opening ceremonies in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games where the show began with movie director Zhang Yimou's version of Chinese history complete with drummers and lavish traditional garb. With the lighting of the Olympic Flame, the Games officiall...
A military jury has sentenced the former driver for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden to five and a half years in prison. The sentence handed down to Salim Hamdan for his conviction of supporting terrorism was far less than the 30 years prosecutors h...
Government papers released in the anthrax investigation paint Army scientist Bruce Ivins as a disturbed man who tried to mislead investigators by submitting false samples. NPR's Allison Keyes has more. According to the documents, the case against Iv...
President Bush has arrived in South Korea at the start of his Asian tour. The president's plane landed today at a military airport near the South Korean capital. He is expected to meet with South Korea's president tomorrow. North Korea's nuclear pro...
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Millions of Americans are too ashamed to get help for illiteracy ...to a problem that affects millions of Americans and yet is something of a silent epidemic, that's because the people affected are often hesitant to seek help. The problem is illiter...
Beijing is asking Washington to provide more information about the destruction of a U.S. satellite. CNN's John Vause reports Officials in Beijing have been choosing their words carefully, playing up their concern about any harm the satellite shoot-d...
The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled spy satellite to prevent a potential deadly gas leak, officials said. Upon notification of the descending NRO satellite, the President and his national and homeland security advisors reviewed the options a...
.....And across the country Americans are trying to beat the heat, taking shelter from days of scorching temperatures at cooling centers, just as wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres in 12 states. NBC's John Larson is in Winnemucca,...