Michelle Obama: A Distant Daughter of Slavery

Michelle Obama, born in 1964, will be America's next first lady. When she moves into the White House in January, a mansion built partially by slaves, "she will embark upon a life her great-great-grandfather, who...

Miss Plano crowned Saturday, receives new car Tuesday

"Miss Plano crowned Saturday, receives new car Tuesday By Kim Nguyen, Staff Writer (Created: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:26 PM CST) ...

India v Australia, 3rd Test: Match ends in draw

"The third test between India and Australia at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi ended in a draw as the two sides decided that a result was not probable early in the afternoon session. Scorecard - India vs Australia - 3rd Test Earlier in the day, Gambhir and Dravid started their...

Study: U.S. suicides rising; risk high in middle age

Another sad statistic of the Bush administration will be the rise in suicides due to unemployment and foreclosures. During the depression of 1929 the suicide rate spiked and many Wall Street investors and brokers jumped from high rise buildings after the stock market crash....

Senate approves revised bailout plan

  WASHINGTON -- Update: The Senate has passed the legislation on a 74-25 vote.With both presidential candidates returning to the Capitol to lend support, the Senate was debating a modified $700-billion Wall...

American forces start ground assaults in Pakistan

After starting air strike inside Pakistan airspace now US led NATO forces have started ground assault. The ground assault has also been accompanied by stepped up air attacks by unmanned Predator drones almost every day that have killed scores of people. American are...

China Eases Internet Restrictions for Journalists

In the face of blistering criticism, the IOC has succeed in getting the Chinese government to let in some of the websites they had previously blocked.  The question is whether these will be widely trafficked...

Who Is the San Francisco Hacker?

"San Francisco Department of Technology employee Terry Childs was in a jail cell Friday, accused of illegally locking out fellow authorized network administrators from the city computer network he helped build. But as the case against Childs entered its sixth day, questions...

Welcome to Iraq, the hot new holiday destination

" It has some of the finest archaeological sites in the world and some of the holiest places in Islam - but persuading tourists to visit Iraq has to be one of the toughest jobs around. Hamood Massam...

Global warning: Melting ice threatens Arctic foxes

Some more wildlife animals are on the brink of extinction because of  global warming. "Polar bears may not be the only Arctic wildlife threatened by global warming. Scientists have discovered that Arctic foxes also struggle as the ice disappears because they rely on the...

Oil Prices tumble below $143

After continuously increasing for many weeks now fuel prices for the first time prices have fallen down. Stronger dollar is also helping in reducing the crude price. dollar has appreciated against major...

Al Qaeda out of Iraq

BigT's OPINION:"In a joint effort between the Iraqis and the Americans al Qaeda in Iraq has lost its last stronghold in the city of Mosul. Here, from the July 6th Edition of the (London) Times: "American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in...

Locked & Loaded - PCM Rejoins The Fray At Watkins Glen :: The EDJE

"Pacific Coast Motorsports' primary transporter parked alongside the Ventura County headquarters location getting filled with the tools for the rest of the 2008 ICS season. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (The EDJE)...

End of ceasefire 'imminent' as more rockets fired from Gaza

The cease-fire in Gaza appears to be all but over as more rocket attacks have been launched into Israel. It wasn't even able to last mroe than a week." Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired two mortar shells into southern Israel today, as the week-long ceasefire deal...

Gaps In McCain's Military Record Raise Questions

""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined...

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