One week after Sen. Hillary Clinton made a public show of unity with Sen. Barack Obama, a new survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead.

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Video secretly recorded by a Zimbabwean prison guard appears to show evidence of vote-rigging in the country's recent presidential runoff election.

The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands of acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions.

When Robert Mugabe told security officials he had lost Zimbabwe's presidential election and planned to give up power, a top general responded the choice was not Mugabe's alone to make.

Democrat Barack Obama's appeal to  centrist voters has further opened the door to Republican claims his message of change only applies to the positions he has taken in the past.

The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.

France's central bank announced Friday that it has fined Societe Generale $6.3 million for "serious shortcomings" that led to nearly $7.8 billion in trading losses announced earlier this year.

The Wesley Clark affair revealed something important about John McCain. Now we know what a McCain administration would represent: namely, a third term for Karl Rove.

Barack Obama’s shifts are striking because he was the candidate who proposed to change the face of politics. Yet now there seems to be a new Mr. Obama on the hustings.

One of the most remarkable of this year’s new college graduates, Beatrice Biira, credits her success to something utterly improbable: a goat.

Great restaurants, excellent shopping, breakthrough galleries and prestigious museums make this city of 89 distinct neighborhoods a hip destination.

Hired during an expansion in higher education, baby boomers are being replaced by a new generation.

Associated Press - Found 1 hour agoKANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants ...

New York Times - Found 19 hours agoThe word privacy now appears on Googles home page, with a link to the companys privacy policy. With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the ...

International Herald Tribune - Found 3 hours agoBIG SUR, California: A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest ...

The Detroit Free Press - Found 1 hour agoAmerican Airlines parent AMR Corp. will record costs of almost $1.3 billion in the second quarter to reduce the value of aircraft it will park and to ...

Washington Post - Found 13 hours agoBUTTE, Montana (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama mixed presidential politics with parades and barbecue on U.S. Independence Day on Friday, ...

AccuWeather.com senior meteorologist Jim Kosek brings you his forecast for the holiday weekend's worst weather. Which town wins this week's dubious distinction?

The Washington Post leads with an inside account of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's brutal crackdown in the aftermath of his apparent defeat in the country's March election. Based on minutes from...

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No discussion of how men and women think can avoid a mention of Harvard's ex-president Larry Summers. When he speculated in 2005 that intrinsic cognitive differences might partly account for women's u...

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There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the cer...

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Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish island of Samsø. He is a beefy man with a mop of brown hair and an unpredictable sense of humor. When I arrived at his house, one gray mor...

Dubus’s follow-up to “House of Sand and Fog” is inspired by the rumored visit of 9/11 hijackers to a strip club shortly before their attacks. In the fictional Puma Club, in Sarasota,...

If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,̶...

After years of split decisions, America's highest court has found consensus on a range of issues. How John Roberts brought the Justices together...

A BBC reality show pits disabled women against each other. But is this the proper platform to confront stereotypes?

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That, at least, is the goal as Joel Stein gets a top chef to try to feed a family of four on a recession budget...

A new show about Buckminster Fuller, a visionary whose reach sometimes exceeded his grasp...

The five-term North Carolina senator retired in 2003 but left a legacy of strong conservatism — and controversy — in a state that hadn't seen a GOP senator for decades. He has died at the...

Learning English in a month, moonlighting for the FBI — the talented participants in the Braille Challenge are used to wowing people with their accomplishments. Figuring out what to wear to dan...

Shivani Dogra was overwhelmed by the squalor, stench and crowds of Mumbai when she first moved to the Indian city for work in 2003. But she eventually came to appreciate the vibrancy, and the possibil...

A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California In...

Jesse Helms' 30-year career in the U.S. Senate was marked by controversy and racial politics. The fierce advocate for segregation and king maker in North Carolina politics died Friday at the age of 86...

Environmentalists are bracing for a final battle with the Bush administration over its efforts to weaken clean water, air and ...

On a pedestal in a Texas intersection hundreds of miles from where terrorists crashed planes seven years ago, two flight attendants ...

Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said.

It's Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias' second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he'll ...

President Bush has invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Thomas ...

Colombian military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a media crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their...

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Commun...

Two historic Victorians in Old Oakland were damaged this afternoon in a three-alarm blaze apparently caused by a paint-removal heat gun, firefighters said. The fire started near the roof of a two-stor...

"Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement. Jesse Helms mostly was a polari...

Firefighters and homeowners stood their ground against flames licking their way toward Big Sur on Friday, even as increasing state and federal resources were being rerouted to other fires around the s...

