Senator Ted Stevens, the Senate?s longest-serving Republican, was found guilty of violating ethics laws for failing to report gifts and services that he was given by friends.
The operation appeared to reflect an effort by the Bush administration to find a way to attack militants even beyond the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan.
AP - Ted Stevens, a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday — found guilty of accepting a bonanza of home renovations and fancy trimmings from an oil executive and then lying about it.
AP - Fading in the polls, John McCain fought Barack Obama for support in economically hard-hit Ohio on Monday, each man pledging to right the economy and turn the page on the Bush era in a state with an impressive record for picking presidents.
AP - The government has cleared the way to ship out $125 billion this week to the country's largest banks, beginning the biggest government bailout in history.
Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson has a new movie and a recently released debut solo album, but it's a family tragedy that has thrust the 27-year-old actress and singer back into the public eye. Hudson's mother and brother were found shot to death Friday in their Chicago home. The body of the singer's missing 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, was found in an SUV on Monday morning.
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska vowed to fight his conviction on federal corruption charges, a verdict he attributed to "repeated instances of prosecutorial misconduct." The verdict came days before the Senate's longest-serving Republican is to face voters in a neck-and-neck re-election bid. He vowed to get the trial's results overturned and added, "I remain a candidate for the United States Senate."