American officials have found some supporters within President Hamid Karzai?s administration of their push to spray herbicide on opium poppies, officials said.
They say politics makes strange bedfellows. Well, try a dire sickness. That's what Democratic strategist, CNN analyst, and Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign boss Donna Brazile found during a series of medical emergencies that sidelined her.
The coming end of the baseball season is sad for many but especially for hardball fans in the presidential election world where night broadcasts and box scores provide a little break from their 24-7 routine.
AP - The residents Tyler Peterson was hired to protect and serve can't understand how the 20-year-old who shot six of their young people and critically injured another could have passed a background check to become a sheriff's deputy.
AP - In a race run in scorching heat that left one man dead, Kenya's Patrick Ivuti won the Chicago Marathon by a fraction of a second Sunday. At least 49 runners were taken to hospitals and another 250 were treated at the site.
AP - When U.S. sentries fatally shot three guards near an Iraqi-manned checkpoint south of Baghdad, they thought they were targeting enemy fighters planting roadside bombs, according to the American commander of the region.
A 20-year-old off-duty sheriff's deputy shot and killed six people at an early-morning party in Wisconsin, police said. The deputy died after being tracked down by his fellow officers. Among the victims at the party was 14-year-old Lindsey Stahl. "I don't want to believe it," her mother said.