Lowe's Cos. Inc. avoided joining the home-building industry's walking wounded this morning, reporting record earnings for the quarter and beating some of Wall Street's expectations. But the world's second-largest home improvement chain retailer, behind only Home Depot, still showed some vulnerability to a wobbly housing market.
Thanksgiving is a holiday that reminds Americans about the true joys of living in this wonderful country. A Chinese immigrant friend of mine captured it with charming awkwardness when he referred to the holiday as "Thank-you-giving."
AP - The United States should push for available and trained Iraqi security forces to be sent to the front lines of the fight to stabilize the wartorn country, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter said Monday.
AP - Gunmen shot and killed a television comedian Monday who was famous for mocking everyone from the Iraqi government to U.S. forces to Shiite militias to Sunni insurgents.
AP - President Bush said Monday he isn't ready to decide between rival calls to increase or scale back U.S. troops in Iraq. Unruffled by street protests against his policy, he said they were a healthy sign of democracy in this Muslim nation.
At least two high school students were killed when a school bus plunged 30 feet off the side of a highway overpass in Huntsville, Alabama, according to local officials. "The students, when they were hurled over the side of I-565 ... they were just tossed around inside the school bus," police spokesman Wendell Johnson said.
This is where we've arrived in this country: You have the constitutional right to burn an American flag, but you can get into trouble for simply flying a foreign one.