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Coke Dealer's Gas Surcharge
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What to do when you've got nothing to do
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Lawmakers Balk at Bush Administration's Approaches to Financial Crisis, Republican and Democratic members of Congress lashed out the Bush administration as well as each other Thursday in increasingly explosive exchanges that cast blame on one another for Wall Street's recent meltdown
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The Web 2.0 Expo in New York may have the misfortune of happening during the worst week for tech companies since the collapse of the bubble and a global equities
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best of craigslist : An Apology: To the Girl in the Parking Garage
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Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space.
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Missing Caylee Anthony's Grandparents Clash With Protesters, The family of a missing Florida toddler clashed with unruly protesters on the lawn early Thursday morning, at one point turning a garden hose on the demonstrators.
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WANTED: Daniel Andreas San Diego for Eco-Terror Bombings, He grew up in a quiet suburb of San Francisco, the son of a city manager in California's affluent Marin County. Daniel Andreas San Diego, now 30, swore off drugs and drink as a young man — but the straight-edge San Diego was no straight shooter.
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Today: A Thatcher nutcracker, a Lego Amy and a Bush countdown clock.
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Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president.
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State police said somebody has made off with an electronic message sign used by the Department of Transportation to provide information to motorists on Interstate 84 in Waterbury.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. In a new TV ad that repeats widely debunked claims about the Democratic tax plan, the Republican campaign calls Obama's tax increases "painful."
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Much of the Spanish press has decided that the Republican candidate confused their nation with one of the Latin American states
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Gates Says U.S. Is Reviewing Afghanistan Strategy, The Bush administration is looking at possible changes in its war strategy in Afghanistan in light of rising levels of violence and an increasingly complex insurgent threat, Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged.
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Sarah Palin gave Charles Gibson, of the ABC television network, an exclusive interview. Here is a quote from Sarah Palin in her ABC interview: "For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable."
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Bush to Speak on Economy, President Bush will make a brief statement on the recent financial market developments at 10:15 a.m. ET Thursday, the White House said.
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The world's oldest man celebrated his
113th birthday on Thursday, telling reporters at his home in
southern Japan about his joyful life and healthy appetite.
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It wasn't the preferred way to enter the Knoxville Museum of Art, but Richard Anthony Smith told police he was on a mission. The 25-year-old Knoxville man called 911 from his cell phone before dawn Wednesday saying he was trapped in an air conditioning duct leading from the museum roof, Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.
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News and opinion about US politics from a liberal perspective
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Asked for "specific skills" she could cite to rebut critics who question her grasp of international affairs, she replied, "I am prepared."
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Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate.
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Where does Uncle Sam come up with huge sums of money during a financial emergency? Like the rest of us, the government taps its reserves and borrows if it needs more.
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The person who died in this morning's fatal accident involving two tractor-trailers, including one that spilled $182,000 in nickels on Interstate 95, was a 61-year-old man from Maryland, the Florida Highway Patrol just announced.
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JONESBORO, Ark. -- A man acquitted a month ago of robbing a bank has been arrested in another robbery at the same bank. The man, 35, was accused of robbing Liberty Bank on Tuesday, police say.
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Kazuo Kawasaki, the Japanese designer for Sarah Palin's glasses, is grateful to the Republican vice presidential candidate for making his product famous, although he acknowledged he also likes Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama.
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Imagine the right-wing media machine if Palin were a Democrat.
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Palin's password was "popcorn"
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Man who cleaned public restroom gets plunger award
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Some of Ike's Missing May Have Been Swept Out to Sea, The death toll from Hurricane Ike is remarkably low so far, considering that legions of people stayed behind as the storm obliterated row after row of homes along the Texas coast.
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A city council candidate in McCook, Neb., is apologizing for an automated phone call campaign - in advance.
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Ailing bank Washington Mutual Inc. appeared headed toward a sale Wednesday after a major investor removed a potential stumbling block and nervous banking regulators began approaching the most logical buyers.
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Comics and Editorial Cartoons on Yahoo! News
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A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect.
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Despite an intense effort to distance himself from the way his party has done business in Washington, John McCain is seen by voters as far less likely to bring change than Barack Obama.
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Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took questions with her running mate Wednesday night, offering at one point to play "stump the candidate" with a mostly friendly Michigan crowd.
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How an Eggbeater Could Power the Future, Dutch company's 'Energy Ball' is small, quiet, highly efficient windmill than homeowners can mount on their roofs.
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Many seem taken aback by the depth and severity of the current financial turmoil. I was among several economists who saw it coming and warned about the risks.
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Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin won't comply with subpoenas issued by state lawmakers investigating the firing of Alaska's former public safety commissioner because Palin "has declined to participate" in the probe, her attorney general says.
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A top Hillary Rodham Clinton fundraiser threw her support behind Republican John McCain on Wednesday, saying he will lead the country in a centrist fashion and accusing the Democrats of becoming too extreme.
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