In aftermath of March 29 election loss, Mugabe decides to rely on the military to prosecute a campaign against opposition, new details reveal.

Chief seeks to return agency to invisibility at the same time Congress wants to examine its conduct.

Forest Service move may speed conversion of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions.

Governor's office, concerned about unchecked development, sets stage for a statewide plan.

His popularity rating is dismally low, but president remains a force on fundraising circuit.

[My own thoughts in brackets.] The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center.

"We catch the BBC's despicable first headline before it gets changed. At the time of writing, more details are emerging on today's (Wednesday July 2) terror attack on Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Street th...

Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, a leading conservative from North Carolina who served five terms in the Senate before retiring in 2003, has died, the Jesse Helms Center said Friday. He was 86.

4th of July...

Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide.

New evidence of vote-rigging in Zimbabwe's presidential election emerges in a secret film by a prison guard.

Colombia releases video of the audacious raid that freed hostage Ingrid Betancourt, as she returns to France.

A man is arrested in connection with the murder of two French students who were stabbed and burned in a flat in London.

Lebanon is reported to be on the verge of announcing a new government, following months of political deadlock.

Mongolian officials are expected to lift a state of emergency imposed after last week's deadly riots over alleged electoral fraud.

(Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) waves to journalists as Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili stands in the background before an official meeting in Tehran July 1, 2008. I...

(Reuters) - People gather at central Seoul Plaza for a protest against a U.S. beef import deal and the polices of the new president, whose government has faced a crisis due to the weeks of street rall...

(Reuters) - A farmer shouts slogans during a rally to demand the full-scale renegotiation of the U.S. beef import deal and the resignation of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul July 5, 2008...

(Reuters) - Smoke billows from a chimney at a chemical factory in Tianjin municipality, neighbouring Beijing February 22, 2008. Tianjin has ordered 40 factories to shut for the Olympics, the latest dr...

(AP) - In this March 28, 2006 file photo, the Discoverer Deep Seas drill ship sits on station off the coast of Louisiana as Chevron drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. If oil or natural gas deposit...

07.04.08: Charles Gibson delivers the World News webcast.

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Raw video of the hostages in Colombia being airlifted to safety.

July 2: A Georgia teen is in jail after a disturbing video is posted online showing a baby being placed on an inflatable pillow and being launched through the air. WALB's Jennifer Emert reports. (NBC...

The FBI says that an El Dorado man forced a girl into sex slavery. CBS13 spoke with the so-called victim's mother. Laura Cole reports.

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Rises in food prices and global population, especially among the middle classes in India and China, have brought renewed respect to the philosopher of demographic catastrophe, Thomas Robert Malthus.

D.C. vs. Heller, the most sweeping gun rights decision in decades, promises to change this year's political landscape. Like a lot of liberals, I'm used to cringing when the Supreme Cour...

On his radio show, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson accused Barack Obama of "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible" and promoting a "lowest common denominator of m...

Florida offered to buy U.S. Sugar Corp. for $1.7 billion and restore 187,000 acres to the Everglades. Environmentalists are swooning over the agreement, which could restart the natural...

It's Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias' second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he'll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.

Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?

China struggled to move tons of algae from the site where sailors are to compete in the Olympics next month. Officials called in the military -- and a huge number of volunteers. How many? Find out in...

For more than 10 years, John Lotter has faced death in Nebraska's electric chair for the grisly 1993 triple murder that spawned the movie "Boys Don't Cry."...

Joey Chestnut has reclaimed the top spot as winner of the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him...

TEHRAN - Iran's ambassador in Brussels has submitted Tehran's response to an incentives package offered by six world powers over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, the official news agency IRNA r...

President George W. Bush greets a newly naturalized United States citizen during an Independence Day naturalization ceremony at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 2008 in Charlottesvill...

At least one person fired a gun into a crowd in a street early Friday, killing four people and sending panicked revelers running for cover, police said.

Authorities say two Mahopack teenagers who traveled to the site where a You Tube video was filmed are recovering after a group of angry youths threw rocks at their car.

This 4th of July, America celebrates its 232nd year of Independence, its break with the monarchy of England, and the start of a republic lead by a democratically elected president. In November, we wil...

With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active probes operated by five nations, with even more coming soon. NASA's pl...

Two world records were set yesterday in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the men's 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:05.25,...

Last month, during two weeks in May, 2008, a series of attacks took place all over South Africa. In a clash between the poorest of the poor, gangs of local black South Africans descended on informal s...

Indiana University recently hosted the 2008 USA Diving Olympic Team Trials, and the process of selecting the diving team to represent the United States is underway. (10 photos total)Troy Dumais twist...