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President-elect Barack Obama on Monday began work with congressional leaders to hammer out a stimulus package designed to jump start the ailing US economy.
Speaking with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Monday morning ahead of the closed door meeting, Obama stressed that it was important to get to work on the plan before he takes...
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 A scientist and former U.S. Army man was named a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax deadly attack. He was later cleared of all charges, but a federal judge wanted to make public the court records which have been sealed for so many years. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth released the information for The New York Times...
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 Three teenagers from a school-sponsored camp drowned in the Fox River as they tried to sneak out during the night and go for a boat ride. The students took four or five paddle boats, which were already removed the floor plugs for the winter, went on the water and slowly sank.John Greene, battalion chief of the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills...
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 Raul Nunez, 32, shot two police officers at 21st St. Queens Bridge subway station at about 5 p.m. on Tuesday. One of the officers, Jason Maass, was released from hospital, but his fellow partner will have to recover in the hospital for a few more days. The two were saved by a lieutenant who shot Nunez four times.The 32-year-old man is an...
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Behind the scenes after a US presidential election debate, so-called spin doctors wrestle to impose their own side's interpretations of what the country just heard.
Campaign specialists evaluate and parse every event, comment and speech. Their prime goal is to make an impression on the US media, which are covering the longest and...
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 California Highway Patrol has released a statement saying that seven people were killed and 30 others were wounded last night after a bus which was carrying casino-bound gamblers had got off the road near Colusa County town of Williams and rolled over. CHP Dispatcher Terry Troth said that "the (bus) was northbound on Lonestar Road...
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 A revised $700 billion financial industry rescue bill made the U.S. House Democratic leaders to become more and more optimistic. The bill which was released by the Senate will clear the House of Representatives that rejected the bailout this week and also rocked the finances all around the world. Steny Hoyer, the House Majority Leader,...
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US President George W Bush called on Congress to pass "bold" legislation Monday to help pull the United States out of a massive financial crisis that would otherwise threaten the entire US economy.
The House of Representatives is expected to vote later Monday after lawmakers worked out the details of the 700-billion-dollar...
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 Joe Petcka, 32, ex-baseball player and actor, killed his girlfriend’s 8-pound cat by taking off its claws. He had to be condemned for his cruelty, but after a week the jury still couldn’t decide whether Petcka did what he did of sadism or self defense. A hung jury was declared by the judge during the trial on Friday, for the rare animal...
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Barack Obama stormed into the backstretch of his historic race for the White House on Thursday, painting a sweeping vision of his confidence in America's promise and reinforcing it with details of how he would restore America's image overseas and the economy at home.
Obama, 47, the first African-American major-party presidential...
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Anyone who expected Hillary Clinton to bow gracefully from the scene or be a sore loser may want to think twice after the heartfelt endorsement she delivered for her onetime rival Barack Obama for US president.
The former first lady, 60, made a grand, triumphant entry into the Pepsi Center convention hall Tuesday evening, creating a...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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The 4x400 metres world record from a United States quartet was on Tuesday nullified by the world governing body IAAF because one of the team-members, Antonio Pettigrew, recently confessed to drug abuse at the time.
Pettigrew was on the US team which ran the record of 2 minutes 54.20 seconds in 1998. He recently admitted to substance...
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 On Sunday a tragic accident took place on the Bay Bridge. A tractor-trailer fell into the Chesapeake Bay leaving its driver dead and closing the bridge during one of the busiest weekends of the year. The accident happened at about 4 a.m. during the two-lane traffic on Bay Bridge.The busiest lane was stretched to 11 miles by afternoon on...
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday the United States would postpone removal of North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, Japanese media reports said Monday.
Rice apparently confirmed with Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura on the phone that North Korea remains on the list as of Monday.
"I...
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 The helicopter that crashed in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest on Tuesday killed nine men and injured four other. The chopper rose from the helipad and then crashed into trees. National Transportation and Safety Board managed to recover the helicopter’s cockpit voice recorder and sent it to Washington D.C. to be verified. The accident...
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At least 12 people were reported killed Friday in the crash of a tour bus off a bridge in the US state of Texas, US media reported.
