Laborers from across the country have returned to their native Sichuan Province, where many elderly Chinese have refused to leave devastated - and still at risk - villages.
Barack Obama is poised to have a majority of pledged delegates after balloting in Kentucky and Oregon, but the situation is delicate as he tries to unify his party.
The messy process of trying to purge John McCain?s campaign of conflicts of interest has so far focused only more attention on the backgrounds of his advisers.
AP - Barack Obama will reach a significant milestone Tuesday as he marches toward the Democratic nomination for president — a majority of pledged delegates at stake in all the primaries and caucuses.
AP - Rescuers pulled a 31-year-old man to safety Tuesday after he was trapped for more than a week in a flattened power plant near the epicenter of last week's earthquake in central China, while the region remained jittery over warnings of aftershocks.
AP - A top strategist for Barack Obama has reached out to Hillary Rodham Clinton's former campaign manager about joining forces for the general election, the latest sign of political reconciliation between the two rivals as Obama begins consolidating his position as the likely Democratic nominee.
A 31-year-old man was pulled out of the debris of a flattened power plant Tuesday after being trapped for nearly 179 hours after the May 12 earthquake, China's state-run news agency reported. The building was near the epicenter of the quake that struck the country's Sichuan province.
A U.S. anti-drug aircraft strayed into Venezuelan airspace, the United States acknowledged today, ratcheting up tensions between the two nations. A U.S. official said the Navy S-3 Viking aircraft had a "navigation error," but Venezuela's defense minister called it a "conscious action." "We do have the equipment to confront them and to cover all of our airspace," he said.
Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is sinking billions of dollars into a new wind farm in Texas. It is likely to become the biggest in the world, producing enough power for the equivalent of 1.3 million homes. CNN's Ali Velshi asked the oil legend why he thinks wind could be the answer to this country's energy problems: