SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Firefighters struggled Friday against an out-of-control wildfire that destroyed at least 100 homes in a wealthy, celebrity-studded enclave, flaring up so fast that it caught some terrified residents behind the automatic gates of their mansions.
Blistering winds gusting to 70 mph, dry brush and oil-rich eucalyptus trees helped turn an ordinary brush [...]
WASHINGTON – Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama is considering former primary election rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Richardson to be his secretary of state. The officials said Obama met with Richardson Friday in Chicago, a day after meeting with Clinton.
Richardson is the governor of New Mexico and has an extensive foreign policy resume. [...]
WASHINGTON – It’s no coincidence President Bush has been out of the public’s eye in recent days — that’s the way the Republican Party wants it.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said Monday the incumbent’s invisibility is by design — because “the Republican Party wanted to make this election about John McCain.”
The president knows there [...]
WASHINGTON – A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce White House memos that provide the legal basis for the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 warrantless wiretapping program.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. signed an order Friday requiring the department to produce the memos by the White House legal counsel’s office by Nov. 17. He [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is allowed to charge taxpayers for her children’s commercial airline tickets because they represent the state wherever they go with her, the governor’s aides said Wednesday.
“There’s an expectation that the First Family participates in community activities,” said Sharon Leighow, the governor’s spokeswoman. “They are representing the First Family [...]
WASHINGTON – A combative Sen. Ted Stevens sparred curtly with prosecutors over his definition of gifts as he concluded his third day of testimony at his corruption trial Monday.
The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Stevens is charged with lying on Senate financial disclosure forms about $250,000 in renovations and other gifts he received from oil services contractor [...]
WASHINGTON – With or without a formal title, Colin Powell will have Barack Obama’s ear if the Democratic presidential candidate wins the White House in the Nov. 4 election, the candidate said Monday.
“He will have a role as one of my advisers,” Barack Obama said on NBC’s “Today” in an interview aired Monday, a day [...]
BERLIN - Angelina Jolie isn’t giving away who she’s backing in the U.S. presidential election, but she does have good things to say about Barack Obama.
The actress and activist tells the German edition of Vanity Fair that the Democratic contender for president comes down on the same side of several issues that she does. [...]
LOS ANGELES - The second presidential debate drew more viewers than the first but still proved less of a draw than the Joe Biden-Sarah Palin matchup.
A total of 63.2 million viewers watched Tuesday’s debate in Nashville, Tenn., between Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain, Nielsen Media Research said Wednesday. The figure [...]
CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq - A U.S. soldier accused in the killing of an Iraqi detainee kept the man blindfolded and bound in the back of an armored vehicle for more than two hours before taking him into the desert where he was slain, a comrade testified on Monday.
Military prosecutors have accused 1st Lt. Michael [...]
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