President Bush reached a new low on Independence Day in an incredible speech to an invitation-only crowd of Air National Guard families in West Virginia. That kind of gathering ensures no protesters inside the hall to disrupt our leader's line of thought.
Bush talked again about victory in Iraq. He meant military, of course, and not a political settlement. He is almost alone in sticking to the military solution. He then went further in declaring that the United States must defeat "al Qaeda in Iraq."
A new study presents what may be a more accurate model for predicting breast cancer in women diagnosed with a condition that often presages that malignancy. The finding is good news for doctors seeking to develop risk-reduction strategies for the condition, called atypical hyperplasia or atypia, which causes an abnormal increase in the number of cells in breast tissue.
AP - As a heat wave made parched terrain even drier, wildfires dotted the West on Saturday, forcing authorities to evacuate homes and close highways and wilderness areas.
AP - A suicide truck bomber blasted a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 100 people, police said, in a sign Sunni insurgents are pulling away from a U.S. offensive around the capital to attack where security is thinner.
AP - The city where a terrorist attack destroyed the World Trade Center towers has again been stiffed in the distribution of federal anti-terrorism funding, members of the state's congressional delegation complained Saturday.
The new seven wonders of the world were named Saturday following an online vote that generated server-crushing traffic in its final hours. Organizers said more than 90 million votes had been cast for 21 sites.
A truck laden with two tons of explosives detonated Saturday at an outdoor market in a northern Iraqi village, killing at least 117 people and injuring hundreds more. Witnesses say there are people trapped in the rubble.