The BBC invited Nick Griffin, leader of the whites-only British National Party, to its flagship political show Thursday. The move is meeting sharp criticism from a broad range of critics, including former military leaders.
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is leaning toward including a government-run health insurance plan in a health care bill he will soon take to the Senate floor, Democratic senators said Thursday.
Hours after the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the owners had improperly raised rents, some landlords canceled deals, and tenants were concerned about their rents.
AP - Senior Senate Democrats at work with White House officials on health care legislation are strongly considering a requirement for the federal government to sell insurance in direct competition with private industry, officials said Thursday, with individual states permitted to drop out of the system.
AP - The White House on Thursday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republicans that President Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision is taking too long.
AP - After 7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished on her way home from school, investigators tailed nine garbage trucks from her neighborhood to a Georgia landfill nearly 50 miles away, then methodically picked through the trash as each rig spilled its load.
"Marta" was 12 when came to the U.S. illegally to find her mother. She's typical of the 7,211 children known to have entered the U.S. illegally in 2008 all by themselves. They come searching for family members or a way out of poverty, and with little understanding of the legal ramifications they face. Last year, up to 50 percent of the children detained went before judges with no lawyer.
Senate Democratic leaders met Thursday night with White House officials to consider including a government-funded public health insurance option, along with a provision allowing states to opt out of it, in a health care overhaul bill.
The body of a small girl found in a south Georgia landfill has been identified as that of a missing 7-year-old Florida girl, Clay County, Florida, Sheriff Rick Beseler said Thursday morning.