Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture, while some of her advisers acknowledged privately that they remained unsure about the future of her candidacy.
Rumors of a Texas-style police crackdown are among the constants of life in the heartland of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
AP - Barack Obama's march toward the Democratic presidential nomination picked up support from four more superdelegates Wednesday, pushing him ever closer to victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton — even as their primary marathon staggered on.
AP - The Pentagon readied people and equipment for an aid mission to cyclone-stricken Myanmar, but the top U.S. diplomat in the Asian nation said its military junta was "paranoid" about accepting American help.
AP - Her money drained and her options dwindling, a resolute Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to press on with her presidential bid even as she and top advisers were hard-pressed to describe a realistic path for her to wrest the nomination from Barack Obama.
The Olympic flame has reached the top of the world, carried to the summit of Mount Everest by climbers wearing oxygen masks to breathe in the thin air. By successfully carrying the flame to Earth's highest point, China completed one of the promises it made to stage the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
The situation in cyclone-devastated Myanmar is becoming "more and more horrendous" and the death toll in the nation's delta region alone could top 100,000, said Shari Villarosa, the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar.