Senator Barack Obama, the likely Democratic nominee, has asked for full voting rights for the delegations who had been stripped of some of their votes.
Many hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because nursing homes won?t accept them without insurance.
AP - Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago.
AP - South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War.
A stampede in a crowded mountaintop Hindu temple killed at least 145 people today, officials in northern India said. Witnesses and authorities had varying accounts of what caused the morning stampede at the Naina Devi Temple in Himachal Pradesh state. The incident came during the second day of a nine-day religious festival at the temple.
Al Qaeda ended days of speculation today by confirming that one of its chemical weapons experts was killed last week along with three other "heroes," according to a statement posted on a radical Islamist Web site.