Conservatives snapped up a Labour seat in Norwich North in a Friday by-election. Brown has turned for help to self-made billionaire Alan Sugar, putting him in the House of Lords - and naming him ???enterprise czar.???
US envoy Richard Holbrooke Thursday defended the military, which has been launching 'softening up' operations in South Waziristan for more than a month.
In an hourlong interview at the end of a trip to Thailand and India, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton underscored her message that “the United States is back.”
Christine A. Varney, and some senior lawmakers, are preparing to rein in several major industries but are finding resistance from Obama administration officials.
Iran’s opposition sent a protest letter to the religious authorities saying the state used “illegal, immoral and irreligious methods” after last month’s election.
AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin steps down Sunday giving few clues about her political future, which has been clouded by ethics probes, mounting legal bills and dwindling popularity.
AP - When the American-born al-Qaida recruit Bryant Neal Vinas was captured in Pakistan late last year, he wasn't whisked off to a military prison or a secret CIA facility in another country to be interrogated.
Crouching behind a pickup outside a McDonald's in 1984, police officer Miguel Rosario realized his .38-caliber six-shooter was no match for a killer with an Uzi semiautomatic rifle and a shotgun. The slaughter that followed led San Diego and other cities to better arm, equip and train their elite tactical officers.