The former governor of Massachusetts is a Mormon in full. But, facing a wary public, he has played his faith cautiously on the presidential campaign trail.
A senior British commander said that the high level of civilian casualties caused by American Special Forces was making it difficult to win over local people.
The effort to reduce the population at the detention center has been hampered by a number of diplomatic, legal and political challenges, officials say.
Amid the sharpening debate over whether or not the United States should withdraw from Iraq, a new study by the respected Rand Corp. think tank sheds some light on why Bush administration officials have been defending their controversial "surge" plan so vociferously. Put simply, the other options are all worse.
You can be forgiven if you're drowning in the flood of sports drinks now on the market. Gatorade, Accelerade, and Powerade (not to be confused with PowerBar's line of drinks) all say they can improve exercise performance and keep the athlete's body going. But how, exactly, do they do that? And who really needs them?
AP - Space shuttle Endeavour roared into orbit Wednesday carrying teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan, who was finally fulfilling the dream of Christa McAuliffe and the rest of the fallen Challenger crew.
AP - Rescue crews clinging to a mountainside struggled Wednesday to drill two narrow holes — one just 2 1/2 inches across, the other less than 9 inches — in a painfully slow effort to get air and food to six miners trapped in a cave-in.
AP - A torrential downpour sent water surging through New York's subway system and highway tunnels and across airport runways Wednesday, leaving thousands of commuters stranded and one big question: How could 3 inches of rain bring the nation's largest mass transit system to a halt?
As relatives awaited word on the conditions of the six men trapped 1,500 feet underground in a collapsed Utah mine, community members gathered in local churches to lend their support and prayers. The brother of Manuel Sanchez, one of the trapped men, said his family is hopeful but realistic.
Security is being beefed up at the site of last week's bridge collapse after 16 people were arrested for trespassing and hindering the investigation, Minneapolis police said Wednesday.
The boyfriend of the 20-year-old college coed whose decomposed body was found over the weekend in a New York University apartment building is in police custody after trying to commit suicide, authorities say.
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