Israel says it is keeping Gaza's border crossings closed in retaliation for a rocket attack. Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner says all cargo passages remained shut Friday morning.
Iran delivered its response Friday to an international offer ofincentives for it to suspend uranium enrichment, a central part of itsnuclear program, state television reported.
From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world's growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies that study the planet.
President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday inwelcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello,saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."
A ferocious wildire continued creeping closer to Big Sur Friday, after jumping a fire line and claiming more homes. An extended evacuation order now includes both sides of a 39-mile section of state Highway 1.
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines ofracial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasionalfellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on theFourth of July.
The disgraced architect of Pakistan's nuclear program said Friday thatit provided centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised bythe army under President Pervez Musharraf.
A federal judge said that President Bush does not have theconstitutional authority to overstep the law establishing thegovernment's ability to conduct warrantless wiretaps on Americancitizens.
In the wake of Sen. Barack Obama's decision last month to bypass public financing for the general election, his campaign is embarking on a spree of pricey fundraising events across the country.
The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at GuantanamoBay could end up walking on U.S. streets as a result of last month'sSupreme Court ruling about detainees' legal rights. Federal appealscourts, however, have indicated they have no intention of letting
A ferry sank in a river in Myanmar's cyclone-battered Irrawaddy delta, killing nearly 40 people, state-media reported Friday. Themotorized ship sank in the Yway river Tuesday after water entered itsstern section, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported. The reportdid
President Bush will attend the opening ceremonies of Olympics in Beijing. While there was no question the president would attend the OlympicGames in August, his plans for the opening ceremonies had not beenconfirmed until now.
An internal State Department investigative report suggests thatemployees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebritiesfar more than previously disclosed, and urges new steps to secure thefiles.
Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week toinclude all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beefbetween May 16 and June 26.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that ashake-up in the leadership of his campaign was part of a "naturalevolution" as the organization becomes more national in scope.
Military officials say three U.S. hostages rescued from leftist guerrillas in Colombia are in good condition. The military updated reporters Thursday on the condition of contractorsMarc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell. They had been held byrebels since their drug-surveillance
