David Cameron urges a "forensic, relentless approach" to ensuring the UK's future economic growth, but Labour says the government lacks a business plan.
President Obama won't be endorsing Frank Caprio, the Democrat running for Rhode Island governor, and the candidate didn't hold back in a radio spot Monday morning.
The Proposition 23 ballot initiative in California is a chance for a grass-roots expression on climate change -- and to send a signal to a stymied Congress.
Anonymously financed groups are starting a coordinated final push to deliver control of Congress to Republicans, shifting money among some 80 races they are monitoring.
Voters in Larimer County, which will play a pivotal role in Colorado’s elections, express hard-to-pin-down moods and seek reassurance about their direction.
AP - Federal banking regulators are examining whether mortgage companies cut corners on their own procedures when they moved to foreclose on people's homes, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday.
AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that once or twice a year, Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses and that Washington also provides "bags of money" because his office lacks funds.
AP - The Democratic candidate for Rhode Island governor, widely seen as more conservative than the independent seeking to lead the heavily Democratic state, said Monday that President Barack Obama can "shove it" after learning Obama would not endorse him.
The mayor of a seaside town in the Naples area of Southern Italy has shot to national fame -- and been ridiculed in cyberspace -- after announcing that he would ban what he deems anti-social behavior to raise standards of public decency. If the regulations are approved at today's city council meeting in Castellammare di Stabia, local police will fine anyone in town wearing revealing clothes: miniskirts, low-cut jeans or deep-plunging blouses.
A Canadian accused of killing an American soldier as a teenage al-Qaida militant pleaded guilty Monday as part of a deal that avoids a war crimes trial for someone labeled a "child soldier" by his defenders.
The man charged in the 2001 killing of intern Chandra Levy is on trial today. The case got huge publicity because of Levy's alleged affair with a congressman.
Authorities in northeast Texas were assessing damage Monday morning after a possible tornado destroyed homes, knocked train cars off their track and injured at least four people.
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