The disclosure that Sarah Palin?s teenage daughter was pregnant was one of several revelations that called into question how thoroughly John McCain had screened her.
AP - A weaker-than-expected Gustav swirled into the fishing villages and oil-and-gas towns of Louisiana's Cajun country Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that did little more than send water sloshing harmlessly over its rebuilt floodwalls.
AP - Republicans, determined to propel John McCain to the White House, opened their storm-shortened national convention on Monday amid distractions involving running mate Sarah Palin. Police made more than 250 arrests in the surrounding streets as anti-war protests turned violent.
AP - Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mishandled highly classified notes about a secret counterterror program, but not on purpose, according to a memo by his legal team.
Gustav downgraded to tropical stormSeven U.S. deaths linked to storm, officials sayPower knocked out for 800,000 in Louisiana2 million evacuees urged not to return yet
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has declared a state of emergency in the wake of brutal protests in the country, state television said Tuesday.