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Waves generated by the storm surge from Hurricane Gustav crash over the newly-rebuilt Ken Combs Pier on Monday in Gulfport, Miss.

Hurricane Gustav weakens as it closes in on Louisiana coastline

Monday, Sept. 1,2008 10:14 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS – A weakened Hurricane Gustav closed in on flood-prone coastal Louisiana on Monday, bringing punishing wind and sheets of rain. But the storm veered away from New Orleans, where only a few holdouts and those that refused to abandon Bourbon Street remained.

Jeffrey Vannor carries his belongings Saturday while evacuating from the approaching Hurricane Gustav at the Greyhound Bus and Amtrak station in New Orleans. A million people took to Gulf Coast highways Saturday, boarding up homes and businesses and fleeing dangerous Hurricane Gustav by bus and automobile as the season's most powerful Atlantic storm took aim at Louisiana.

Hurricane Gustav strengthens, New Orleans prepares

Saturday, Aug. 30,2008 5:47 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS – Scarred by still-fresh memories of Katrina and spooked by Hurricane Gustav's rapid move toward Category 5 strength, a million residents of the Gulf Coast fled on Saturday – well ahead of the official order to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, smiles as his Vice Presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, pumps her fist as she is introduced to supporters at a campaign rally on Friday in Dayton, Ohio.

McCain chooses Alaska gov as running mate

Friday, Aug. 29,2008 10:51 a.m.

DENVER – Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate, two senior campaign officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

McCain to name VP choice Friday

Friday, Aug. 29,2008 1:16 a.m.

DENVER – Republican presidential candidate John McCain, R-Ariz., decided on a running mate early Thursday, and one top prospect, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, abruptly canceled numerous public appearances.

Rose Byrne, co-president of Campaign for Change, smiles at a joke in Barack Obama's speech during a viewing party Thursday night in the backyard of a home on East 11th Street.

Student Democrats: Words were powerful, ‘more than I expected’

By Ben Phelps · Friday, Aug. 29,2008 1:15 a.m.

Claps and yells echoed across 11th Street as about 80 students gathered around a projector to watch what – at least so far – they called the biggest speech of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves to the crowed on the final night of the Democratic National Convention at INVESCO Field in Denver.

Obama confirms nomination

By Peter Stevenson · Friday, Aug. 29,2008 1:11 a.m.

DENVER – Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., accepted his party’s nomination in front of a crowd of more than 70,000 people Thursday. SLIDESHOW: Obama speaks at DNC

Mexico City Supreme Court upholds abortion

Thursday, Aug. 28,2008 9:27 p.m.

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Supreme Court has upheld legal abortion in the capital. Mexico City is one of only a handful of places in Latin America that allow abortion without limitations in the first trimester.

Citizens protest with golf clubs, batons, bamboo sticks

Thursday, Aug. 28,2008 9:27 p.m.

BANGKOK, Thailand – Thousands of demonstrators – some armed with golf clubs, batons and bamboo sticks – defied a court order to end their occupation of the prime minister’s office compound on Thursday, vowing to remain until the country’s leaders resign.

6.1-magnitude quake shakes Canada’s coast

Thursday, Aug. 28,2008 9:26 p.m.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A strong earthquake struck off Canada’s west coast early Thursday near Vancouver Island. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., wave at the crowd Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Obama officially 1st black nominee

By Peter Stevenson · Thursday, Aug. 28,2008 12:43 a.m.

DENVER – Barack Obama was officially chosen as the Democratic nominee for president Wednesday, making the Illinois senator the first black nominee from either of the two major political parties. The vote also brings to a close a hard-fought battle for the nomination that saw the two front runners – Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., – contest states like Indiana that had been largely irrelevant in previous elections.

Katrina memorial takes shape

Wednesday, Aug. 27,2008 11:56 p.m.

Six mausoleums for the unclaimed dead of Hurricane Katrina stand on what was vacant land just five weeks ago, as New Orleans – in what could be a testament to its determination – scrambles to complete a memorial by Friday’s third anniversary of the storm.

Dalai Lama cancels trips

Wednesday, Aug. 27,2008 11:54 p.m.

The office of the Dalai Lama says the Tibetan spiritual leader is suffering from exhaustion and is canceling his international trips

2 Iraqi officials accused of aiding al-Qaida insurgents

Wednesday, Aug. 27,2008 11:45 p.m.

A university president and a top local official in a restive province north of Baghdad are suspected of giving weapons and government cars to al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents, according to arrest reports obtained Wednesday.

Clinton to supporters: ‘I want you to ask yourselves, ‘Were you in this campaign just for me?’’

Wednesday, Aug. 27,2008 12:28 a.m.

DENVER – Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House Tuesday night, declaring in a Democratic National Convention speech that the man who defeated her “is my candidate and he must be our president.”

Aurora Police Department Detective, Marcus Dudley, speaks to the media during a press conference at the Aurora Police Department in Aurora, Colo., on Monday. Federal authorities are looking into reports that a man arrested after officers found rifles, ammunition and drugs in his truck might have made threats against Barack Obama, officials said Monday.

Gun charges expected in Obama assassination plot

Wednesday, Aug. 27,2008 12:04 a.m.

DENVER – Three men who authorities initially feared were plotting to assassinate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention are facing only gun charges – signaling they never posed a real threat.

Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during the Democratic National Convention on Monday in Denver.

Kennedy, Michelle Obama rally Dems

Tuesday, Aug. 26,2008 1:08 a.m.

DENVER – Ailing and aging, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy issued a ringing summons to fellow Democrats to rally behind Barack Obama’s pioneering quest for the White House Monday night in a poignant opening to a party convention in search of unity for the fall campaign.

Released Palestinian prisoner Said al-Atba, 57, kisses his mother as he arrives Monday in the city of Nablus. Al-Atba was the longest serving Palestinian inmate in Israel, having served 31 years of a life sentence for masterminding a 1977 market bombing that killed one
and wounded dozens more in central Israel.

Israel frees Palestinians before Rice visit

Monday, Aug. 25,2008 8:47 p.m.

Ramallah, West Bank – Israel freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians on Monday – including a militant mastermind from the 1970s – in a goodwill gesture just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began her latest peace mission to the region.

In this June 14, 2008 file photo, Virginia Democratic Senatorial candidate, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner gestures during a speech during the Virginia Democratic State Convention in Hampton, Va. Warner has been tapped to be the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, a plum spot that is often a springboard to national prominence.

Democratic convention keynote speaker announced

Wednesday, Aug. 13,2008 1:11 p.m.

Senate candidate and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner is scheduled to deliver the Tuesday night keynote address at this year's Democratic National Convention – the same role that launched Barack Obama to national prominence four years ago.

A column of tanks and other armored vehicles roll near the town of Alagir on the road to the border of the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia on Saturday.

Georgia: In 'state of war' over South Ossetia

Saturday, Aug. 9,2008 10:11 p.m.

Russia and small, U.S.-allied Georgia headed toward a wider war Saturday as Russian tanks rumbled into the contested province of South Ossetia and Russian aircraft bombed a Georgian town, escalating a conflict that already has left hundreds dead.

A Chinese man cycles past the Drum Tower in Beijing, China on Saturday. Beijing authorities say a Chinese man attacked two American tourists on the opening day of the Olympic Games, killing one of them before committing suicide.

Relative of US Olympic coach killed in Beijing

Saturday, Aug. 9,2008 8:44 a.m.

A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics on Saturday, team officials and state media said.

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