As the world clamors for more corn, wheat, soybeans and rice, farmers are trying to meet the challenge. But evidence suggests harvests will be average at best.
Senator Barack Obama?s attack on Senator John McCain?s economic policies was a move to define the general election campaign by focusing on the economy as the central theme.
AP - Barack Obama ramped up his search for a running mate on Monday, consulting with one congressional ally by phone and dispatching members of his vice presidential vetting team to the Capitol for meetings. Sen. Dick Durbin said he had spoken with Obama, his fellow Illinois senator.
AP - Flash floods inundated a southwest Wisconsin town Monday for the second time in 10 months, while 60 miles away an embankment along a man-made lake gave way, unleashing a powerful current that ripped homes off their foundations.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama on Monday seized on heightened concerns about the economy, tying John McCain to the Bush administration's recent record of soaring gasoline prices and slumping employment.
Barack Obama said Monday that lawmakers should inject another $50 billion immediately into the sluggish U.S. economy, CNNMoney.com reports. "Such relief can't wait until the next president takes office," he told a North Carolina crowd on the first day of what is to be a two-week economic tour around the country.
Prime Minister Han Seung-soo and the entire South Korean cabinet offered to resign Tuesday amid an uproar over an unpopular deal to resume importing U.S. beef, the Yonhap news agency reported.