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The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline rose to a record high of $3.33, up one and five-tenths of a cent from the previous day's record-setting price of $3.32, AAA reported Monday.

Three people protesting China 's human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday and tied the Tibetan flag and two banners to its cables.

An administration official says President Bush will announce that he is sending a controversial free trade agreement with Colombia to Congress, a move that will force a congressional vote within 90 days.

The official said Bush will make the announcement in the White House Rose Garden. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the president had not yet spoken.

The Secret Service all but forced John McCain to accept its protection Friday, after announcing to the world the presumptive Republican nominee was unguarded.

Suspected Shiite militants lobbed rockets and mortar shells into the U.S.-protected Green Zone and a military base elsewhere in Baghdad on Sunday, killing three American troops and wounding 31, officials said.

Sen. Hillary Clinton's chief presidential campaign strategist is quitting his post amid criticism of his public relations firm's contacts with the Colombian government over a pending free-trade deal, Clinton's ...

“Without political progress, the U.S. risks getting bogged down in Iraq for a long time to come”

The United States is no closer to achieving its goals in Iraq than it was a year ago but a quick military withdrawal could lead to massive chaos and even genocide, according to a report released Sunday by a U.S. think tank.

The U.S. Institute of Peace report was written by experts who advised the Iraq Study Group, a panel mandated by Congress to offer recommendations on U.S. policy in Iraq in 2006.

The report was released two days before top commander Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker brief Congress on the situation in Iraq and prospects for American troop reductions. Their recommendations, which President Bush has signaled he will accept, could largely determine the course of action in Iraq for the coming year. Read more

US-based Creationist preacher Ken Ham is used to the problems that arise from combining what he reads in the Old Testament and what scientists tell him.

George Bush yesterday promised to send more troops to Afghanistan after his departure from the White House next year, whatever the status of troop withdrawals from Iraq.

There can be little doubt now that the government has used drugs on terrorist suspects that are designed to weaken their resistance to interrogation.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of the toll the Iraq war could take on the military.

But in fact the Soviet Union left its 15 successor states to navigate their own way to democracy and a market economy.

The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.

With the invasion of Iraq still three years in the future, Ahmad Chalabi would step into the lobby of the modern granite office building at 1801 K Street in Washington--the heart of the nation's lobbying ...

The campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama sparred Saturday after Ed Schultz, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host well-known for his blunt criticisms of the Bush Administration and the Republican ...

ranch is a compound for a polygamist group led by Warren Jeffs

Texas officials investigating a potential child abuse case said on Saturday 183 girls and women had been removed from a ranch that is home to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren ...

Gold rushes should be simple money-making schemes. Times Topics: Gold At a gold-selling party in Shelby, Mich., Heather Plouhar, right, reacts as she is paid nearly $800 for her items.

Once they discover that she is Dr. Kate, the supplicants line up to approach at dinner parties and ballet recitals.

The American military has charged a contractor with assault in a case that may emerge as a major test of the military's legal jurisdiction over civilians who accompany the armed forces into the field, military ...

The nation's employers eliminated tens of thousands of jobs for the third month in a row, the government reported Friday, and top Democrats immediately called for new measures to help suffering American ...