Cities with long-established public transit systems and areas with a strong driving culture are both reporting increases in ridership of buses and trains.
Six days after a cyclone struck Myanmar, it was clear that the damage was great and that little aid had made it to villagers along the sea south of Yangon.
AP - The Pentagon is recommending changes in the handling of troops' remains, after it was revealed that a crematorium contracted by the military handles both human and animal cremations.
AP - Voting began this city near Yangon and other parts of cyclone-ravaged Mayanmar Saturday on a referendum for a controversial constitution — but the balloting was delayed for two weeks in the hardest hit areas, including the capital.
AP - Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.
Of the 148,000 U.S. Army barracks inspected nationwide, 45 barracks at eight Army posts "were found to need immediate attention," according to Army officials. The inspections come after reports of substandard living conditions in some barracks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
A Navy admiral engaged in sexual relations in the White House in 1990 with a federal employee whom he falsely told he was a widower, according to a report released Friday by the Defense Department.