The Republican Party has lined up to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
Democratic strategists are expressing grudging admiration for President Bush's latest efforts to take control over the national security issue, exemplified by his speech this week on CIA prisons, Guantánamo, and military tribunals.
U.S. homebuilder Lennar slashed its third-quarter profit estimate this morning, becoming the third major homebuilder this week to reduce its earnings forecast. Lennar is now looking for a quarterly profit of $1.25 to $1.35 per share vs. Wall Street analyst estimates of $1.81 or so. Lennar CEO Stuart Miller laid out the bad news in a statement:
Armed with polling and historical data that suggest that it will be hard--though not impossible--for Democrats to retake the House in the fall, the White House has drawn up a travel schedule for the president and his top helpers to storm the nation in a pre-election blitz for Republicans.
AP - Residents of Bermuda installed storm shutters and hauled their yachts onto beaches in preparation for Tropical Storm Florence, which intensified Saturday and was expected to become a hurricane as it approaches the North Atlantic island.
AP - A U.S. Air Force officer who went missing for three days says someone stuffed an object in her jeans pocket with a note saying it was bomb and telling her to go to a site in Bishkek, where kidnappers grabbed her, Kyrgyz authorities said Saturday.
AP - Space shuttle Atlantis thundered into orbit Saturday with no obvious damage from debris to worry NASA or the six-member crew as they prepared to resume construction of the international space station for the first time since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
A Pakistan government statement disputed what it calls a "ludicrous" CNN report that said Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who heads the religious militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is living in Pakistan.