NASA ready to launch shuttle Endeavour
2011-05-16 09:26:08
With wounded US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on hand to watch, the space shuttle Endeavour is poised to give the work week a roaring and historic start Monday morning
Republican Huckabee rules out 2012 White House run
2011-05-16 08:04:12
Republican Mike Huckabee announced on Saturday he would not seek his party's US presidential nomination in 2012
Mississippi River waters head toward homes, farmland
2011-05-16 08:04:12
Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in Louisiana
America shows off warship that buried bin Laden
2011-05-15 14:50:42
US officials welcomed visitors Sunday to the USS Carl Vinson warship, from which Osama bin Laden's body was buried at sea, but did not discuss the ultra-secretive attack that killed him.
Strauss-Kahn, power broker in Paris and Washington
2011-05-15 10:11:49
IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody on Saturday in New York and was being questioned in regard to a sexual assault, New York police said.
Huckabee rules out White House run in 2012
2011-05-15 09:18:45
Republican Mike Huckabee announced on Saturday he would not seek his party's US presidential nomination in 2012, adding uncertainty to the race to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama.
Louisiana braces as flood spillway opens
2011-05-15 08:55:05
Army engineers on Saturday opened a key spillway to allow the swollen Mississippi River to flood thousands of homes and crops but spare New Orleans and Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge.
NY police: IMF head Strauss-Kahn in custody
2011-05-15 07:43:42
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody on Saturday at JFK airport in New York and was being questioned in regard to a sexual assault, a New York police spokesman told Reuters.
US condemns terror attack in Pakistan
2011-05-14 08:12:12
The US State Department on Friday condemned a terror attack in northwest Pakistan that killed at least 68 people.
Obama says US remains committed to Mideast peace
2011-05-14 07:37:57
US President Barack Obama said on Friday that the United States as a nation remains committed to peace in the Middle East.
Facebook-Google rivalry intensifies with PR fiasco
2011-05-13 09:35:37
Facebook hired a prominent PR firm trying to plant stories harshly criticizing Google's privacy practices.
US intensifies drone aircraft attacks in Pakistan
2011-05-13 09:29:43
A US drone aircraft fired missiles at militants in Pakistan on Thursday, killing eight of them, Pakistani officials said