Arrivederci Italy! The 2006 champs finished last in World Cup Group F and exited the tournament with a 3-2 loss to Slovakia. The Slovakia team moves on to the next round.
Willie Nelson, Tupac Shakur, and Creole Jazz were included by the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry, highlighting 'diverse beauty, humanity and artistry" of the American soundscape.
Ruling for two corporate executives in prison for fraud, the Supreme Court dramatically narrowed the scope of a law often used by federal prosecutors in corruption cases.
Gen. David H. Petraeus is being called to Afghanistan at a moment similar to the one he faced three years ago in Iraq, when the situation seemed hopeless to many.
AP - President Barack Obama declared Thursday that he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have "succeeded in resetting" the relationship between the former Cold War adversaries that had dipped to a dangerous low in recent years.
AP - A cap was back in place on BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most effective method so far for containing some of the massive spill.
AP - Mortgage rates fell this week to the lowest level on records dating to 1971, giving consumers added incentive to lock in low payments for home purchases and refinanced loans.
A special anti-terrorism court closed to observers and presided over by a single judge convicted five young American men today of planning to launch attacks in Pakistan. The Americans -- all from Virginia and all Muslim -- were sentenced to 10-year jail terms in this rural county for criminal conspiracy to attack Pakistan and for providing funds to banned terrorist organizations. Their lawyers said they will appeal, and predicted a higher court will see the evidence as thin.
An explosion of drug violence in Mexico could erupt across the U.S. border with cartel bosses now threatening to retaliate against officers in Nogales, Arizona, for carrying out an off-duty marijuana bust. The threat represents a new twist in an increasingly bloody war between Mexican authorities and regional drug cartels that have largely acted with impunity south of the border
A federal judge has denied the administration's request to stay his ruling lifting a moratorium on offshore drilling until an appeals court could review the case.
Gen. David Petraeus told CNN on Thursday that he supports President Barack Obama's July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, a key point of contention between the president and many of his Republican critics in Congress.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates backed keeping Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the job because he was vital to the war effort in Afghanistan, but he was overruled, a senior Pentagon official told CNN.
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