Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen discussed House Democrats' strategy for the 2010 election at a May 24 Monitor Breakfast.
Investigators suspect that private Afghan security firms are using U.S. funds to bribe the Taliban and fake attacks to make their services more sought after.
The Coast Guard warned that even if the flow of oil was capped by summer, it could take until autumn to deal with the damage spreading across the gulf.
AP - A containment cap was capturing more and more of the crude pouring from a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but that bit of hope was tempered Sunday by a sharp dose of pragmatism as the federal government's point man warned the crisis could stretch into the fall.
AP - A tornado unleashed a "war zone" of destruction in northwest Ohio, destroying dozens of homes and an emergency services building as a line of storms killed at least seven people and briefly threatened the Northeast on Sunday.
Joran van der Sloot, the lone suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba, faces an "extremely rude awakening" in Peru, where he has just been jailed as a suspect in the murder of a young Peruvian woman, a top international lawyer said today.
As if the pictures of birds killed by oil in the Gulf of Mexico is not disturbing enough, scientists with the University of South Florida say they've found a second oil plume.