The accident occurred around 12:45 am (0545 GMT) when the bus carrying 55 people from Houston, Texas into the state of Missouri crashed around 100 kilometres north of Dallas, US broadcaster CNN...
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 Clark Rockefeller, who was accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter, was charged with felony custodial kidnapping, assault and battery, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, after he was detained Saturday in Baltimore.The girl, Reigh Boss, was found inside his apartment. According to Noreen Gleason, FBI's assistant...
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee
Barack Obama on Sunday urged the party's credentials committee to give
a full vote to the defrocked state delegations from Florida and
Michigan - a move that could heal the lingering, deep divisions with
narrowly defeated rival Hillary Clinton. In a letter to the
panel released by his...
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The New York Post reports that Carla Katz, the former girlfriend of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, is under federal investigationHaving a subpoena, investigators from the Newark US Attorney's Strike Force unit hit the Washington DC head quarters of the Communications Workers of America, looking for the economic and management records...
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 In the past days, hundreds of pounds of household trash have washed onto Lake Michigan coasts, triggering to an inquiry by the Coast Guard and the temporary shutting of a pubic beach.Garbage which came ashore during Sunday night was spread along a 10-mile stretch in Mason and Manistee counties in Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula....
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday that the Bush
administration will do everything to ensure the government tools to fight terrorism
before the next president takes office.
Mukasey added that changes for FBI agents will be clear and
consistent for conducting investigations “while maintaining vital civil
liberties...
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 Long Island’s popular Jones Beach
was evacuated on Saturday after state parks officials reported that unexploded
fireworks washed up on shore subsequent to a Fourth of July show.
As soon as the firecrackers came into view, the lifeguards
and parks staffers asked the approximate 2,000 visitors to abandon the area in
order to...
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A Sacramento
couple was threatened with a $746 fine after they hadn’t watered their lawn and
let it die, for saving the water.
Matt George and Anne
Hartridge told the press that they stopped watering their lawn after California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared an emergency draught on June 4.
The citation they...
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The Chicago City Council was busy for three hours today, deciding the final
approval of Chicago Children’s Museum. The plan for this $100 million museum,
which will lie from Navy Pier to Grant Park, gave birth to many controversies
between the council’s members. However, the vote passed with 33 to 16.
Opposition leader,...
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A 78-year-old man was catapulted into the
air by a reckless driver last Friday. The driver kept on going and witnesses
continued their walk on the street. The incident was caught on video by a
surveillance camera in Hartford.
A car came speeding by and hit 78-year-old Angel
Arce Torres, catapulting him into the air. The impact...
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 Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat and patriarch of an American political dynasty, was hospitalized in Boston on Saturday after suffering a seizure at his Cape Cod vacation home.The 76-year-old senior senator from Massachusetts was stricken at the family compound in Hyannis, Mass. He was taken to the Cape Code hospital at...
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 The U.S. government listed polar bears as a threatened species Wednesday, AFP reports. The announcement was made by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne “While the legal standards under the ESA compel me to list the polar bear as threatened, I want to make clear that this listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice...
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 West Virginia
University’s Faculty
Senate made it very clear that President Mike Garrison had to step down. The
senate reckons that this is the best thing to do for the school’s reputation.
The motion demands that Garrison resign, or that the
university's Board of Governors requires his resignation. This is very unlikely
to...
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After firmly sustaining that Cole Hall, the building where
the shooting took place, should be torn down, the president of Northern Illinois University,
John G. Peters, has changed his mind after the community strongly disagreed
with his plan.
Chicago Tribune reports that more than 5,000 people provided
feedback after the...
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 “I loved her” U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean surprisingly told
a Mexican reporter when asked why he killed his colleague, a 20-year-old woman
who was eight months pregnant. Her body and that of her fetus were found later
on beneath a fire pit in Laurean’s backyard in Onslow County.
According to an FBI statement made public on...
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 U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their differences over a U.S. missile defense system based in eastern Europe but claimed they agreed a “strategic framework” to guide future U.S. – Russian relations after talks Sunday.
After their meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi,...
