New York Gov. David A. Paterson, engulfed by an ethics scandal, bowed out of the 2010 governor’s race Friday, a decision that gave relief to Democrats fearful that the embattled leader threatened to cost the party a key governorship and harm other candidates across the U.S. coping with a re-energized Republican Party.
“It has become increasingly [...]
Reporting from Bogota, Colombia – The death toll is expected to rise from a devastating earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday morning and President Michelle Bachelet declared parts of her country catastrophe zones.
Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma told reporters at a midday news conference that the magnitude 8.8 quake with an epicenter 60 miles offshore [...]
MIAMI — Authorities said a body fell out of a plane that traveled to Miami from the Dominican Republic.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the body fell from the wheel well of an Amerijet cargo flight that left the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. The flight arrived in South Florida about two hours later.
Bergen [...]
Andre WatkinsA suspect in a Tampa shooting rampage that left a young woman dead and two others critically injured was captured early today after a manhunt, authorities said.
Andre Watkins, 53, was wanted in three separate shootings in Tampa on Friday. He was taken into custody after police surrounded his car while he was fueling at [...]
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MIAMI – The body of a student from a south Florida university has been recovered a month after she was reported missing in Haiti’s massive earthquake.
Lynn University officials say the U.S. Department of State contacted the family of 23-year-old Courtney Hayes Wednesday to confirm the young woman’s death. Two faculty members and three students [...]
Looming over the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 in Wyoming, Minn., is a grinning portrait of former President George W. Bush, asking “Miss me yet?”
At a time when President Obama’s approval ratings are cratering, the billboard appeared mysteriously, with no one claiming credit for it.
But it has raged virally across the Internet, with a Google [...]
New York Gov. David Paterson is shooting down talk that his resignation is imminent, calling “outrageous rumors” about his alleged womanizing and drug use a “callous and sleazy” assault on his character.
The Democratic governor told The Associated Press that the political and media scrutiny he’s facing won’t stop him from seeking election in the [...]
Yulia Tymoshenko, left, and Viktor YanukovychUkraine’s prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, was today under pressure to concede defeat in the country’s presidential election after international observers hailed Sunday’s poll as fair and “truly competitive”.
Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said there were no indications of serious fraud and described the vote [...]
TEHRAN (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the United States wanted a U.N. Security Council resolution “within weeks” to tackle Iran’s nuclear programme as Iran said it had begun making higher-grade nuclear fuel.
The Islamic Republic, which denies its programme has military aims, defied the international community by announcing on Sunday that it would [...]
Washington (CNN) — As Senate Democrats look to pass a jobs bill before Presidents Day, experts say the debate is an opportunity to see if calls for bipartisanship will be answered.
With high unemployment — now at 9.7 percent — and polls showing Americans desperate for economic relief, the White House and the Democratic leadership are [...]
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