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Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, died Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Born: Sept. 10, 1949, Cleveland Education: Collinwood High School, Cleveland Case...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's show time for Barack Obama and John McCain, with back-to-back presidential nominating conventions offering them tightly-scripted spectacles designed to polish their images and highlight their messages.
A portrait of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin looms over Russian soldiers in Tskhinvali,in South Ossetia, Wednesday. (DDmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press) Russian troops linger in Georgia : Despite a pledge by Moscow to withdraw...
—Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for discussions with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top Iraqi officials, hoping to iron out remaining differences in a U.S.-Iraq security deal that...
By Sutin Wannabovorn, Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — Disgraced rocker Gary Glitter arrived back in Bangkok on Thursday after Hong Kong denied him entry, continuing a two-day odyssey that began when he was released from a...
The stocks are swooning, but the feds are understandably in no hurry to own the whole U.S. mortgage business. The frenzied trading in shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seems to assume the government will soon ride to the...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Assassinated Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's widower emerged on Thursday as a likely candidate to become the next president as a split loomed in the ruling coalition led by his party. Investors...
Senator’s emergence highlights Obama’s challenges in the presidential race Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., drives up to his home in Greenville, Del., on Wednesday. Sen. Joe Biden's emergence at the center of speculation about who will...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States and Iraq are close to a deal extending the presence of U.S. troops beyond 2008, but any timetable for their withdrawal must be "feasible", U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on...