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 Kulbir and Amritpal Duhaliwal, the brothers who were
attacked by the Siberian tiger escaped from the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas
Day last year, have filed claims against the city for alleged negligence and emotional
harm and deformation. According to USA Today, San Francisco has 45 days to respond to the
claim.
The two were...
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The Marine Corps dropped charges against Lance Cpl. Stephen
Tatum, 26, who was accused of killing two Iraqi children in Haditha in 2005. He
was about to face a court martial on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
Charges were dropped in the day he was supposed to go to trial. The Marine
Corps gave him full immunity based on the...
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 Tuesday, March 25, two workers were killed and five others
were injured when a section of a construction crane collapsed and fell on a
building that a contractor used for storage. This was the second crane accident
in the last 10 days. A similar accident in New York killed seven people. It happened on
March 16, when a 20-story crane...
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 Thousand of pages of Hillary Clinton’s schedules for her
eight years in the White House will be released after months of delaying making
them public, the Associated Press reports.
The National Archives announced on Tuesday that 11,046 pages
of the first lady’s schedule would be available for public due to...
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 United States President George W. Bush made it clear on Thursday that if the House Democrat leaders send their new version of the terrorist-surveillance bill to him, he will veto it. Bush labeled the new version as "a partisan bill" that would undermine the country’s security. The President and House Republicans maintained that...
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 The World Trade Center’s Survivors' Stairway, a symbol of survival of the 9/11 terrorist attack, was moved on Sunday on Vesey Street. During the 9/11 terrorist attack, the 37-step staircase was used by many escaping workers of the WTC to get out of the crumbling building. The staircase, the only structure left intact after the Twin...
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 A man made flood will be set up in the Grand Canyon by federal agencies. Such controlled floods had been released before in 1996 and 2004 and their main purpose is to refresh the canyon’s ecosystem. The flood release will begin Wednesday morning as a three-day torrent of water will be released from Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah...
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The body of an infant was found recently on the side of a road
in Galveston, the Texas state police launching a search for the baby’s father.
Investigators managed to identify the infant’s father and
are now searching for the 21-year-old man, who has been called “a person of
interest” in the investigation.
Police...
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 Florida voters were heading to polling stations on Tuesday, as election officials expected a record number of electors to participate in the state’s presidential primary.As polls opened at 7:00 am (1200 GMT), Republican candidates crossed their fingers and hoped the Florida primary will offer them a clear advantage in the race for the...
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's top aide announced Monday she is leaving her office in the wake of a sex scandal.In her letter of resignation, Christine Beatty said it was "clear that I can no longer effectively carry out" the duties of her post, The Detroit News reported.Beatty, Kilpatrick's friend from high school, and the...
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 US authorities arrested a California teenager for plotting
to hijack a jetliner from Los Angeles to Nashville, an FBI spokesman said.
The 16-year-old boy was detained at Nashville International Airport by police officers after he boarded Southwest Airlines Flight 284, the spokesperson informed."His stated intent was to hijack...
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 Arizona Senator John McCain picked up key momentum Saturday in his bid
to become the Republican presidential nominee, but there was still no
clear frontrunner in the crowded centre-right pack.
McCain picked up 33 per cent of the vote in the first state in the
socially conservative South to weigh in on the presidential...
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 With no clear leader yet to emerge in the bid for their party's
nominations, US presidential contenders face key tests in South
Carolina and Nevada later Saturday as they scramble for their party's
presidential nomination.
Most of the focus will be on the centre-right Republicans in South
Carolina, the first southern state in the...
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 US President George W Bush sternly warned Iran on Wednesday of "serious consequences" if it attacks US warships in the Gulf.
"We have made it clear publicly, and they know our position, and
that is, there will be serious consequences if they attack our ships,
pure and simple. And my advice to them is don't do...
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 The tiger who killed a visitor at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas
Day was the same animal that seriously injured a zookeeper in December
2006, media reports said Wednesday.
The 4-year-old tiger Tatiana severely injured two other visitors
before being shot to death by four police officers who had to distract
her from the last of...
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 Instead of a “clear for takeoff” signal, thousands of
holiday travelers at Logan International Airport faced canceled flights and
long delays yesterday, with some trapped in planes on the tarmac for hours, as
the third snowstorm in eight days hit Greater Boston.
