Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she will visit Libya before the Bush administration leaves office to celebrate a dramatic turnaround in U.S. ties with the former pariah state.
Turns out Democratic primary loser Hillary Rodham Clinton will get time to shine at the party's national convention after all -- and quite a bit of it. Democrats officially will choose Barack Obama to run against Republican John McCain this fall.
Choosing expediency over principle, the United States and its allies are pushing Georgia's pro-Western government to accept major concessions in a cease-fire with Russia.
Police say at least 15 hitchhikers have been killed and 14 others injured when the truck they were riding in plunged into a ravine in a southern Philippine mining area.
The trial of a teenager accused of fatally stabbing another student at school has been delayed while prosecutors appeal a judge's decision to bar recorded conversations between the defendant and his parents.
President Bush on Friday accused Russia of "bullying and intimidation" against Georgia, saying that the people in the former Soviet republic chose freedom and "we will not cast them aside."
PROVIDENCE - The majority of Governor Donald L. Carcieri's Commission on Hispanic Affairs resigned yesterday to protest his executive order cracking down on illegal immigrants, and they accused Carcieri of creating a climate of a fear and anxiety in Rhode Island.
A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported.
IN THE HEADLINES Jackson Browne sues McCain, RNC over use of song in ad mocking Obama's `tire gauge' remark ... Troops donate more campaign money to Obama than McCain, despite McCain's military record ... A banished adviser stops by to see McCain in a warmer clime ...
The corruption trial of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife can proceed even though the couple fled to Britain earlier this week, a Thai court ruled Friday.
Five foreign activists were deported Friday after they scaled a landmark building in Beijing to unfurl a "Free Tibet" banner over the top of an Olympic Games billboard in the latest protest during the games.
A federal prosecutor says a former West Haven man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for his role in an elaborate Internet scheme to steal identities.
The Baldacci administration is looking for the public's input as a special task force studies the idea of consolidating the work of Maine's five natural resource-related departments.
