San Francisco earthquake strikes again: a second earthquake struck San Francisco just six hours after the first. Both quakes occured almost 22 year to the day after the deadly Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989.
Harold Camping has captured the attention of the media again, but this time is avoiding lime light. Camping, who predicted the end of the world twice in the past, says this time he's right. Camping blames a mix-up in his biblical math for his previous two predictions that never came true.
Unemployment claims still above 400,000, though four-week average now at six-month low. Unemployment claims need to drop to 375,000 to signal stronger job growth.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - Dragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, a wounded Moammar Gadhafi raised his hands and begged revolutionary fighters: "Don't kill me, my sons." Within an hour, he was dead, but not before jubilant Libyans had vented decades of hatred by pulling the eccentric dictator's hair and parading his bloodied body on the hood of a truck.
AP - During nearly 42 years in power, Moammar Gadhafi ruled with an eccentric brutality. He was so mercurial he turned Libya into an isolated pariah, then an oil power courted by the West, then back again. At home, his whims became law and his visions became a warped dictatorship, until he was finally toppled by his own people.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says militants have operated from Pakistani soil for too long and should not be tolerated or protected.
Thai government officials are bracing for the possible onslaught of flood waters today as the capital city of Bangkok secures its floodwalls. The floodwalls are the last line of defense in the government's effort to protect Bangkok and spare the capital's 9 million residents.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three immigrant women who were allegedly sexually assaulted while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas, the American Civil Liberties Union said this week.
Dictators around the Middle East should pay close attention to the fate of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, opposition activists from Syria and Yemen said Thursday as reports of Gadhafi's death flashed across the world.