Employers eliminated 4,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said today, showing that the job market was soft even as conditions in credit markets began to deteriorate.
Gen. David H. Petraeus wants to keep heightened troop levels in Iraq well into next year, but could accept the pullback of one brigade in January, officials say.
Rudy Giuliani has staked his campaign on the idea that he will keep America safe from terror the same way he kept New York City safe from crime ? with ruthless efficiency. Is there a method to his relentlessness?
Death by Chocolate, the name of a fancy and pricey cookie, was supposed to emit a rich, luxurious, flavorful image. But with an FDA recall, it's another image that's in the spotlight.
AP - A new video of Osama bin Laden makes no overt threats against the United States and appears to have been made as recently as this summer, a government official said Friday.
AP - The mother of a British girl whose disappearance sparked an international search is considered a suspect in the case, friends and family said Friday. The girl's aunt said police suggested 4-year-old Madeleine McCann might have been killed accidentally and offered the mother a plea deal if she confessed.
AP - In an unexpected twist of events, President Bush's bout of diplomacy in Asia hit a snag in dealings with longtime ally South Korea and drew a conciliatory gesture from "Axis of Evil" member North Korea.
Franky left behind three mothers and about three dozen siblings when he walked away from the polygamous sect of Warren Jeffs. He is one of the so-called "lost boys," teens and young men who struggle to adapt to the outside world. "I couldn't have done it without the drugs," Franky told CNN's Dan Simon.
The U.S. government is analyzing a videotape that appears to show Osama bin Laden, according to a U.S. official. The assessment will include whether it is really bin Laden and if the tape is old or new, according to the source.
Police today named Madeleine McCann's mother Kate a suspect in her daughter's disappearance, and said the girl's blood was found in a vehicle the family rented 25 days after reporting her missing, according to a family spokeswoman.
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