Opening statements have begun in O.J. Simpson’s trial on charges that he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas a year ago.
President Bush sympathized Monday with investors and employees of storied but fallen financial institutions, but said federal policy makers will focus their attention on “the health of the financial system as a whole.”
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign announced Sunday it raised $66 million in August, marking another record fundraising month for the Democrat. The August total tops the $55 million Obama raised last February.He reached the $66 million mark with help from more than a half million new donors.Obama’s total for August was almost $20 million more than the $47 million Republican rival John McCain raised last month.Obama’s campaign said with the latest figures he had more than $77 million cash on hand.More details about the campaigns’ finance are expected later this week, when their monthly financial reports are due at the Federal Election Commission.
A commuter train engineer who ran a stop signal was blamed Saturday for the nation’s deadliest rail disaster in 15 years, a wreck that killed 25 people and left such a mass of smoldering, twisted metal that it took nearly a day to recover all the bodies.
Nearly 2,000 people in Texas who refused orders to evacuate before Hurricane Ike have been rescued by land, air and water.
Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy Sunday in one of Iraq’s most dangerous provinces, killing five policemen. In Baghdad, the leader of a Sunni group allied with the U.S. died when his booby-trapped car exploded.
President Bush secretly approved U.S. military raids inside Pakistan against alleged terrorist targets, according to a former intelligence official with recent access to the Bush administration’s debate about fighting al-Qaida and the Taliban inside the area.
Lebanese leaders urged for calm on Thursday after the country’s first political assassination in months threatened efforts to reconcile its divided factions.
An insurgent attack on a compound in eastern Afghanistan killed a U.S. soldier, bringing the year’s death toll to 112 and making 2008 the deadliest for American forces in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.
The nation paused Thursday morning to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with heartfelt remembrances at the World Trade Center site, the dedication of a memorial at the Pentagon and a planned visit to ground zero by the presidential candidates.
GENEVA – A small blip on a computer screen sent champagne corks popping among physicists in Switzerland. Near Chicago, researchers at a “pajama party” who watched via satellite let out an early morning cheer.The blip was of cosmic proportions, representing a new tool to probe the birth of the universe.The world’s largest atom smasher passed its first test Wednesday as scientists said their powerful tool is almost ready to reveal how the tiniest particles were first created after the “big bang,” which many theorize was the massive explosion that formed the stars and planets.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday accused Republican John McCain’s campaign of using “lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics” in claiming he used a sexist comment against vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, began his term as Pakistan’s new president Tuesday by declaring the war on terrorism a chance for the country to overcome its economic problems.
Missiles fired from U.S. drone aircraft hit a seminary and houses associated with a Taliban commander, killing at least nine people, including both militants and civilians, officials and witnesses said.
Authorities called off evacuation orders for the Florida Keys on Monday as a ferocious Hurricane Ike shifted south over Cuba and appeared on track to miss the low-lying U.S. island chain.
Three men were convicted Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign, but the jury could not reach a verdict on allegations that they plotted to use liquid explosives to down trans-Atlantic airliners.
A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond’s home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast.
Canada’s prime minister dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election next month in hopes of strengthening his Conservative minority government’s hold on power.
Iraqi lawmakers end their summer break this week facing urgent tasks of approving a new election law and signing off on a still-unfinished security pact with the U.S. – key steps in laying the foundation for a lasting peace.
A roadside bomb killed two American soldiers patrolling eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said, announcing the first combat deaths in the capital in a week.
