President Bush?s final State of the Union address will focus on the economy, as Mr. Bush himself suggested Friday during a short preview of the speech at a Congressional Republican retreat.
Virtually every square foot of this capital city is owned by the socialist state, but the people of Havana are as obsessed with real estate as, say, condo-crazy New Yorkers.
AP - Republican Mitt Romney sought to lock up the Florida primary by refusing to talk Sunday about little else but the economic jitters confronting the nation. His rivals took different tacks toward the same goal as they fanned out across the Sunshine State.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday that his landslide win in South Carolina's presidential primary marks a turn in political history, showing that a black candidate can appeal to voters of all colors and in all regions.
AP - Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800.
In a fatal miscalculation, Saddam Hussein let the world think he had weapons of mass destruction as a way to appear strong and to intimidate his foes, according to an FBI agent who interviewed the dictator after his 2003 capture.
With fear of an impending recession, President Bush on Monday night will use his State of the Union address to revisit unfinished business and press for action to keep the economy afloat, administration officials say.