Like the previous Thursday's 10-inch storm, which plunged
Greater...
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 Senator Barack Obama, who is waging a fierce battle for the Democratic
presidential nomination, Saturday said his drug use as a teenager was
not "relevant" to his bid for the White House.
"I do think that the average American believes that what somebody
does when they were a teenager 30 years ago is probably not...
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European champions Spain remain top of the world football rankings issued Wednesday by the world governing body FIFA while Turkey jumped three places to move into the top 10.
Spain finish 2008 well clear of Euro 2008 finalists Germany while the Netherlands leapfrog World Champions Italy into third spot.
Brazil remain fifth,...
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Glasgow (dpa) - Diego Maradona has dismissed suggestions that his Argentina team struggled to a 1-0 friendly international victory over Scotland in his first game in charge.
Maxi Rodriguez scored the only goal of the game Wednesday evening after eight minutes at the end of a slick passing move involving Carlos Tevez and Jonas...
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Liverpool moved clear at the top of the table, for a few hours at least, with a 2-0 win at Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League table.
Dirk Kuyt and Steven Gerrard scored the goals to put Liverpool three points clear of Chelsea, who play away to bottom side West Bromwich Albion later on Saturday.
Liverpool dominated the...
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Brazilian football legend Pele made clear his scepticism as to the likelihood that Diego Maradona might be successful as coach of Argentina's senior team.
"Great stars, great players do not usually make good coaches. And sometimes a footballer that was not so brilliant in his career becomes a great coach," Pele noted, in...
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A good showing in the Champions League may have signalled the end of a bad run for struggling giants Juventus ahead of a city derby they play late Saturday with Torino.
The injury plagued black-whites beat guests Real Madrid 2-1 in mid-week despite a massive injury list that includes top-notch players like goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon,...
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The future of Olympic football is still up in the air, pending a meeting between IOC President Jacques Rogge and FIFA President Joseph Blatter.
"We still have not discussed the issue with FIFA. We have not scheduled a meeting, but we will schedule one in the future," Rogge said in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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UEFA's decision is final that Poland and Ukraine will host Euro 2012, the head of Poland's football association Michal Listkiewicz said on Friday after UEFA decided to keep the two nations as co-hosts of the football championship.
"This ends any speculation on the possibility of taking this tournament away from us,"...
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German Football Federation (DFB) president Theo Zwanziger Monday called for end to a dispute between captain Michael Ballack and team manager Oliver Bierhoff.
The dispute has been simmering since the Euro 2008 final in Vienna at the end of June after an altercation on the pitch following the 1-0 defeat to Spain.
Zwanziger told...
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Some of Europe's biggest teams will be seeking to secure passage into the lucrative group stage of the Champions League in the return legs of the third qualifying round on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Spanish and Italian giants Barcelona and Juventus look well placed to advance after comfortable 4-0 wins at home two weeks ago.
Barcelona,...
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Angel Di Maria scored the only goal of the game Saturday as Argentina successfully defended their Olympic football title, beating Nigeria 1-0 in the gold medal match played in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium.
A near capacity crowd of 89,000 saw Benfica's Di Maria latch onto a defence-splitting pass from Barcelona star Lionel Messi on 58...
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The Football Federation of Cambodia is up in arms over widespread reports of hairy-legged, mustachioed players taking the field in the first nationwide under-15 championships, the federation's secretary general said Tuesday.
Cambodia has been named one of the most corrupt countries in Asia by the Berlin-based watchdog group...
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Two recent European champions in Liverpool and Spanish giants Barcelona face tricky opponents as they attempt to negotiate their way safely through the last qualifying stage of the Champions League in first leg matches on Wednesday.
Barcelona, who won the title in 2006, come up against Polish champions Wisla Krakow while Liverpool,...
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 The Chicago Bears decided it’s in their best interest to let Tank Johnson go after his latest scrap with the law. Not even Tank had a hard time understanding that his former team did what they had to do."I want to thank the Bears organization and fans for their support during this difficult time," Johnson said in a statement...
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