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Obama: Time to turn the page in Iraq (Reuters)

Reuters - President Barack Obama declared an end to the seven-year U.S. combat mission in Iraq on Tuesday and promised recession-weary Americans "my central responsibility"
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Blasts kill 20 in Pakistan's Lahore, 170 hurt (Reuters)

Reuters - Three bombs exploded at a Shi'ite procession in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding over ...
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Biden launches new US mission in Iraq (AFP)

AFP - Vice President Joe Biden launched a new American military mission in Iraq on Wednesday, opening up a fresh phase in a seven-year deployment ...
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Judge rules against U.S. government on oil drilling (Reuters)

Reuters - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the U.S. government's request to dismiss an industry lawsuit challenging its deepwater oil and gas drilling moratorium, ...
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Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict (AP)

AP - Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about ...
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US forces still in fight at end of combat mission (AP)

AP - Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday ...
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Number of illegal immigrants in US now declining (AP)

AP - The number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades — decreasing by 8 percent ...
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John Walker Lindh seeks Ind. prison prayer ruling (AP)

AP - American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and ...
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Felon ex-pol with wild hair makes ballot in Ohio (AP)

AP - Outspoken former Democratic congressman Jim Traficant, who served time in federal prison for corruption, has fought his way back onto the Nov. 2 ...
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Is the tea party becoming the new Grand Old Party? (AP)

AP - Is the tea party the new Republican Party? The grass-roots network of fed-up conservative-libertarian voters displayed its power in its biggest triumph of ...
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