AP - South Carolina's governor once cited "moral legitimacy" when he was a congressman voting for President Bill Clinton's impeachment. He became a darling of fiscal conservatives over his ideological opposition to federal stimulus cash.
AP - Iran's opposition leader pledged Thursday not to withdraw his election challenge despite what he said were attempts to isolate and discredit him, while the declared winner of the vote, hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused President Barack Obama of meddling in Iran's affairs.
Search crews have recovered the bodies of the flight captain and a steward from the Air France flight that crashed off the coast of Brazil on June 1. The two flight members are among the victims that have been identified, Air France said in a statement Thursday. About a dozen victims have been identified among roughly 50 bodies recovered. Crews continue to search for bodies, wreckage and flight-data recorders.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford told the woman with whom he was having an affair that they were "in a hopelessly impossible situation of love." According to The State newspaper, Sanford e-mailed the comments last July to a Buenos Aires, Argentina, woman named "Maria." At the time, Sanford thought he was under consideration for the Republican vice presidential nomination.
African-Americans really like President Obama, but more and more feel that race relations have not gotten better since he took office, a new national poll found.