Death toll in China earthquake exceeds 12,000
The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades.
A Pole who saved 2,500 Jews dies
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Ghetto, some in baskets. On Monday, she died.
Obama, Clinton campaign in West Virginia
With Clinton heavily favored in today's primary, Obama focuses on the national race.
China's panda preserves reported safe
All the pandas at the world's most famous panda preserve were reported safe late Tuesday, more than a day after China's worst earthquake in three decades closed off the remote, mountainous area.
Immigration raid in Iowa largest ever in US
Federal officials say a raid at a northeastern Iowa meat processing plant this week was the largest in U.S. history.
Rebuilding unlikely in tornado-ravaged Okla. town
No government money will be awarded for rebuilding any of the 100 homes leveled by a deadly tornado that tore through one of the nation's most polluted areas, state and federal officials said Tuesday on a tour of the region.
Bombs kill 60 and wound 150 in western India
Bombs ripped through crowded parts of this ancient city in western India on Tuesday, killing 60 people and wounding 150, police said. The seven explosions in Jaipur took place in markets and several other areas of the city in Rajasthan, a region dotted with palaces and temples that draws hundreds of thousands of tourists every year, said A.S. Gill, the state's police chief.
Detroit City Council moves toward ousting mayor
The City Council narrowly approved taking the first step Tuesday toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is charged with perjury over explicit text messages sent to a former aide.
Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dies in Fla. at 82
Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg's mediums knew few bounds.
Ex-Georgia congressman enters race
Declaring that the major party candidates have failed to offer voters real change, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr jumped into the presidential race Monday under the Libertarian Party banner.
McCain raps Bush on warming, pledges to take lead
John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents with a free-market solution that includes capping carbon-fuel emissions.
Lawmakers push for GI Bill update
Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of college aid for military veterans since World War II.
Supreme Court punts because of justices' holdings
The Supreme Court on Monday pulled itself off an apartheid dispute involving some of the nation's largest companies because too many of the justices had investments or other ties with those corporate giants.
U.S. sleuthing rises as prosecutions fall
The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Bush tour of Mideast unlikely to bear fruit productive
President Bush sets off this week to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday, but the festivities are likely to be muted by the dimming prospects for brokering regional peace deals during the Republican administration's waning months in power.
