If Congress fails to increase tax revenues and cut costly programs, the federal deficit promises to be more than $1 trillion a year for the next decade.

With temperatures of 120 degrees, little electricity, and an expected increase in politically linked religious fervor around the Muslim holy month, Ramadan could bring a spike in Iraq attacks.

President Paul Kagame's international image has morphed in recent months from model, pro-business African leader to iron-fisted strongman. But his tight control on dissent is nothing new.

AP - Rescuers lifted muddy bodies into trucks, and aid convoys choked the road into the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing Monday from landslides caused by heavy rain that has flooded swaths of Asia and spread misery to millions.

AP - Federal agents on Monday captured one of the two convicted killers who escaped from an Arizona prison in Wyoming, and were still searching for the other inmate and a suspected accomplice.

AP - The Defense Department plans to shed one of its 10 major military commands as Defense Secretary Robert Gates tries to pare billions from the Pentagon budget, officials briefed on the plan said Monday.